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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: HB9RYZ on Sep 08, 2024, 02:58 PM

Title: ERROR: could not find or open bootloader
Post by: HB9RYZ on Sep 08, 2024, 02:58 PM
my PhantomSDR Plus is not working anymore - c'ant find bootloader - I did a new installation but still does not work :-(

Title: Re: ERROR: could not find or open bootloader
Post by: Bas ON5HB on Sep 08, 2024, 03:29 PM
Did you change the bootsystem from/to UEFI to OLD or vise versa? Then Grub won't work.

Check your BIOS for activated bootsystem.

Often gets you by suprise :'(

Also, when it's set to UEFA, your harddisk must have a FAT UEFI partition, if you don't have it, UEFI mode will not start.


Ok, had the same problem....check lsusb see if the RX888 is still seen, I had the same issue just now, needed to reconnect the RX888.

Title: Re: ERROR: could not find or open bootloader
Post by: HB9RYZ on Sep 08, 2024, 03:56 PM
Thanks BAS - Gianni helped me - Problem solved - the RX888 was not recogniced by the PC - Hard boot PC - solved :-)
Title: Re: ERROR: could not find or open bootloader
Post by: Bas ON5HB on Sep 08, 2024, 04:34 PM
Well this isn't good if it's gone from the USB-port, this happened to me too and a few days later it died.

Did your RX888 had the thermal-mod? If no, stop using it and modify it first....else it WILL die soon.
Title: Re: ERROR: could not find or open bootloader
Post by: HB9RYZ on Sep 08, 2024, 07:23 PM
OK, I can't proof it, because my RX888 is at the remote site at 1'660m. But I will decrease die speed from 60 Mbit/s to 58 Mbit/s. I was using first my RX888 always with 58 Mbit/s and never had issues that time.
Title: Re: ERROR: could not find or open bootloader
Post by: HB9RYZ on Sep 09, 2024, 10:23 AM
I installed today a large CPU heatsink on my RX888 at home and am now running it for a few days with sps 60000000. Let's see if it crashes.

Strange, I can not upload pictures !!!  The JPEG File is only 22 kBytes in size. Error message: Server responded with 500 code 0.3 MB

73 de HB9RYZ
Wolfgang
Title: Re: ERROR: could not find or open bootloader
Post by: Bas ON5HB on Sep 09, 2024, 11:51 AM
Stupid shoutbox prevented the upload of attachments....how silly is that?

I have remove the shout for now until I find one that doesn't hinder attachments.