[Solved] Boot only from SSD

Hello
I have installed arch about 10 months ago (on a HP laptop), and the idea was like so:
- SSD - kernel, home, and stuff
- HDD - stuff (and some bindings)
I got it working,but if I remove the HDD, I can't boot. I get the message "no drives detected" (or something like that)
So I'd like to boot from the SSD only.
Both drives are GPT, ext4 partitions (no swap), see:
http://imgur.com/8C6UPGk
Any hints on what I can do to fix that?
Also, afaik I'm not using UEFI, i'll upload a pic of the bios in a minute.
EDIT:
http://imgur.com/lCsvBib
Thank you all.
Cheers.
EDIT-SOLUTION:
This is a Pavilion Ultrabook 14-b006sa
2 hard drives (ssd and hdd), they're united if they are under secure boot (if i'm not mistaken), but it CAN run only on SSD. It was a tricky thing, but got it working with Gummiboot, EFI. the partitionning scheme was not the best one for grub, so I settled with a 512 MiB space for FAT32, and do the thing.
Last edited by ubunchu (2014-02-20 15:34:11)

alphaniner wrote:
It's simply that the bios (computer) itself doesn't see the SSD drive alone. If the other HDD is present, no problems.
You're saying the SSD doesn't show up at all if the HDD isn't present? Are you sure about this? It's not a matter of having installed your bootloader on the HDD or something?
I have grub installed on the SSD. And yes, I just removed the HDD again, went into the boot menu, and I only had "boot from EFI file" and the live usb i inserted.
Neburski wrote:
ubunchu wrote:I got it working,but if I remove the HDD, I can't boot. I get the message "no drives detected" (or something like that)
Maybe a stupid question but are you sure that you don't have a hybrid drive (SSD + HDD) and thus when you disconnect the HDD you actually also disconnected the SSD?
I'm going of the fact that you seem to be using a laptop and to me it makes sense that laptops would be using a hybrid drive to preserve space.
Anyway in case I'm wrong. You should post the output that ANOKNUSA asked for.
I just re-checked, it's "boot device not found, please install an operating system on your hard disk. gard disk <3F0>
The SSD isn't being detected, so it might be a hybrid thing... Or maybe it's just a wrong partitioning for grub.
WonderWoofy wrote:
I am thinking that this is an mSATA SSD that the windows environment would have used as a cache for the HDD.  If that is the case, there may be no way around it.  I too have one of these mSATA slots, though I have never tried to boot with that as the only thing in the machine.
I think this may just be in the firmware design.
Edit: On second thought... if you aren't using that ~30GB ESP to boot the machine, are you sure that grub is actually installed to the SSD?  If it is, then the machine should at least be able to get to the grub prompt I would think.  Even then though, you still don't have anything on the SSD to get yourself any further, so I'm not entirely sure what the point of this excercise is.
When I got this laptop, it merged both HDD's into RAID.
It is installed on the SSD, I just re-checked from a live environment, mounted it, and /boot is there.
I'm quite sure there is a problem with the grub-mbr-gpt setup....
What info would be relevant to post?

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