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I just rebuilt my HTPC with an ASRock AM1H-ITX mobo, an AMD 5350 APU, a stick of Crucial Ballistix 1600 8GB DDR3 RAM and a Crucial BX100 250 GB SSD. I decided to try Ubuntu 14.04 as my stand alone OS. Went through the entire install without a hitch until right before the end, when an error message came up saying some four letter file beginning with a g couldn't be installed in my / partition. I quickly chose another location randomly, and by the time I did this, it said the install was done and to restart. After the reboot, the Ubuntu screen came up telling me to push enter to eject the Ubuntu DVD, which I did when everything went black. Tried resetting and restarting the computer, but all I can get into is the ASRock motherboard utility. Otherwise it boots black.

Help...

sgcroxton
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That means GRUB couldn't be installed. GRUB is the bootloader used by many Linux distributions. To fix this, boot into the LiveCD session of Ubuntu. The easiest way to fix it is by opening the terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T) and typing in sudo grub-install /dev/sda

To explain: / is your computer's root folder. This is where everything else comes from. dev means device. sda is your computer's main hard drive (SSD in this case).

This should fix the issue. Just ask if it doesn't.

Terrance8D
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