in any situation where booting the hard disk is amis i reach for a thumb drive and boot that. usually the latest ubuntu iso will boot most anything that isn't bleeding edge iron, tho yes there are situations where you need to get an extra driver, and if so it can be put on the same thumb drive. hopefully that will do it, else you get busy with googling. from the iso you can simply use grub-install (ubuntu) or grub2-mkconfig (centos) to install a bootstrap, or do a sparkling fresh complete install, without wiping out whatever you might want to keep if you know what you're doing, and once it's bootable you can setup dual- or multi-booting, even all within the same partition, per our prior exchange. while indeed most of this deviates from the "normal" install instructions, you can find the howto's, or keep asking if uncertain. On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 6:22 PM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote: > Please remove previous - ---a serious spelling error!!!! > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> > Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 6:20 PM > Subject: How do I ?????? > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > Greetings > > I bought myself a refurbished computer that had MS Win10 Pro on a 500 > GB drive and it has NO optical drive, would need to change the bezel > to add in an optical drive so I'm trying to set up without using my > 'normal' install technique. > > Had another 1TB drive that I put Debian testing (10) on another > system. Removed from that system and installed into the HP PRODesk (G1 > SFF if that makes a difference). > > Can't seem to get the bios to recognize the hdd. System is uefi and > the drive was set up using gparted and there is an efi partition. > > Any idea on how to kick the system in the pants so that it will boot > off the hard drive? > > > (Maybe I need to put SystemRescueDisk on a usb stick and then prod > this and poke that to get things to work? (I haven't done this before > so a point to what I would be prodding and poking would help.) > > (Real egg on face now!! - - -edit to change is to isn't) > I'm hoping that this isn't one of those real 'a$$hat' kind of questions. > > TIA > > Dee > -- this concludes test 42 of big bang inflation dynamics. in the advent of an actual universe, further instructions will be provided. 000000000000000000000042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180930/0e05a04d/attachment.html>