I bought a Alienware 15 R2 back in September with the intention of dual booting between Windows 10 and Ubuntu. My plan was to install Ubuntu on a 64GB micro sdcard, there is a slot built in. The installation went through just fine, but it boots straight to Windows 10. I've gone into the BIOS and I see that the installer created a UBUNTU entry, but when I set it to the primary bootloader it just goes to a command prompt that show "grub>".
The grub.cfg file only has 1 line in it which points to my main hard drive that has Windows installed. The line is as follows:
search.fs_uuid ********-****-****-************ root set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'configfile $prefix/grub.cfg
When I change the uuid to that of the sdcard it does the same thing.
The reason I'm trying to have the OS on the sdcard is so that I can make better use of my hard space. When I first got the laptop I did let the installer partition the drive, but after a warranty fix for a defective video card. I figured better to make use of the sdcard slot, since I had a 64GB card laying around still unopened.
I'm a Cisco network admin by trade and I've installed Windows plenty of times and only played with Ubuntu a handful of times, but my god this stuff is not something one can just pickup. I've spent months searching and I still do not understand how this bootloader works at all. Its extremely frustrating.
Any help will be extremely appreciated.
