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GRUB2 installs to USB device during installation

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Every once in awhile I have a problem with Debian/Ubuntu installers running from USB thumb drives. What I think happens is the installer sees the USB drive first and the HDD second, so when it installs a bootloader, some information is written to the USB thumb drive that is needed to boot the computer. This is a problem because I don’t intend on leaving the USB thumb drive in the computer every time I need to boot it.

So my fix is quick and simple (and can be found all over the Internet). I only post it here so that I can easily find it in the future.

sudo grub-install /dev/sda # HDD device name
sudo update-grub

Good luck!

New Year’s resolutions 2012

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Here’s my short list of New Year’s resolutions for 2012. I will come back to this post and strike through what I’ve completed, as I complete it.

I will also bump this post in December 2012 before making another Post in January 2013.

  • Read THESE books.
  • Eat at every restaurant in Richmond’s Fan district (neighborhoods include Oregon Hill, VCU, Broad Street Corridor, SOFA (Southern Fan), and Carver), or at least every restaurant on this list:
  • Complete Code Year 2012 at Codecademy: Got behind by a month, gave up.
  • Enable 2-step verification on my Google accounts.
  • Enable full-disk encryption on every laptop, desktop and server I own. For the Windows boxes, I will be replacing Bitlocker for Truecrypt. For the Linux boxes, I will continue to use dm-crypt/LUKS/cryptsetup.
  • Buy an ugly Christmas sweater before the holidays.
  • Import all of my photos (thousands) into Picasa and tag them for faster searching. Having them in folders is no longer working for the number of photos I have.