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My internal hard disk drive is broken and I can't afford a new one right now. I have an external hard drive, however. I tried to install Ubuntu to my external hard drive. It works till I shut my computer. I can't boot it after shutdown. I read some, and found out that it's because my external hard drive does not have a bootloader (GRUB) on it.

So, I installed boot-repair, but it did not work. After I installed Ubuntu 4-5 more times, I gave up and thought about asking you guys.

Here are my results: http://paste.ubuntu.com/26095855/

What must I do now? Can you help me?

Thank you very much in advance.

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  • If UEFI sees drive as an external drive, then it only boots from /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi, not /EFI/ubuntu files. And Boot-Repair has copied shimx64.efi into /EFI/Boot and renamed it. Can you boot in UEFI mode this entry Boot0001* USB Hard Drive (UEFI)?
    – oldfred
    Dec 2, 2017 at 22:01
  • @oldfred How can I do that? You want me to restart? I don't want to reinstall from USB, so I have to know what to do first. You want me to restart and enter BIOS and turn of legacy support?
    – n00b
    Dec 2, 2017 at 22:19
  • Do not reinstall. Question was can you from UEFI boot menu, boot the USB hard drive entry?
    – oldfred
    Dec 3, 2017 at 4:48
  • @oldfred My computer says there's no operating system. It says install operating system to hard drive or something like that. I'll share the results. Thank you very much. However, in the boot-repair result, it says there's no bootloader. Is it normal? Because my internal hard drive is on my desk now, not plugged into my laptop.
    – n00b
    Dec 3, 2017 at 8:23
  • Can you please try what was suggested above (twice)? UEFI, if you don't know yet, is what replaces BIOS in modern PCs. At UEFI settings you should find something about the boot order (typically in the "Boot" menu).
    – user692175
    Dec 3, 2017 at 14:33

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