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I have a Lenovo Thinkstation E30. I cannot get it to boot from the hard drive and have given up trying. My thought now is to boot from a USB stick and have it load Ubuntu from the hard drive (or even load from the USB) and mount / from the hard drive. How do I modify the Ubuntu install image to do this? I've tried to

chroot /cdrom,

but I get

failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory.

I don't know how to make this work. Since it can boot from USB, I think I need to have grub mount the hard drive, then add a menu option to /cdrom/boot/grub/grub.cfg to have it load vmlinuz from the hard drive. Other than the theory, I have no idea how to do any of this in reality. (Another option might be to load Linux from the USB and mess with /etc/init.d stuff to load a chrooted Linux from the hard drive.)

Rohit Gupta
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NibbleAbit
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Boot Ubuntu from Internal Hard Drive or from USB

The internal Ubuntu install will be added to the USB's GRUB menu. You can then boot either install of Ubuntu from the USB or you can delete everything except partitions 2 and 3 if you just want the internal install and do not need to use the Ubuntu on the USB.

C.S.Cameron
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I haven't tried it with Ubuntu, but with AlmaLinux was able to create a bootable live image for a USB stick.

Booting Ubuntu a live image on the USB stick should allow you to investigate the state of the installation on the hard drive and/or re-install onto the hard drive.

If you haven't seen it, Try Ubuntu before you install it has links to tutorials for creating a bootable USB stick.

Chester Gillon
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