[Bug 1409737] Re: GRUB is installed to a device other than what Ubuntu itself was installed to

[Brian Murray]

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Title:
  GRUB is installed to a device other than what Ubuntu itself was
  installed to

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Summary: 
    GRUB was insalled to a device other than the requested Ubuntu installation target and the system would not boot.  Suggest verifying the target of GRUB install matches user expectation

  Detail:
    During a fresh installation of Ubuntu 14.10 to an SSD I could not get the system to boot even though the installation itself had detected the SSD and proceeded without any issues.  There were no errors or text on boot, just a flashing cursor.

  I reinstalled several times and kept having the same issue, trying
  various iterations of BIOS settings  thinking that the problem must be
  an interaction between BIOS and the new SSD (eg AHCI vs. ATA support
  enabled etc etc).

  On the last install I happened to notice that GRUB was being installed
  to an internal SD card (an overlooked relic from when this machine was
  used for Windows and the card was a ReadyBoost cache) even though
  Ubuntu itself had been directed to install to the new SSD.   The
  system cannot boot from this MMC device,

  I removed the SD card and re-installed Ubuntu.  This time GRUB was
  properly installed on the SSD and the system booted correctly.

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