[Nix-dev] BootDevice Not Found

[Michael Raskin]

>No ideas, in your place I'd consider switching to UEFI...

I would separately wonder whether telling BIOS to use legacy boot mode
is adequately processed by BIOS or simply doesn't work…

>On Wed, Dec 17, 2014, 12:38 AM Dejan Lukan <evangeline.eleanor at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Recently I've installed NixOS on my new HP Ultrabook 850 Laptop, but I
>> cannot boot into the system. Whenever I restart the
>> livecd NixOS distribution, I get the following error message:
>>
>>   BootDevice Not Found
>>   Please install an operating system on your hard disk.
>>   Hard Disk - (3F0)
>>
>> But if I boot from CD and choose "Boot from hard drive", the Grub from
>> original hard drive opens, which verifies that the bootloader
>> is present on the /dev/sda. I'm relatively sure it's a BIOS problem, but I
>> have a hard time figuring what could be wrong. I've disabled
>> the RAID (and use AHCI) and the legacy booting mode is selected (not
>> UEFI). Therefore grub1 should work fine as is installed on /dev/sda.