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headless ubuntu doesn't boot - after installing sata drive

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My ubuntu server doesn't boot when I connect sata drive, once I disconnect it it boots fine.

(I'm booting from USB drive)

What I did:

I installed SATA drive, booted normally, with fdisk created partition, formated to ext4 and rebooted. After reboot it doesn't start.

Any ideas?

I have no monitor to see why it's stoping or if there is any error msg.

I'm afraid it's bios that tries to boot from sata drive instead of usb...

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answered 2 Years ago olfdit · Accepted Answer

Hard drives tend to have boot priority ahead of USB drives. If so it is unlikely, the system will attempt to boot the USB device.

Try installing grub2 on the hard disk. You should either create a small boot partition on the disk, or configure Grub to boot the USB device. You may have to adjust the device id to reflect reordering the BIOS does when the disk is installed at boot time.