Can't boot notebook from SSD

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 4:20 PM, compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> wrote:
> On 05/14/2017 04:57 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>
> The weight and speed
> differences /should/ make it worthwhile, but I'm beginning to wonder
> if it wasn't just a complete waste of money, time andeffort.
>
>
> Is it a new ssd? have you ever written a partition type? either mbr or gpt?
> that often has to be done with new drives. You can boot gparted to do it.
>
> Seems to me, a common thread in all this is that you are manually creating
> partitions.
>
> Have you tried allowing ubuntu to create the partitions? I'm not a fan of
> LVM, so I tend to select 'use entire disk'. the one that wipes everything.
>
> if it installs and boots, you can always reverse engineer how the ubuntu
> developers do it, and then create your own version.

Good point.  I've been doing this so long I didn't try that one.
Since it's going to be the root drive (only), it makes perfect sense.

Thanks.  I'll let y'all know what happens.