Lenovo ideapad 710S-13IKB bios/boot issue

[Gabor Szabo]

Thanks for the quick reply, at least I don't feel totally alone in this!

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:42 AM Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>
wrote:

>
> On 29/04/2020 11:35, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Since then I cannot boot the system, it does not even seem to recognize
> the harddisk properly.
>
> Can you clarify something, please? Is it only Linux, or also Windows, that
> won't boot?
>

The BIOS does not even have an option to boot into Windows any more.

Linux gets to the   grub>   prompt and I don't know how to proceed from
there.
It does not show a grub menu.


>
> Because it certainly looks like grub starts, and is able to see the disks
> (if not understand the filesystems).
>
>
> Yes, that's how I understand it.



> Some SATA/NVME devices have dual modes, settable in the BIOS. They might,
> e.g., have a RAID mode etc. Some of those modes are not supported by Linux.
> Resetting that in the BIOS should make at least your bootable DoK see the
> disk again.
>
>
> I saw that in the BIOS, I'll try that.


> What I don't understand is why your Windows would stop booting. At the
> very least, it should start the boot process and BSoD when the disk drivers
> have changed for it.
>

My understanding stop at the point why would the bios flashing make the
Windows entry disappear from the list of boot options.

Gabor
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