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I cant boot from hdd,only pendrive

Asked by Tarık Ertekin

Recently I made an pendrive to install 12.04 on my acer netbook.Now I cant boot from hdd,only from pendrive (USB).How can I start 12.04 from hdd.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

In the USB stick, if you run:

sudo fdisk -l

You will see the drive name (probably /dev/sda)

You can then run:

sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sda

Obviously if yours is different then change the drive name.

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Tarık Ertekin (tarikertekin) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.