Startup/boot error

My computer must have shut down on its own and when it tried to boot back up it has an error message that says "cannot boot from any device" and then it lists the current boot order and device statuses. Each of the options say that either the device is not found or there is no operating system. I tried to modify the boot order but that didn't work either and my computer won't turn on any further than this error screen. HELP!

which machine model are we talking about here?
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Jin Li
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Roam has made a good catch.
It looks like the long lag begins from Software Update. (Booting in Verbose mode or looking in system.log might give more clues as to what's going on.) Is Sys Prefs>Software Update set to automatically check for, or download, updates (daily?) If it is, it may, for some reason, be getting hung up there. Uncheck that preference and see what the boot time looks like.
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Welcome to Apple Discussions
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I agree with Tripredacus,we seem to miss the important part that we should boot from the UEFI mode for a GPT format disk.To boot from the UEFI mode:
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2.When the firmware starts to initialize, press the key that opens the UEFI firmware boot device menu, such as Esc, F2, F9, F12.
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh265131(v=ws.10).aspx
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