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Today I decided to erase OS X and install Ubuntu - unfortunately something went wrong and now I am asking this question on live mode on Ubuntu.

So basically all I did was create a bootable USB stick from OS X, restarted, then held down ⌥ = 'alt/option*, choosed the stick, installed Ubuntu and erased OS X.

All was good, and after installion it said: "successful installation" and restarted the computer. I did that, and a blinking question mark appeared on the screen. My MBP could not find any bootable partition.

Any idea what can I do to get Ubuntu up and running?

By the way, I want to point out there is no OS X partition left on my drive - I didn't use any kind of program for dual boot, since I wanted to install OS X on another physical drive.

dobey
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  • Please indicate your Boot-Info URL ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info ) – LovinBuntu Sep 29 '13 at 21:24
  • Take a look at [this](http://askubuntu.com/questions/316893/error-partition-table-requires-a-separate-partition-for-boot-loader-code-efi-i) answer in terms of the booting setup, also. – jeremy Dec 31 '13 at 06:58

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your installation failed, i strongly suspect, because you didn't create a proper boot on the drive.

Try installing it again but this time you will want to create your partitions manually. First create a /boot and give it 250mb then create your root /root and give it 12gb -15gb then create your swap /swap and give it 2048mb then create your home /home and give it the rest of the drive. I have found this setup works beautifully and is extremely stable

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