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Question #49623 on Ubuntu Eee changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eee/+question/49623

    Status: Open => Answered

rfu proposed the following answer:
The main issue here seems to be that the master boot record (MBR) was installed on the USB stick.
In the installation of ubuntu-eee in the advanced options you can select which device to store the MBR on.
What you need to do:
1. Decide where to store the MBR
If you replace the existing xandros by ubuntu-eee this would be the SSD included in your eee, if you want to add ubuntu-eee without damaging your xandros installation, this may be the SD card.
2. At installation, in advanced options, select the right place to install the MBR
3. At next startup of your eee, make sure that the device which has the MBR is the one selected for boot (you can select this in BIOS, you reach BIOS via F2 at startup, or directly select it by pressing ESC at startup)
4. It may be that the GRUB configuration selected a wrong device, which has to be corrected then (I think it somehow sees the device it booted from at installation of ubuntu as hd0 and therefore selects hd1 in grub). I think the device you now boot from (i.e. where you put the MBR) becomes hd0, so if MBR is on the same device as ubunbtu, you have to change the (hd1,0) to (hd0,0) in /boot/grub/menu.lst
With all this, it should work fine, or at least it did for me :-)

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