Why am I getting No bootable device error?

Hi
I restarted my Mac and out of nowhere it now comes up with the error "No bootable device......press any key"
I have managed to get on my mac by holding alt and it works fine when I am on, however I don't want to do this everytime I log in and I am concerned by this.
My mac is new and has been working fine, the only thing I can think of was Netflix wasn't working so I installed microsoft silverlight and then restarted computer few hours afterwards and this happened.
How can I stop this? Tried a few things and although the mac appears to work fine it is worrying. The drive and everything is fine, so bit confused

Hold down the option key at the startup chime and select your OS X startup volume from the array of icons that appears. After logging in, open the Startup Disk preference pane and select the volume again. Then fix your Boot Camp installation, or delete it in Boot Camp Assistant.
If the above steps don't solve the problem, reset the PRAM.

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I'm hoping someone can help me out here. Last night, I went to set my A305 laptop down on the coffee table. During the motion, my dog, which I was stepping over, jumped up and took off which almost knocked me over. When this happened, I lost my grip on the computer and dropped it onto the coffee table at a height of about 2-3 feet. It was in standby mode so I pressed the button to wake it back up to see if I damaged it. The Internet Explorer session I was previously in pulled up, but nothing would happen when I clicked on any browser buttons or links. I shut down the computer and upon restarting, I got the black screen with "TOSHIBA" in red, as usual, and then I got a black screen with this error message: For Realtek RTL8101E/8102E PCI-E Ethernet Controller v1.07 (080320)PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, check cablePXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROMNo bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key I couldn't get it to do anything else at all, even after several shut down attempts. Does anyone know what could be causing this to happen? Is it a hard drive malfunction as a result from the drop? The unit had worked perfectly for a little over a year up until this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Possible, yes. Can you do it at home, no. Due to the clearances involved you need to do this in a special clean room as the slightest piece of dust or debri that is normally floating around in the air would ruin the platters that the data is stored on. If the drive won't work you'll need to send it to a professional data recovery service to have them do it and the cost of something like that starts at about a grand and goes up depending on the specifics. But before we go there you need to determine if the problem is for sure the hard drive. Enter the bios and check to see if it is even being recognized or not. Also, take the hard drive out and boot to a self booting CD/DVD like a Linux Live CD to verify that the rest of the system is working properly. If it isn't, then the problem might not be the hard drive itself (although the chances of that are about the same as winning the lottery). If the laptop had been off there is a good chance that it would have survived and still worked. But anytime a rotating hard drive sustains any sort of impact shock the chances of it sustaining damage are about 98%.

I liveCDed linux for a moment, now i get no bootable device, must OPTION

problem; i can no longer boot without pressing the OPTION key and manually choosing a macOS volume.
this happens now after;
i booted a mandriva linux liveCD, just to check it out, and now, when i boot my macpro2,1 i get a black screen with white letters saying;
no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key
so i force powerdown, reboot with the OPTION key, and get my choice of macOS harddrives that will boot almost normally.
i say almost, because before i get the gray apple screen, my Highpoint eSata PCIe card gives me a blue menu screen of their BIOS setting utility v.2.3, 'please wait...' for about 8 seconds.
After that, my monitors go through auto-sensing, as if macOS forgets its previous video settings.
Its as if the machine is now geared to search for a bootable system on my external eSata drives and ignores the internal drives. This is odd because in principle, this PCIe card isn't boot capable under macOS.
I'm guessing, linux modified or replaced the highpoint driver for the card. the volumes mount no problem. But i did lose one of the hard drives. I had to reformat it. Bizarre since i didn't install anything, just booted off the CD.
So now, i have to press OPTION to manually select either leopard or snow.
what has happened?
i have a macpro 2,1 (2007)
with a highpoint 2314 PCIe eSata card

i didn't even think to try that, because my machine doesn't care what i choose, it chooses another one half the time. But for this problem, it worked.
i still would like to know what happened, though. Is there a boot director cache, that 'remembered' the last kernel (linux) booted?
And why does snow leopard appear as 'EFI boot' (when i press OPTION to boot) while leopard appears normal ; 10.5.8

No Bootable Device Error when trying to bootcamp!

Hey guys I have been trying to bootcamp on and off for the past month or so now. Anyway I downloaded a windows 7 x32 bit iso from Microsoft's website. I then used Burn to burn it to a disc by doing: Copy> Dragging the image in> Mount and then right clicking on the image on the desktop and clicking burn to disc. Not bootcamp itself worked fine, a bit slow, but i managed to make a 100gb partition. Now whenever I try to boot into windows, I get the dreadfull "No bootable device - insert a bootable device and press any key"
I know the .iso is valid because i succesfully made a Parallels V<M with it, but parallels is too slow for skyrim.
I think its also important to note that I have using an external optical drive, since my dad got gum in it XD.
Anyways help is VERY MUCH appreciated! If you need anymore info, just ask.

Okay so I found a similar tutorial, only a little more detailed. This can be found here: http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/2011/2156
So I follow the instructions to a tee, but when I try to start the installation of the VM, I get a "Missing Operating System" Error.
Anyways Heres what I did:
Went to terminal and typed this in:
mkdir Virtual\ Machines
/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator print /dev/disk0
Then This:
/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/disk0 3 windows7 ide
SO I enter those right in terminal as is and hit enter. Then I search using spotlight and found two files:
windows7-pt.vmdk and windows7.vmdk
So I follow the instructiopns again and I think I might be messing up at this step:
" You’ll then be taken to the Customize Settings screen, where you want to configure the ISO to boot from. Click on the CD/DVD (IDE) option [...]
And then select the location of your Windows 7 ISO:"
SO I choose my windows 7 x32 iso FIle and just close the window. Am I missing anything?

Why am I getting No bootable device error?

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