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I have decided to install Ubuntu on a USB stick and I have a SATA SSD with Windows 10 on it.

I mostly use Ubuntu now, 99.99% of the time, but I’d still want to keep the Windows installation around. I have the BIOS set to look for the USB medium first and then the SSD, however if the power fails or a restart is needed, I’m greeted with

this grub screen which I can’t access remotely

Apparently all I can do is go physically at the machine, type reboot and then spam the F8 key at startup to give me

this Grub screen with the options needed

In this case I just press enter and Ubuntu starts to boot.

I’d like to avoid that first screen, which appears for an unknown reason to me. Maybe Grub doesn’t know where to look.... I don’t know.

Can anyone help please?

mook765
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Nameless
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  • You probably have grub in your internal SSD. See this [question and answer](https://askubuntu.com/questions/327229/installing-ubuntu-in-a-external-hard-drive-and-not-placing-grub-of-my-c-hard-dr) for how you could have avoided it in the first place. – user68186 Apr 06 '20 at 16:03
  • Thanks! Very informative – Nameless Apr 06 '20 at 19:26
  • Does this answer your question? [Can't boot without Flash Drive plugged in](https://askubuntu.com/questions/125494/cant-boot-without-flash-drive-plugged-in) – user68186 Apr 06 '20 at 21:57
  • Yes but it seems this addresses only the causes not the repair. It seems boot-repair is the only way to go – Nameless Apr 08 '20 at 15:00

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You may want to run Boot-Repair, a program that repairs GRUB installations. It works from a bootable USB drive or from an installed Ubuntu system.

Georgelemental
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