Can anyone help me fix grub?

Question

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

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

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?

You probably have grub in your internal SSD. See this question and answer for how you could have avoided it in the first place. — user68186, Apr 06 '20 at 16:03
Does this answer your question? Can't 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

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '20 at 16:00

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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.

answered Apr 06 '20 at 16:00

Georgelemental

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Thank you very much! This hopefully will do the trick! – Nameless Apr 08 '20 at 15:02

Can anyone help me fix grub?

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