installing fedora on HEWLETT PACKARD pavilion 500

[Chris Murphy]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Angelo Moreschini
<mrangelo.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> I already had some problem to install fedora on HP pavilion 500, but at last
> I was able to finish the installation.
>
> I got the message: "installation complete" and so I did the shutdown.
>
> The computer closed regular,
> (the system is going down for power out at ...)
> but when I try to open it again, I find this message on the screen:
> -------------------------
> boot device not found
>
> please install an operating system on your hard disk
>
> Hard DISK - (3F0)
> F2 - System Diagnostics
>
> for more information visit the site
> http://h18021.www1.hp.com/helpandsupport/hp-self-support.html
> ----------------------------
>
> The site don't explain nothing about a problem connected with linux
>
> and after running diagnostic I get the message :
> ERROR: no boot disk has been detected

Curious. This is the 3rd such report in just a couple months,
including myself. In my case it was intermittent though and Dell
support concluded either logic board or SSD flakiness; and also mine
was a dual boot scenario and sometimes happened even with Windows only
installed on the system (and all Fedora NVRAM entries cleared).

The fact that your on-board diagnostic doesn't see a drive suggests a
hardware problem. But I wonder if there's something (efbootmgr +
kernel tickling the firmware's NVRAM?) about Fedora that's instigating
this? Or if it's just coincidence. I guess the sample size isn't big
enough to know.

What happens if you boot from install media, and capture both
dmesg
efiboomgr -v
?

In my case, dmesg clearly showed the lack of proper ACPI
initialization, no drive was found at all.

-- 
Chris Murphy