"Operation system not found" when installing 13.04

installation 13.04 dell

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Solution 1

Well, running fdisk again, to write a fresh partition table after having wiped it along with the MBR, seems to have done the trick. I am now able to boot the live DVD/USB key and get started on Ubuntu 13.04 installation.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Solution 2

You need to set your SATA mode to AHCI instead of RAID in you BIOS. Also make sure you remove the RAID meta-data:

sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sda
sudo dmraid -E -r /dev/sdb

Now reinstall Ubuntu, and you should be fine.

Keep in mind that any other operating system won't work anymore after this.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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CommonsWare over 1 year

I am attempting to install 13.04 on a Dell XPS 15 (L502X), onto an Intel SSD. I have run shred to wipe the contents of the SSD, so I should be starting from a clean slate, and my objective is for Ubuntu to use the entire drive. Note, though, that I had an older Ubuntu installation on this SSD prior to running shred.

However, from both a amd64 DVD and an amd64 boot USB key (created using Startup Disk Creator from the downloaded ISO), I get "Operation system not found" when I attempt to boot. If I try booting from something else (e.g., an old SysRescue Linux mini-CD), it boots fine, so the issue is not that the L502X cannot boot from external media.

I even double-checked that the MBR on the SSD was wiped by using dd. Still no luck.

Any suggestions?

(and to those editing the title, no this is not a typo in my question)

Thanks!

UPDATE: Replacing the SSD with another hard drive (one with Windows 7 on it) allows the USB key to boot. Hence, the problem is with the SSD. The SSD itself seems fine -- SysRescue Linux sees it. However, there's something on it that is preventing the Ubuntu 13.04 live DVD/USB from booting, for some reason.
- psusi over 10 years
  
  Run this script and edit the results into your question: sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript
- CommonsWare over 10 years
  
  @psusi: I cannot run the script, as I do not have a non-Ubuntu bootable Linux environment handy that is capable of accessing either the Internet or a thumb drive from which I can load the script in question.
- ubfan1 over 10 years
  
  Did you md5sum check the downloaded iso? See help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM Check the number against the listing in the link for your release listed at releases.ubuntu.com under the MD5SUMS link.
- CommonsWare over 10 years
  
  @ubfan1: md5sum checks out fine, but thanks!
CommonsWare over 10 years

My Dell XPS L502X notebook does not have a RAID option -- it was already set to ACHI. Running dmraid -E -r /dev/sda reports No RAID disks and with names: "/dev/sda", which fits. Thanks, though!
Joren over 10 years

My HP laptop does, so thats where my assumption came from.