Bountyhunter50 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 What's up guys? Apparently I didn't think this completely through: I have Ubuntu installed on a 32GB SDHC card that I have installed on my Asus G75VW (currently rocking 8.1) and my idea was to use the SD card as the *third HDD on the system (I have both HDD bays used for Win 8.1..probably a mistake but I'll deal with that after the fact..working to SSD) SO when I go to hit ESC to try and boot to the SD card, I can only select between Windows, DVD drive, or only USB (when one is present). When I went to install Ubuntu on the card , I swore I installed GRUB, but it's not even recognizing the drive as a whole. Am I missing something, or does my logic here not work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 When you fdisked the card, did you mark the boot partition as bootable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bountyhunter50 Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 When you fdisked the card, did you mark the boot partition as bootable? .....Crap. I used Gparted within Ubuntu before lighting up the installer. I don't think I did flag it as bootable. I wonder ... If I booted from a live-disk Ubuntu, could I still flag it for bootable? or is it easier/better off to start from scratch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Yeah, just use fdisk/gparted/whatever from the live disk to mark it. You probably don't even have to re-apply the bootloader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bountyhunter50 Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 <-------------------------- Dork Thanks for the sanity check! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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