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Old 10-25-2013
Right place to install Linux bootloader

I installed ubuntu on a windows machine, but after restart the computer automatically booted windows without showing me boot option. I think I might have installed my ubuntu bootloader in the wrong partition. I previously have sda1,2,3,5 and 6. I partitioned sda6 into sda6, sda7 and sda8. I mounted / on sda6, swap on sda7, /home on sda8. When choosing where to install bootloader on the bottom, I selected sda6, instead of sda, where my windows bootloader is. I wonder if I should choose that disk? And now how can I repair it? I used a usb to install it. I can lunch ubuntu directly from my usb, so I tried grub-install /dev/sda on the usb lunched version but it displays: cp: cannot create regular file `/boot/grub/915resolution.mod': Permission denied. Don't know what to do.
Btw, in which disk is my ubuntu kernel installed? thanks a lot.
 

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GRUB-INSTALL(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   GRUB-INSTALL(1)

NAME
grub-install -- Install GRUB on a device. SYNOPSIS
grub-install [--modules=MODULES] [--install-modules=MODULES] [--themes=THEMES] [--fonts=FONTS] [--locales=LOCALES] [--compress[=no,xz,gz,lzo]] [-d | --directory=DIR] [--grub-mkimage=FILE] [--boot-directory=DIR] [--target=TARGET] [--grub-setup=FILE] [--grub-mkrelpath=FILE] [--grub-probe=FILE] [--allow-floppy] [--recheck] [--force] [--force-file-id] [--disk-module=MODULE] [--no-nvram] [--removable] [--bootloader-id=ID] [--efi-directory=DIR] INSTALL_DEVICE DESCRIPTION
grub-install installs GRUB onto a device. This includes copying GRUB images into the target directory (generally /boot/grub), and on some platforms may also include installing GRUB onto a boot sector. OPTIONS
--modules=MODULES Pre-load modules specified by MODULES. --install-modules=MODULES Install only MODULES and their dependencies. The default is to install all available modules. --themes=THEMES Install THEMES. The default is to install the starfield theme, if available. --fonts=FONTS Install FONTS. The default is to install the unicode font. --locales=LOCALES Install only locales listed in LOCALES. The default is to install all available locales. --compress=no,xz,gz,lzo Compress GRUB files using the specified compression algorithm. --directory=DIR Use images and modules in DIR. --grub-mkimage=FILE Use FILE as grub-mkimage. The default is /usr/bin/grub-mkimage. --boot-directory=DIR Use DIR as the boot directory. The default is /boot. GRUB will put its files in a subdirectory of this directory named grub. --target=TARGET Install GRUB for TARGET platform. The default is the platform grub-install is running on. --grub-setup=FILE Use FILE as grub-setup. The default is /usr/bin/grub-setup. --grub-mkrelpath=FILE Use FILE as grub-mkrelpath. The default is /usr/bin/grub-mkrelpath. --grub-probe=FILE Use FILE as grub-probe. The default is /usr/bin/grub-mkrelpath. --allow-floppy Make the device also bootable as a floppy. This option is the default for /dev/fdX devices. Some BIOSes will not boot images cre- ated with this option. --recheck Delete any existing device map and create a new one if necessary. --force Install even if problems are detected. --force-file-id Use identifier file even if UUID is available. --disk-module=MODULE Use MODULE for disk access. This allows you to manually specify either biosdisk or native disk access. This option is only avail- able on the BIOS target platform. --no-nvram Do not update the boot-device NVRAM variable. This option is only available on IEEE1275 target platforms. --removable Treat the target device as if it is removeable. This option is only available on the EFI target platform. --bootloader-id=ID Use ID as the bootloader ID. This opption is only available on the EFI target platform. --efi-directory=DIR Use DIR as the EFI System Partition root. This opption is only available on the EFI ta rget platform. INSTALL_DEVICE Install GRUB to the block device INSTALL_DEVICE. SEE ALSO
info grub Wed Feb 26 2014 GRUB-INSTALL(1)
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