Strange booting problem

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Wed Jun 24 23:57:49 UTC 2015


On 06/24/2015 04:25 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> Laptop: Dell Latitude E6510.
>
> OS: F20 with all updates
>
> Grub installed on sda.
>
> Power up ,and after bios's internal works, I do not get the grub menu.
> All I get is an empty screen with the underscore cursor blinking at
> upper left corner.
>
> Reboot.
>
> Press F12 to get the BIOS boot menu.
>
> Select Internal HDD
>
> Boots just fine.

Looks like the BIOS' concept of the primary boot drive is different
than "internal HDD". Check the boot order on the BIOS.
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