Comment 7 for bug 195415

Dereck,

That would be a long story. Ubuntu hijacked the MRB of the main hard drive of my computer
even though I was installing it on another drive. When Ubuntu couldn't load on the USB drive
because I didn't unmount it first, the computer and the USB hard drive became unusable.
I received a GRUB error when I tried to boot the computer. I Gparted and formatted the
USB drive to ntfs. I found that Dell provided an MBR fix .iso image that can be put on a
cd. That restored my MBR and fixed the GRUB error. With the hard drive and the USB drive
restored, Ubuntu installed flawlessly on the unmounted USB drive.

I found the mounting problem by looking through the logs.

I thought that I could put Ubuntu on a USB drive and use it on different machines. That
does not seem to be a possibility.