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boot fails - PulseAudio

I'm using Ubuntu for the first time and I'm new in the LINUX world .. After successfully installing 11.10 as second system besides XP this morning Ubuntu now gets stuck when booting. Right after the ...
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How do I change the the boot default from Ubuntu to Windows? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How do I set Windows to boot as the default in the boot loader? 9 days ago I added Kubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) to Windows 7 on my computer. Since then I have spent ...
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Is dhclient.conf used during boot when bringing up network interfaces?

I am running Ubuntu 11.10 32bit Server on a single-board computer. I want the option of using the Ethernet interface (eth0) as a backend to control the computer if it's connected. I'm also lazy: if ...
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Ubuntu install didn't ask for a password

In computing class at school (A2 levels) we are building some machines and I tried to install ubuntu onto it and it asked for a password after install yet it never asked me for one. Anyone else ...
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How can I change the boot order (grub2)? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Change the grub boot order for ubuntu 11.10 I saw guides of setting first operation system to boot. How can I set also the second operation system to boot?
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USB Drive Warm Boot Issue. Cold boot = Perfect. Warm boot = “No boot sector found on USB device”

I'm experiencing a boot/reboot quirk similar to, yet somewhat different from others posted here. I have two Western Digital "Passport" external USB2 drives (160GB and 320GB) with Ubuntu 11.10 ...
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Strange screen after boot loader?

After the boot loader completes the screen goes to the following image ! My VGA : xfx geforce 9600 gso 1.5g What should I do ?
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Why can't I see the image changed with GRUB Customizer?

I installed grub-customizer to edit the boot-screen. It works so far (i. e. for timeout), but changes concerning the background image (and maybe font styles, too) aren't applied. I placed the image in ...
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Install Problem (Ubuntu Server 10.04) with USB as it reboots when I hit 'enter' for 'Install Ubuntu Server' option! Help

We cannot seem to install Ubuntu Server with USB as it reboots when I hit 'enter' for 'Install Ubuntu Server' option. My friend wants to try setting up a server so; we downloaded Ubuntu Server ...
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Booting Ubuntu 11.10 brings GRUB CLI

I'm a novice in the Linux world. Windows 7 is my primary OS. Trying to run Ubuntu with Windows. Failed so far. I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 in a second hard disk. I chose second hard disk's MBR to ...
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Installed fglrx. Plymouth using text theme

My boot splash screen was fine with the open source drivers. I installed fglrx, rebooted, and it seems plymouth is using the ubuntu text theme. This seems to be my problemL Why does Plymouth boot in ...
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Can't boot after update, stuck on a loop [closed]

Today I updated my Ubuntu 11.10 to kernel version 3.0.0-16-generic. After the update I restarted the computer and then I got stuck in a loop right after the initial screen where all the modules are ...
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System does not boot after changeing partitions

I have a Kubuntu 11.10 system with a HDD (sda) and an SSD (sdb). /home and /var and swap are partitions on the HDD and the / partition is the only one on the SSD. All partitions are ext4 (except ...
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Error message “BUG: unable to handle kernel”

I extracted the .iso onto a disk, and tried to boot from it. For the longest time, it wouldn't even boot, instead, it would bypass it and boot from the hard drive, until I swapped my newer disk drive ...
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Replaced drive in RAID array--now can't boot?

I have a home server running 10.04 configured with an mdadm-based RAID array. The boot and /home partitions are both on RAID-1 arrays, and I have a large data partition on RAID-5. There are three ...
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Installing Ubuntu 11.10 x64 alongside Windows 7 x64 doesn't boot into Ubuntu

It appears that there are lots of "Ubuntu alongside Windows" posts, but I couldn't find my answer. My PC's only OS was Windows 7 x64. All of my 750 GB HDD partitions were in NTFS format. Yesterday I ...
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Improve System Performance By Stopping Daemons/Services

I am trying to improve my system performance by removing some daemon/Services. On my Desktop PC i need to stop some daemons/services Which are Installed by Default in Ubuntu From auto starting . ...
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Which one is better for Ubuntu? ARM or Intel?

If i was going to buy a new laptop or pc which would be better if i would only install Ubuntu? I've read some articles about Ubuntu booting really fast with ARM and on their new 12.04 they promised ...
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Make Ubuntu boot from a folder other than /

Is there a way that you can move an Ubuntu install to its own folder in a partition? If so, what settings do I have to change? (I imagine I would have to change grub settings and /etc/fstab.) I'm ...
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I can boot from USB a installation of Windows 7, but I can't do this with Ubuntu or XBMC live

I'm using a old pc with Intel Pentium 4, 1gb ram, 200gb HD All this night I tried to boot Ubuntu from USB... I can do this with Windows 7 normally I tried first using Startup Disk Creator, but ...
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“isolinux.bin is missing or corrupt”, when attempting to boot using disk in USB CD DRIVE

Surprisingly this question doesn't come up through askubuntu.com search or google search. I have an external CD drive which connects to USB. I burned 11.10 Ubuntu image to CD-R. The disk correctly ...
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How can I boot with a degraded mdadm array?

I've just done an upgrade on a system with a degraded mdadm array. It's been degraded for ages (yes, I'm very naughty) and it occasionally makes a big fuss about it but booting hasn't been a ...
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/boot driver filling up due to kernels on 11.10 and unable to update [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Is there a way to remove/hide old kernel versions? Any clean solutions for cleaning up the /boot mount? It seems to fill with kernels but I'd like to make sure the ...
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Ubuntu Grub Screen Problems

I'm running Windows XP and Ubuntu 11.10 as a dual boot, however, at the grub screen, the only way to boot Ubuntu is to select recovery mode and then select resume normal boot. If I select the proper ...
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Long beeping noise when trying to boot

I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 with the Wubi installer. When my boot menu comes up, I pick Ubuntu. While loading Ubuntu, there is a very strange noise that doesn't come from my speakers. It sounds like ...
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Unable to login when using the try feature of Ubuntu 11.10

Everyone today for the first time I have download & burn the iso image of ubuntu 11.10 & when I tried to boot it. It went succussfuly but when i selected try ubuntu without installation. It ...
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11.10 USB boot doesn't work

I've created a bootable USB drive that works fine on my desktop, but doesn't on my Gateway LT27 netbook. I set the boot order corect in bought cases, still for my netbook it doesn't boot at all. ...
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System will not boot after applying updates

I made a clean installtion of Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit without problems and after completing the install I applied all the recommended updates from "Update Manager". I'm not sure if it was the kernel ...
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Ubuntu fails to boot after kernel update

I made a clean installed of Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit without a problem. It came with kernel version 3.0.0.12. I rebooted twice with no problem. After this I applied all the recommended updates from ...
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I can't boot after deleting the first ubuntu?

I installed ubuntu 11.10 and after a while it get damaged and I install another one in another partition . After I boot to the new one I delete the old one ( I format its partition ) . When I restart ...
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Error message when starting from external usb hard drive

I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 on an external USB (2.0) Hard Drive (/dev/sdb1) but when Ubuntu starts I get a message that says: ata_id[279] HDIO GET IDENTITY FAILED . . . /dev/sdb where I made a ...
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Ubuntu does not boot after install

I have installed Ubuntu form a CD on my laptop and on my desktop PC (both with Windows XP). After installation I can choose what system should be booted, Windows XP or Ubuntu, on my laptop and it ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 fresh Install won't boot

I installed Ubuntu on a VM in VirtualBox but after the installation Ubuntu won't boot up at all! It is stuck at a black screen which is doing nothing. What happened during installation and how do I ...
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install grub, but NOT in the mbr

you may have become tired of the question i'm about to ask, since i've already found some posts concerning my issue. however, none of those seemed to work for me. so here's the thing: my goal is to ...
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Ubuntu Randomly Stopped Booting

I'm using Ubuntu since 2007 on A Dell Vostro 1510 and Ubuntu always did the job. I recently installed 11.10, its been working for the past two weeks with Gnome Shell. It worked some one hour ago ...
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What's causing this server to boot slowly?

Here's my bootchart image: http://i.imgur.com/GFf43.png There seems to be a big gap of nothing going on, and I think it increases if there is more network activity directed at the server. The ...
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Installation stops with random text and blinking cursor

I am installing Ubuntu on a friends IBM Thinkpad and have run into the strangest problem. I have a CD-R and used the recommended program to burn the .ISO image. I insert it into my friends laptop it ...
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boot optimisation, takes too long

I can't seem to get my system (asrock ion 330, ocz agility 4 120GB, 4GB, 11.10) to boot in under 30ish seconds. I would expect having an SSD, things could boot a bit faster... main challenge seems ...
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Stuck in GRUB menu, can't load ubuntu

I got home today to a frozen laptop. I rebooted the system and since then I can't get past the GRUB menu. Each time I select an option in this menu I get a black screen and the GRUB menu returns. In ...
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Problems with Plymouth

I tried to fix the resolution of Grub and Plymouth, but it didn't work, the signal was out of range during the boot, then I reinstalled grub and it worked again. But then I tried the program called ...
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Ubuntu loads directly to terminal

I had some issues with file system but I ran recovery and now it seamed to be fine. But I was stuck at purple loading screen. this was very common error so as one topic suggested I opened ...
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Ubuntu not starting up following crash

This afternoon my headless ubuntu machine seemed to dissapear from the network. COuldnt ping it, SSH sessions that were ongoing suddenly died. I rebooted the machine and...nothing. A few seconds of ...
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Change purple cast on the bootscreen of 11.10 [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How to change the purple background color in grub? Is there a way to deactivate it? I want the black to be true black.
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Boot to a black screen but recovery mode boot works

I'm running Windows XP and Ubuntu 11.10 as a dual boot, however, at the grub screen, the only way to boot Ubuntu is to select recovery mode and then select resume normal boot. If I select the proper ...
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Purple screen + read only system + dual boot CLOSE

I am new to Ubuntu community so I may make some obvious mistakes. My problems started when all tool bars and window bars just disappeared. I rebooted hoping that it will fix it self. But then I was ...
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My ubuntu with unity not loading after last reboot

I have asus u36sd and after last reboot I can't start up my ubuntu 11.10. Usually I suspend my notebook by closing cover but today I reboot it and it not starting up. Booting flowing by normal till to ...
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How disable purple screen at boot time when it shows?

I am on Ubuntu 11.10 and I want to keep the purple screen, THOUGH, sometimes I also would like to hit a shortcut at boot time so I can see what the OS is doing. Is there anyway to accomplish this? Or ...
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Unable to boot ubuntu 11.10 from external usb drive

I'm new to Ubuntu (and actually all things Linux) as of this morning, so please excuse any stupid mistakes I may be making. I recently bought an external hard drive for my newly built PC (that is ...
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Can I boot from a SD Card on a Dell Mini 9?

I have installed from the live USB (with Persistance) onto an SD Card. But when I reboot, even though I have selected USB devices in the Boot selection menu I get an OS not found error... Has anyone ...
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Can't boot to Ubuntu 11.10 after installation with Windows 7

I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a machine with Windows 7 already installed. I want to setup the dualboot environment. I have a block of unallocated disk space at the end of the disk (some blog post ...

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