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Ubuntu Server installed from USB puts GRUB on the USB drive instead of the hard disk

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Mar 15, 202626316 views
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I've just tried installing Ubuntu Server onto my new PC. The PC doesn't have a CD ROM drive, just USB, so I used a USB installation of Ubuntu Server. When I install it, it allocates as being my USB pen, and as my hard drive. I set up my partitions on the hard drive including boot and swap partition…

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dev/sda

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Fix for: Ubuntu Server installed from USB puts GRUB on the USB drive instead of the hard disk

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You can manually install GRUB onto a device if it was installed to the wrong place by issuing after booting and logging into your Ubuntu installation if that is even possible (as it seems from your question). However if it's not possible to boot the…

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