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I just installed a new SSD into my laptop and had some questions on how to boot into Ubuntu.

Before I installed my SSD, I had a single HDD with both Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu installed on it. When I got my SSD, I only moved my Windows installation to the SSD, and left the Ubuntu installation on the HDD which is now in the secondary hard drive bay in my laptop. Now, I want to boot into my Ubuntu partition but I'm not sure how. When I boot up, if I don't do anything to change the boot device, it boots to Windows. If I try to select the boot device, it shows Ubuntu as installed on my SSD (my guess is that the boot entry got cloned when I was moving Windows). So, if I try to use that boot entry, it gives me an error about not being able to find Ubuntu on hd1.

Any suggestions? Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks!

Globmont
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Here's what you a gotta do:

When you turn on your computer, watch the screen. It will likely say something like 'Press F8 for boot menu' or 'Press ESC for startup options'. Do that, and select your HDD in the boot menu.

Once you've booted into ubuntu, run this command in Terminal:

sudo grub-install /dev/sda

That will install GRUB on the SSD, which will let you boot to Ubuntu without going through all the motions.

Daniel
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