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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>On Behalf Of Larry Shields<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>Well I went ahead and reinstalled ubuntu 10.10,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>now when it boots I am getting this:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>Reboot and Slect proper Boot device or insert <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>Boot media in slected Boot device and press a key_<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>Well now I have disabled the floppy drive & the CD-Rom <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>drive the boot sequence is only 1 HDD whcih was saved <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>in the setup bios, so why in the world is this happening...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>I have never had a problem like this before, and it is <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>beating me to death, too many hours spending on it, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>trying to figure out why it will not boot correctly...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>>Anyone have any idea...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ooops, sent too soon…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I was wondering what size hard drive it is, and whether the sata option 'AHCI' is set in the bios? It's likely that 10.10 supports AHCI, but you could always set it for sata, or native IDE, or IDE or whatever the option is called on yours. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Did you say Disk Utility says the disk is healthy? And this is the only hard drive in the system?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></body></html>