(note to the other subscribers who already answered: thanks a lot for your suggestions about erasing CMOS and so on, I'll try them tomorrow and report). With respect to this: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 16:11:21 PM -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > Fedora 16 switched to using GPT partition tables on new disks, and > some BIOSes refuse to boot GPT-labeled disks. > > Try running another install, adding "nogpt" to the kernel command > line. but is this hypothesis compatible with the fact that the BIOS _does_ boot when I tell it to boot from HD after pressing F10, see my original message? The problem isn't that it can't ever boot. It is that, in a nutshell, the BIOS doesn't _remember_ that I had hit F2, told it to boot from the hard drive first and "saved" that setting. TIA, Marco -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
