No boot device found. Press any key to continue
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I took out the hard drive from my Dell Latitude E5420 notebook, put in an ADATA S599 solid state drive, and installed Ubuntu 11.10.
When I boot, the Dell BIOS splash screen appears with a progress bar, which quickly fills up, and the screen goes black. All of this is like it was before. At this point, the OS splash screen should fade in. Instead, I was dismayed to see simply the following, in white text on a black screen:
No boot device found. Press any key to continue
After looking around for the Any key (just kidding) I press a key, and the Dell BIOS splash screen appears again with a progress bar, which quickly fills up, and the screen goes black. This time, however, the Ubuntu splash screen shows up, Ubuntu opens up, and all is normal.
Every time I shut down, however, this happens again. It's like a game the computer and I play together. The computer has never started up without first saying:
No boot device found. Press any key to continue
and it has always started up after I press any key to continue.
It also starts up fine if I click Restart instead of Shut Down. Thoughts?
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