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28 questions linked to/from Is it possible to boot Ubuntu using the Windows bootloader?
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How to set Windows bootloader as default bootloader?
I have a Win 7/11.10 dual boot system with Grub 2 as the default bootloader. However, I want to make Windows bootloader the default bootloader (grub 'dos' like interface scrares the hell out of my ...
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How can I add an entry for Ubuntu to the Windows 7 boot menu?
I have the following setup:
first partition is windows 7 partition
second partition - ubuntu 12.04 partition
while installing ubuntu I installed grub2 bootloader to ubuntu partition
mbr contains ...
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How to add Ubuntu to the Windows XP boot.ini file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to boot Ubuntu using the Windows bootloader?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 on a partition separate partition from Windows and was wanting to know how to ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu after installing it and it looks like it isn't even installed in the disc management
I Installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a 45GB partition, and when it asked me to reboot the computer, the dual boot menu didn't appear, it boot directly Windows 7.
When I checked the disc management, there was ...
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Installing Ubuntu without touching Windows
I have a PC with 5 hard drives (SSD and HDD). One of the drives has Windows 10. In the past, I have tried to install Ubuntu and Windows using the following method so there will be no interference ...
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How do I completely remove Ubuntu/Grub and replace it with the Windows 7 bootloader? [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu successfully by using acpi=off and nolapic. When I booted into the installed operating system, all that the screen showed was several multi colored bars (This must have been my 10,...
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How to install Ubuntu 18.04 without GRUB?
I have two SSDs in my PC, one with an existing Windows 10 installation and another I just added that I plan to install Ubuntu on.
The ask:
How to install Ubuntu without GRUB. I want to keep Windows ...
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How to replace GRUB with Windows NT Bootloader?
I'm not really a big fan of GRUB (I had a bad experience), nor very knowledgeable about Linux, so how do I remove GRUB, and replace it with Windows NT Bootloader, yet keep the same list/number/entries ...
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Can I use GRUB only when I want to use ubuntu
I've installed windows 10 already, but the time to install ubuntu is coming.
I usually don't need ubuntu, as I just use Ubuntu to use Tensorflow..
so, the 'GRUB' is very annoying thing to me.
I don'...
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How to edit grub.cfg in /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu to boot direct to Windows 10 if Ubuntu not detected?
I'm fairly new to Linux and English is not my native language, so forgive me if I can't formulate my question correctly, but I'll try my best.
I have a Windows 10 laptop and decided to install Ubuntu ...
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Installed Kubuntu in external SSD and now I can't load Windows without it [duplicate]
I have a computer running Windows 10. Because I wanted to use an Ubuntu based OS, I installed Kubuntu on an external SSD. I have a Lenovo y50-70 laptop, which has a button (next to the power button) ...
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Can I add Ubuntu in Windows Boot Manager using Windows 10? [duplicate]
I'd like to boot into Ubuntu using the Windows Boot Manager on Windows 10 using UEFI. Can I do this? Thanks a lot.
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Unify Windows and Ubuntu boot managers
I ran into some trouble trying to start Ubuntu 14 in a new laptop with Windows 8.1 preinstalled. However, the booting process is kind of uncomfortable now.
When I start the laptop first I can see the ...
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Making Windows Boot Loader the default instead of Grub 2 [duplicate]
So basically before Ubuntu 13.04 I was running 12.10. I had Windows Boot Loader the default. If I chose to boot to Ubuntu, it would go into grub, but grub was set to 0 seconds so it would basically ...
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Installing Ubuntu on another Hard Drive Disk (F:)
I want to install Ubuntu side by side on my Windows XP.But instead of placing it on HDD C: drive, i want to place it on a slave HDD (which would be drive F:).I already tested on a virtual machine in ...
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no windows 7 entry in grub after installing ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a separate partition. Unfortunatelly after installation I couldn't see grub menu. Ubuntu starts automatically. Then I installed the boot-repair and repaired by this ...
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Does installing Ubuntu overwrite windows bootloader? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to boot Ubuntu using the Windows bootloader?
So there's the question. I want to preserve my original Windows 7 Loader.
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change first loader to windows instead of ubuntu [duplicate]
Currently I have Windows and Ubuntu installed and dual boot is working fine.
However the dual boot is loading via GRUB, but I want it to load from Windows' bootloader as I want to enable bitlocker.
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How to boot between windows 10 and ubuntu without reboot?
My professor has asked me to find a way to install Ubuntu the computers at a lab that already has windows 10 installed. I know that I can dual install both of these OS seamlessly and be able to switch ...
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Change the bootloader from grub to windows boot manager
I have an old pc, isn't in UEFI but in BIOS, I have Windows 11 and ubuntu, for the bootloader I have GRUB; It's possible change it to Windows Boot Manager??
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Dual booting ubuntu onto existing windows 10 parittion without grub
I have a laptop with windows 10 installed on it, and I want to dual boot ubuntu onto it. I've done this before once, but the install also installed GRUB, probably because I picked the "install ...
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How to stop Ubuntu Installer detecting Windows/ignoring to avoid problems with existing boot managers
Is it possible to tell the Ubuntu installer to NOT look for Windows/ignore it (but leave it intact), so that it doesn't attempt to use GRUB.
Related:
How to restore Startup Manager Bootcamp option ...
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Dual Boot using Windows Bootloader instead of Grub
I am using Windows 10 and now I have installed Ubuntu 18.04.... As my Laptop I have some problem using Grub Bootloader.
So, I followed this: Is it possible to boot Ubuntu using the Windows bootloader?...
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Dual boot options not showing up
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 along with Windows 8.1 and after 3 to 4 times, it worked properly. But after it starts, it directly boots to the Windows boot manager then Windows.
It does not show the ...
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Load Ubuntu without GRUB, Is it possible?
I have two partitions. The first partition contains Windows. I use a second partition for Ubuntu without GRUB.
How can I make Windows bootloader can detect Ubuntu? I do not want to use GRUB.
Is it ...
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Installed Ubuntu 13.04 on Windows 7 but it loads straight into Ubuntu
As you can already tell, I am a Ubuntu newbie...trying to make the big switch from Windows to Linux. I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a partition aside from Windows. I was waiting for a prompt to ask me ...
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Install Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows 8 (not preinstalled) without grub [duplicate]
I want to install x64 Ubuntu 12.04.2 on my HP laptop. I don't like grub, so I want to install without it or install grub onto another partition and then add grub to Windows' bootloader (and set grub ...
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How to recover GRUB?
I have installed windows 10 in one hard disk and in another ssd I have ubuntu 17.04 installed. Grub was installed in the drive where windows is installed. Basically the windows MBR got replaced by ...
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