"No Bootable Device"

[djBon2112]

I get this error trying to boot off an SATA hard drive on my Intel BOXD945GCNL. Regardless of the BIOS configurations, with just the HDD in, it won't boot.

Now, here's the kicker. If I plug in a CDROM drive, it works (will boot from CDROM). If I put my Ubuntu CD in the drive, and press "Boot from first hard disk", the Linux install on the disk boots fine.

Suggestions?

 

[sabregen]

I'd double check your boot device priority in BIOS. this definately sounds very strange. Perhaps your boot loader on the drive got borked? Maybe redo the boot loader?

 

[BinarySynapse]

Have you changed your SATA ports from IDE to AHCI or RAID lately? or did you pull the drive off of a different motherboard?

 

[djBon2112]

Have you changed your SATA ports from IDE to AHCI or RAID lately? or did you pull the drive off of a different motherboard?

Brand new drive, but here's the thing: I thought that too (the IDE/AHCI issue), but my board's BIOS doesn't seem to have an option for this anywhere! The board is in my sig, if anyone knows where in the BIOS this option is.

And, it can't be the bootloader. I've installed it twice, and even then, the BIOS should at least DETECT it and go to GRUB (even if it's failing), not throw me errors that there's no bootable devices at all.