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On a Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop, after doing a clean install of Ubuntu I get the error "no operating system found".


This is the first thing I see when booting the computer, there is nothing printed before.


I installed Ubuntu as "erase disk and install Ubuntu". There is no other OS on the disk.


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Boot mode in BIOS is set to UEFI. I've set this mode before booting from USB and installing the system.


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Hardware:



  • Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p

  • only one HDD - WDC WDS240G2G0A (240GB SSD), which was working fine with Windows just before installing Ubuntu

  • Intel i5-3470T, 8GB RAM


What am I missing?


More details about the partitioning that was created:


Ubuntu Disks app


fdisk:


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 223.58 GiB, 240065183744 bytes, 468877312 sectors
Disk model: WDC WDS240G2G0A-
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D018D616-4492-4595-8654-4C4C81B0DBB5

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1050624 468875263 467824640 223.1G Linux filesystem

gdisk:


ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.8

Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 468877312 sectors, 223.6 GiB
Model: WDC WDS240G2G0A-
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): D018D616-4492-4595-8654-4C4C81B0DBB5
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 468877278
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 4029 sectors (2.0 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 1050623 512.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition
2 1050624 468875263 223.1 GiB 8300

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Thank you for all your help, this was very interesting. My machine had an old BIOS, which did NOT expose an option to disable "Compatibility support Module".


Only after updating BIOS the option showed up (as Enabled by default). When I disabled it, Ubuntu boots fine.


So if someone comes here with the similar problem - if you don't see this option in BIOS, try to update it first.


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