I have a Dell inspiron n5050 with a damaged internal hard drive and I'm trying to load ubuntu 20.04 from an external 4T HDD as my main drive.
I've created a live usb from my other machine, boot from it on my damaged machine and installed ubuntu 20.04 on the external drive, then restarted , but all I get is a black screen with a blinking cursor (_).
What I've tried:
- boot from the usb, install & run boot-repair, but it's not working
- on the black screen, hold
shift
orctrl+alt+fx
, but it does nothing - followed this article, until
choose ‘Use as EFI system partition’
, I don't find this option, I'm not sure but I think I don't have a EFI system (I'm still noob on this)
I don't understand why it does not boot from the hard drive, while the live usb boots just fine
Edit
I did follow the steps from here, but it did not work.
I tried to boot from the external drive on a VM on a macbook, and it did work, but on my Dell it's always a black screen.
Maybe it's something to do with usb 3 (HDD) vs usb 2 (DELL), as mentioned here
Enabling the xHCI option in the BIOS fixes the hanging boot issue
but I don't find this option
GRUB
plus a blinking cursor, but I can't do anything