How to install Ubuntu on an external HDD?

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Nokira Nokawa2017-01-17 07:45:58

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Nokira Nokawa, 2017-01-17 07:45:58

Hello, I wanted to install Ubuntu on my external HDD, so that the OS would always be at hand.
I looked on the Internet for all sorts of tutorials and stuff, but nothing happened. The axis itself was installed on the HDD, but when I started it, I first got "Error: file `/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod` not found".
I found on the Internet how to fix it in rescue mod .
But I got the following error:
The directory with GRUB was not found
Ubuntu version - 16.04
External HDD - WD MyPassport 1TB (I don't know the full name.. Erased)
Please help me solve the problem.

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Yuri Chudnovsky, 2017-01-17
@Frankenstine

Installation is no different from installing on an internal one, the main thing is 1) select the correct disk for installing the bootloader and 2) correctly configure the BIOS to boot from an external disk.

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A person from Kazakhstan, 2017-01-17
@LenovoId

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu60J_vzo-4

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igor travov, 2017-01-17
@estj

during installation, they ask you where to install the download and the new partition table ....
If you answer your mobile-esdec (for example), then everything is OK, but check if the old partitions start without a mobile disk, so that you don’t keep it with the car all the time. ..
And of course, "set" the BIOS on the first boot from this mobile disk ....
Or, if you have Linux installed everywhere, then you can leave the old place to load the new partition table - just another partition appears on external media .... (remember - the master boot record must change during installation and you must install it in the right place). This is with yues bi legacy of course.

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Maxim Moseychuk, 2017-01-17
@fshp

Run gparted from livecd, attaching a hard drive first, and send a screenshot with information about this drive.