After installation, PC says "Operating Ssytem not found"

[TravLR]

I put LMDE 201403 64-bit (Cinnamon) on an 8GB flash drive, then booted from it on my Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series 3137 with a 256SSD. I installed LMDE on the SSD, telling GRUB to install on the MBR of "sdb", which is what Mint was recognizing my SSD as.

Installation and everything seemed fine. When I click yes to reboot my machine after installation, it hangs on text screen saying something like "System is going for reboot now", then I wait... but nothing happens, so I manually turn off my Dell, unplug the flash drive, and power it back on.

However, every time I've done this (four times now, with small variants in partition configuration and GRUB installation) when I tell the computer to boot from the only hard drive (SSD) on the system, it says "Operation System not found".

I'm at a loss on how to fix this.

Thanks in advance!

[kurotsugi]

fist thing first...what is the result of

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inxi - Fxz
sudo parted -l

based on your explanation it might be a problem from wrong grub installation or wrong grub configuration. it usually could be fixed by reinstalling grub. first of all, boot into lmde liveiso, open terminal, then

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sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sdX

x stand for disk number while y is partition number.

[var]

I put LMDE 201403 64-bit (Cinnamon) on an 8GB flash drive, then booted from it on my Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series 3137 with a 256SSD. I installed LMDE on the SSD, telling GRUB to install on the MBR of "sdb", which is what Mint was recognizing my SSD as.

Installation and everything seemed fine. When I click yes to reboot my machine after installation, it hangs on text screen saying something like "System is going for reboot now", then I wait... but nothing happens, so I manually turn off my Dell, unplug the flash drive, and power it back on.

However, every time I've done this (four times now, with small variants in partition configuration and GRUB installation) when I tell the computer to boot from the only hard drive (SSD) on the system, it says "Operation System not found".

I'm at a loss on how to fix this.

Thanks in advance!

Strange how it is designating your SSD as sdb. This is typically an external drive / USB thumb drive. sda would be your internal drive.