Comment 42 for bug 806291

I was pointed towards boot-repair because grub wasn't able to install itself to my SSD (/dev/sdb)... I planned on choosing whether to boot into Windows 7 on an Intel motherboard fakeraid raid10 array or Mint Linux by using my BIOS to choose boot priority rather than permanently using Grub to choose which OS to boot.

Mint install was successful other than the grub bootloader install, and I tried to install grub manually when the automated install process failed. Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work manually, either. Once I was informed of the existence of boot-repair, I booted the Mint livecd (usb stick via iso+unetbootin, actually) and installed the Ubuntu boot-repair ppa and boot-repair. Using a custom configuration to make sure that grub was only installed to the SSD, I ran boot-repair. It gave me some instructions to follow and once everything was done Grub had been successfully installed only to the SSD. Now I can boot Mint from the SSD.

This tool should be included on every Debian-based Live CD... or at least Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint Linux.