14.04

[Colin Law]

On 21 April 2014 14:58, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 14:37:02 +0100
> R Kimber wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:15:26 +0200
>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>
>> > sudo grub-install /dev/sda
>> > sudo update-grub
>>
>> I tried the first if these and got:-
>>
>> "Installing for i386-pc platform"
>>
>> which is odd - I have 64bit OS
>
> I'm now baffled.  I've just done
>  sudo update-grub
> and it says
> "Found Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (14.04) on /dev/sdd1"
>
> The problem with this is that Ubuntu root is on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdd1 is a
> USB drive that I use for backups and which is not normally mounted.

There must be enough of a system on it that it looks bootable.  Unplug
it and run update-grub again.

You are not booting off the usb when you run grub-install and
update-grub are you?

Colin