Strange booting problem

[jd1008]

On 06/30/2015 04:54 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I just set Vbox boot order to HD > CD/DVD. And added a new blank VDI
> for the HD, and a Fedora 22 Live CD ISO for the CD. And it boots from
> the CD. So the HD is clearly skipped.
>
> If I partition the HD with fdisk with a single partition and no boot
> flag, I get the same result. So clearly this BIOS is also
> ignoring/skipping the HD when bootloader code in the first 440 bytes
> is absent but otherwise has a valid signature and partition
> information.
>
> If I partition a new blank VDI with parted, boot hangs indefinitely
> with no error message.
>
>
> Chris Murphy
Well, clearly we are comparing the behaviors of 2 very different bioses.