SDB:BIOS notifies: NO ACTIVE PARTITION FOUND

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Symptom

After the installation the BIOS notifies: NO ACTIVE PARTITION FOUND

Cause

The active flag was not set to one of the partitions during the installation. For older mainboards this flag is also necessary.

Solution

Set this flag manually by the use of fdisk. Then start the rescue system and log in as user root.

With the command fdisk -l you are able to figure out the device name of your hard drive.

Here an example: An IDE hard drive is connected at the primary IDE controller as Master:

fdisk /dev/hda

Please type in successively:

a to activate the partition
1 to choose the first partition
w to write the changes

It is irrelevant for which partition the active flag is set.