Hi there,
A couple days ago, I rebooted my laptop and noticed some error messages while the system was rebooting. I did not pay close attention (this turned out to be a bad decision) as I thought I could diagnose the issue once the system is rebooted.
Since then, I am not able to boot my laptop and just after powering on my laptop I get an error message as the one given below.
The boot order in the BIOS prioritizes USB and HDD/SSD over LAN, so I would assume I am getting PXE-E61 due to the BIOS cannot detect any local drives.
I am able to boot my laptop with a FreeBSD or Ubuntu memstick. I tried to write the bootstrap code into MBR by
and had
I copied my important files to another external storage by using a Ubuntu live USB, hence I assume my SSD/HDD connections are okay (?). However, pressing F12 to select the boot device after powering on the laptop does not show any local drives, just LAN and USB if a memstick is attached.
Is my BIOS failing to detect local drives or my local drives are dead (both at the same time? and I can mount and copy files from them). Any recommendations or workaround suggestions are welcome!
Thanks
A couple days ago, I rebooted my laptop and noticed some error messages while the system was rebooting. I did not pay close attention (this turned out to be a bad decision) as I thought I could diagnose the issue once the system is rebooted.
Since then, I am not able to boot my laptop and just after powering on my laptop I get an error message as the one given below.
Code:
Intel(R) Boot Agent CE v.1.3.66
Copyright (C) 1997-2010, Intel Corporation
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F : Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
Insert system disk in drive.
Press any key when ready....
I am able to boot my laptop with a FreeBSD or Ubuntu memstick. I tried to write the bootstrap code into MBR by
Code:
# gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ada0
bootcode written to ada0
, so I think gpart(8) did its job well. However, this did not fix my problem.I copied my important files to another external storage by using a Ubuntu live USB, hence I assume my SSD/HDD connections are okay (?). However, pressing F12 to select the boot device after powering on the laptop does not show any local drives, just LAN and USB if a memstick is attached.
Is my BIOS failing to detect local drives or my local drives are dead (both at the same time? and I can mount and copy files from them). Any recommendations or workaround suggestions are welcome!
Thanks