Inspiron 17 will only boot from USB
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BrettKnoss
Inspiron 17 will only boot from USB
How do I get my Dell Inspirion to boot from the harddrive, instead of the USB. Mint runs great, but only works with the USB in the machine, and I haven't tried to save anything.
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WharfRat
Re: Inspiron 17 will only boot from USB
Hello BrettKnoss 
Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum
It looks like the boot loader ended up on the flash drive
How did you install Mint
Also paste back the results of
Welcome to Linux Mint and the Linux Mint forum
It looks like the boot loader ended up on the flash drive
How did you install Mint
Also paste back the results of
sudo blkid-
BrettKnoss
Re: Inspiron 17 will only boot from USB
I used the installer. I enter sudo blkid in the terminal prompt?
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WharfRat
Re: Inspiron 17 will only boot from USB
Yes, then copy and paste the output and enclose it in code tags.