Dave.YNA
April 27th, 2012, 09:03 AM
Hello Everybody,
I am having a strange grub issue and would like to see if anyone can offer some wisdom.
In a nutshell after installing 12.04 alongside Windows I do not get an option to boot into Ubuntu at start up. Now I know this is not new to the forums but where my issue slightly differs is that it appears that grub has installed to my Pen Drive which I used to install the OS.
- If I boot normally, I go straight to windows
- If I change the boot order and put my USB stick in, it boots to GRUB and I can select the OS.
- Another strange thing is I am not able to boot into the "liveCD" on the stick.
- To make sure I had not installed the OS on the pen drive by mistake I checked my partions on my hard drive and also check the free space available on the stick before and after installing some new programs / language packs etc and the pen drive has the same amount of space so I can only assume it Ubuntu installed correctly and there is an issue with grub.
Any advice to install grub to the correct place?
I saw the boot-repair app listed on another post but was not sure if it would be applicable to me given the USB drive curve ball.
Cheers
I am having a strange grub issue and would like to see if anyone can offer some wisdom.
In a nutshell after installing 12.04 alongside Windows I do not get an option to boot into Ubuntu at start up. Now I know this is not new to the forums but where my issue slightly differs is that it appears that grub has installed to my Pen Drive which I used to install the OS.
- If I boot normally, I go straight to windows
- If I change the boot order and put my USB stick in, it boots to GRUB and I can select the OS.
- Another strange thing is I am not able to boot into the "liveCD" on the stick.
- To make sure I had not installed the OS on the pen drive by mistake I checked my partions on my hard drive and also check the free space available on the stick before and after installing some new programs / language packs etc and the pen drive has the same amount of space so I can only assume it Ubuntu installed correctly and there is an issue with grub.
Any advice to install grub to the correct place?
I saw the boot-repair app listed on another post but was not sure if it would be applicable to me given the USB drive curve ball.
Cheers