gesh, I meant /dev/sda but in my term history I do see at least one time I had /dev/sda1 I also saw the drives partitions after writing the image ... anyway, sorry about that and thanks for not making too much fun.
re-imaged the drive to make sure and I still can not boot off of it from the new Lenovo. Its my computer and not the image.
Pointers on the new laptops? Works with UFI, but turn off secure boot?