Must manually select boot drive each restart

g13092 · 14. Januar 2021

I recently moved my system drive over to an ssd. Like a dummy, I bought an ssd a little smaller than the original system drive. After a bunch of goofing around with clonezilla, I was able to get the machine running on the ssd, but with one exception - during the boot process, I have to use the bios boot selector function (hit F8 on this machine) to select the ssd for boot. Only then will it start normally. If I don't do this step, I just get a single blinking cursor, nothing else happens or can be done, expect cycle power. The bios recognizes the ssd and allows me to set it in the boot order priority list. I've removed other drives from the boot order list.

You'll see below that the boot flag is set on sda. The only thing that stands out to me is that sda has a disklabel type of dos, while the others are gpt. BTW, sdf is a usb drive for a backup that is running right now. It's normally not connected when booting.

Any ideas on how I can get it to boot without user intervention?

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root@openmediavault:/boot/grub# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdc: 698.7 GiB, 750156374016 bytes, 1465149168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD7501AALS-0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: C460216C-AF14-42F1-91BB-4D3BF242F15B

Device     Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdc1   2048 1465149134 1465147087 698.7G Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sda: 223.6 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors
Disk model: KINGSTON SA400S3
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x8f80a8c1

Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *     2048 468860927 468858880 223.6G 83 Linux


Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: HGST HTS725050A7
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 0801C8B4-29CA-4C06-8CB5-DAC27C1ACE18

Device     Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdb1   2048 976773134 976771087 465.8G Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sdd: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Disk model: ST3000VN007-2AH1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F3AEA2A6-9956-4DBA-9FC7-3F66182DD3A5

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdd1   2048 5860533134 5860531087  2.7T Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sde: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Disk model: ST3000VN007-2AH1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 56FAA69E-F823-48E6-8DCB-48CC486BDEDA

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sde1   2048 5860533134 5860531087  2.7T Linux filesystem




Disk /dev/sdf: 4.6 TiB, 5000947302400 bytes, 9767475200 sectors
Disk model: easystore 2647
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D5BF422F-2F3C-462A-AC17-73BBE8596A19

Device     Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdf1   2048 9767473151 9767471104  4.6T Microsoft basic data

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KM0201 · 14. Januar 2021

Have you updated grub?.. That would be the first thing I would try..

From the command line as root update-grub

Reboot and see if it boots your OS drive automatically

g13092 · 14. Januar 2021

Hi KM0201. I did do update-grub. It completed without error, but did not boot automatically at reboot.

KM0201 · 15. Januar 2021

Hmm, out of ideas after that one. Is the SSD connected via USB? Maybe see if you can manually set the boot sequence in the BIOS?

mat-m · 15. Januar 2021

Try to go in your BIOS and check the Hard Drive order (usually in a Boot section) to tell the BIOS which one hosts the boot sector.

On my Asus MoBo, it looks like this

HTH

g13092 · 16. Januar 2021

I'll be rebooting sometime this weekend. I'll try to grab some screens to show how the bios is set. I've messed around with various boot order combinations. Also, the drive is direct connected to the first SATA port, not via usb.

Thanks!

mat-m · 16. Januar 2021

Zitat von g13092

I'll be rebooting sometime this weekend. I'll try to grab some screens to show how the bios is set. I've messed around with various boot order combinations. Also, the drive is direct connected to the first SATA port, not via usb.

Thanks!

In my BIOS, I can switch the USB one but also the 3 connected SATA.

Let's see how it goes

g13092 · 16. Januar 2021

Well, I should delete this thread. Feeling pretty silly for as long as I've been goofing around with computers....

In this pic

you can see the kingston is not even available as a boot drive in the priority list. Yet, I could select it from the bios boot pop-up menu when you hit f8 (gives you a selector menu, but not loading the whole bios menu)

In this pic,

you can see the kingston listed last. I've never used this menu before on this machine. The drives were always all available in the former list, so I never needed to go here. But I also never had 5 drives. I moved the kingston up to 1st drive, it became available in the priority list, I set it as 1st priority, problem solved.

I still don't get the need for this 'second' list, but whatever. Thank you guys for making me look closer at the bios. I was so sure I mucked something up when moving them image over from the old hd to the ssd...

mat-m · 17. Januar 2021

I don't know why, but BIOS is not able to switch to more than one HDD.

As I said in my previous message, you need to tell it which one hosts the boot sector. It assumes it is the first one by default which is a good behaviour.

but we, geeks, are not using any defaults, right ?

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