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I wanted to install Ubuntu for my Samsung NP530U4C on SSD. There are 2 drives available in this machine one is 750 GB HDD and 24 GB iSSD. But SSD one is not available in boot loader. After I tried to install Ubuntu on SSD and restarted the machine, I was stuck at the splash screen of samsung motherboard. It kept restarting. After a quick research I thought it was because I deleted grub2 loader.

Then I tried to repartition and install again. I put 500 MB /boot ext2 partition on HDD, 5000 MB swap area on HDD, and 24 GB / ext4 partition on SSD. And set bootloader on HDD. But this time en error occured "grub-install /dev/sda failed".

So I just wanted to install Ubuntu on SSD, but failed. How could I achieved that now?

Braiam
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The BIOS of the Samsung NP530U4C does not allow booting from the SSD drive (/dev/sda). When you do an install you can install Ubuntu to /dev/sda but you will have to install grub to the hard drive at /dev/sdb. In the BIOS you will also need to disable fastboot, disable secure mode, and change boot mode to CMS.

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  • I updated my question. The SSD drive is mapped to /dev/sdb and HDD is mapped to /dev/sda. And in BIOS i can disable fastboot but there is no settings to disable secure mode and change boot mode. As i stated in the question i could not installed grub on hard drive – Ahmet Gulden Jul 17 '14 at 11:22