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Hi all,

I've seen quite a few threads on this now, and I had the problem myself.

Basically, you can boot into LiveCD and there are no problems during installation, but when you reboot (and...

It said the same to me, only the USB stick was /dev/sda/ and the actual HDD was assigned /dev/sdb/ :)

Above post is only somewhat correct. It actually installs onto the HDD just fine, but it writes the bootloader to the USB stick and thus you cannot boot unless the USB stick is there.

So when you...

You are completely right of course, it installed correctly onto the HDD, NOT the USB, however it DID install the GRUB onto the USB.

Cheers!

I had the same problem, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was booting up fine as a LiveCD (on my USB stick), installation went fine, but after the reboot and removing the USB stick it just stood there.

I found out...

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You can call off the hounds now, I think I got it!

When I installed using the USB stick, I failed to notice that ubuntu selected the USB stick to install to, so obv. it can't boot after...

By the way, I forgot to mention.

When I install 10.04 through a VM like VirtualBox, first thing I see is the language selector with the option to boot into LiveCD or and starting the install.
...

Thanks for the replies so far.

I have only one HDD and it's just one big partition,
so I doubt GRUB would install itself anywhere else.

However, I did fail to mention that I did the install...

1. Computer is set to boot from HDD
2. I know GRUB is the bootloader, but I saw no mention of it during the install. Do I need to do some magic to get it to install apart from doing a normal...

The video card is just a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 integrated graphics.

Weird thing is, everything works PERFECT from LiveCD, install is smooth, no errors, no nothing. The minute I...

Hi all,

I hope you can help me out here. I'm new to the whole Linux business, and I'm trying to install the lastest and greatest Ubuntu on my HP dc7900 SFF PC.

When i first boot from the CD...