I'm trying to install just Ubuntu on a SSD, and put my programs and data on a separate hard drive. I've created mount points on the separate hard drive for /home, but I keep getting a grub rescue screen when booting from the SSD. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here.
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Zanna
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This should be relatively simple to accomplish simply by analyzing an existing installation and adjusting accordingly. By mounting /home on a seperate drive or partition, the user data will be stored there. As far as programs go, it's pretty simple to determine where those are stored.
Consider this snippet:
me@zippy-64bit:~$ which ls
/bin/ls
me@zippy-64bit:~$ which fdisk
/sbin/fdisk
me@zippy-64bit:~$
As you can see the majority of your programs are by default installed in /bin/ and /sbin
Placing the content of these directories on a separate drive or partition should be simple to do when booted from live media, and adjusting your fstab to mount the appropriate drive/partition at the desired location isn't difficult.
Personally, I prefer to have my programs on my SSD as launch speed is at least as important to me as boot speed.
You may be getting a grub rescue screen for a number of reasons which have likely already been answered here.
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