error 1962: no operating system found

makimu

Hello everyone :)
I’ve installed a great product batocera on USB Flash. My next step is to install the batocera on HDD of my PC. How I did it? I’ve loaded batocera from Flash then in menu settings I made a choose “Install on a new drive”. After a process was finished I shut down my PC and extracted the USB Flash. Then I turned on my PC again and now I see follow message: error 1962: no operating system found.

Possible answers on your questions

Yes, I excluded a USB Flash from boot settings.
Yes, partitions of HDD there are, I checked it.
Yes, I disabled secure boot in a BIOS.
Yes, my PC supports of UEFI loading.

My hardware - Lenovo S310.

girls and guys do you have any ideas?

Atari

makimu Wiki page says “not recommended to do this” and “no benefit over just using USB”. And this is why.

The best advice to give in this situation is to ensure that your UEFI loader can load the appropriate Batocera UEFI file. You may have to manually set this, depending on your BIOS.

mikakunin

Did you change or confirm the boot order with uefi?

makimu

Atari mikakunin Thx guys for the your answers. This video helped me to resolve the problem.
Have a good game ;)

makimu

Yes, I do.

First for boot is HDD

Atari

makimu That’s interesting, I watched the process and what he does is pretty identical to what Batocera does when flashing the OS.

The only difference is, they used MBR partitioning scheme instead of GPT. MBR (Master Boot Record) is the older format which has less support for newer filesystems and is generally not recommended.

The most likely case is that the UEFI on your motherboard is looking for a specific GPT table but is failing to find it, resulting in a “no operating system found” error. But with MBR, since it does not care as much about what is on it, it is able to find and boot it.

I’ll let the lead dev know about this, but I can assume the most likely response is going to be “we do not support buggy/faulty motherboards like that”. Thank you for your research though.

Steve88

EDIT: here below I’ve written a guide describing the solution to the video posted above.

Hi! same problem here on my Lenovo ThinkCentre M72e…
The process in that video seems to be very complicated. do you have any better advice since I disassembled the pc and so I can access hard drive via usb? thanks!

I tried with “install on a new drive”, Balena, Rufus, UEFI, legacy…with no luck.

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Textual guide describing the solution in the video posted above:

Extract the Batocera image (GZ Archive) to obtain an IMG file;
Create a bootable live USB of GParted with Rufus;
Copy the Batocera IMG file onto the USB stick containing the GParted live;
Start the GParted live on the PC with the issue;
On GParted select “Device” > “Create partition table” (Partition table type: MSDOS) and confirm;
Open the terminal (“Terminal” icon) and run the commands “sudo su” and then “losetup –partscan –find –show /run/live/medium/batocera-VERSION-x86_64-YYYYMMDD.img”, substituting the correct IMG file name (press TAB to autocomplete);
The output of the previous command will be something like “/dev/loop1”: return this output by running the command “fdisk -l /dev/loop1”: it will list the partitions in the IMG file that we will then create manually;
Right-click on the grey area in the GParted window labelled “Unallocated” > “New”, then enter the size of the first partition returned by the previous command. You can be a bit generous: if the command in the previous step returned “Size: 6G” for the first partition, you can enter 6200MB in the “New size” field. Select “FAT32” as file system;
Create a second partition having the size of all the space left: right click on “unallocated” > “New” and confirm (make sure that “New size” is valued with all the space available and that the file system is ext4);
Click on the tick and confirm to apply all changes;
From the terminal, issue the command “dd if=/dev/loop1p1 of=/dev/sda1 status=progress” to copy the first partition;
From the terminal run the command “dd if=/dev/loop1p2 of=/dev/sda2 status=progress” to copy the second partition;
On GParted: “GParted” > “Refresh devices”, then right-click on both lines and then “Check”, finally click on the check mark and confirm;
From the terminal run the command “install-mbr /dev/sda” to reinstall the MBR;
On GParted: right click on the first 6GB “Batocera” partition, then on “Manage flags”, and tick “boot” and “lba”;
Restart the computer with the terminal line command: “reboot”.