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Some time ago I made a kubuntu 16.04 live USB. I booted from this and installed kubuntu to a hard drive (flash) in the system. When the system booted I needed to select an option to boot the specific hard drive from the menu. After a couple of months I went to start the system again and this boot option is no longer there. I seem to remember it being off an "advanced options sub menu", something like "boot hda2". If I boot the live system the hard disk is shown and I can see all of the files. I have backed up my work but I would still like to boot hard drive. I have spent hours looking for a solution including disk-repair but can't seem to get anything to work.

The disk in question comes up as disk /dev/sda, partition 1 is EFI and 2 is the main root disk with the boot directory containing all the kernel boot files.

Any ideas much appreciated.

vmhb
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Booting Hard Drive from Universal USB Installer Boot Drive

Recent versions of UUI do not seem to have an option to boot the hard drive.

Following is how I modified a Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.0.0 Lubuntu 16.04 install to use Syslinux to boot to the HDD in BIOS mode.

  • Open /uui/syslinux.cfg in Notepad.

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  • Directly after the first menu label add:

    # Boot from HDD
LABEL Boot from Hard Drive
MENU LABEL Boot from  Hard Disk
KERNEL chain.c32
APPEND hd1
MENU DEFAULT

  • Save and close Notepad.

  • Copy chain.c32 from the isolinux folder to the uui folder.

The option to boot from Hard Disk should now be on the start menu.

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Some versions of UUI locate syslinux in the root folder, in that case copy chain.c32 to the root folder.

C.S.Cameron
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