Booting error

[C.Tresenriter]

On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 14:56 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> C.Tresenriter wrote:
> > I've just transferred the hardware from what was a working machine
> > into another case and installed 14.10 on a 160 GB sata drive.
> > On rebooting the message I got was something like... system disk
> > error. Insert system disk blah blah blah.
> > There are two identical disks in the machine and I ran the install on
> > each of them.
> > Obviously the installer recognized the hard drive and I see it during
> > post but the bios does not show any disk installed unless I choose the
> > setup raid option, then both disks show up.
> 
> Were both disks present when you installed to the two disks? If that was 
> the case, it might be that the installer both times wrote the boot 
> loader to the one disk which the BIOS doesn't use as the boot disk. Then 
> the instructions on this page should help:
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair>
> 
> 
> Nils
Yes they were both present during each attempt.
Each time I chose the disk I was installing on for the bootloader.
I'd forgotten to mention that I did try boot-repair but now that you
mention it the version I have was d/l'd long ago, I'll get the latest
version just in case..
There's probably something else I've forgotten too.
I've been playing with it on and off for a couple weeks now.