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Ubuntu 13.04 not booting after upgrade from 12.10
This is duplicate post from here
After upgrading to 13.04, I was able to boot into ubuntu.
I made change a line in grub from
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
to
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Launcher does not pop in - is out permanently [duplicate]
I have upgraded my ubuntu to 12.10 and the launcher is out permanently. It does not pop in thus my screen is smaller and very uncomfortable. Is there any setting i can change to make it pop in and out ...
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Cloning via Clonezilla gives Grub Rescue unknown Filesystem AFTER first boot
I have two external hds one 80gb 2nd 160gb. I want to clone 'disk-disk' from 80gb to 160gb. Now because source is smaller I manually partitioned my 160gb using fsck in cmd mode of Clonezilla. The ...
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Booting into ubuntu 12.10
When I first installed ubuntu 12.10 the boot loaded quickly without going through a long loaded screen. Now I get the long screen of all the drivers and recovery before it finally boots. Is there a ...
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boot-folder too small for upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04
When updating my Ubuntu from 12.10 to 13.04 I get the message
'Your boot folder is too small, make more space'
although my harddrive has still plenty of place left.
How can I make that boot ...
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Ubuntu efi portable
I need to install Ubuntu on my USB pendrive 3.0 in order to have my "portable computer" everywhere i go. BUT i need it to work also on EFI systems. I've tryied by installing ubuntu on a VirtualBox hd ...
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black screen with blinking cursor
Suddenly my 12.10 desktop went into a black screen. I couldnt do anything so I power cycled. Now I get it on boot. I can't do anything. Shift doesn't work to get into grub. Ctrl, alt f1 doesn't work ...
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Grub Rescue Unknown Filesystem Error. Grub Corrupted or Filesystem?
Now it has happened twice & have been pulling my hairs now...
I have installed xubuntu on my external hardisk & have been using it for about 3 months. It has three partitions, one of 500 mb ...
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Ubuntu 12.10, I can't clean up space in boot directory
I'm trying to update but it can't and tells me that I need to clear up space in the boot directory but I can't remove anything from it and the sudo command does nothing. Below is the actual message I ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 failing to boot
I'm having a problem launching Ubuntu.
So I'm currently dual booting Ubuntu and Windows, and when I launch Ubuntu, the screen goes dead (not black, dead). This problem started recently, for no ...
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Ubuntu will no longer load
I have a Samsung Series 9 NP900X3A-A03US laptop on which I put a brand new Kubuntu install last week, using the 12.10 x64 image. This installation included using full disk encryption for the whole ...
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Blackscreen after boot ubuntu 12.10
I have a dual boot (w7, ubuntu 12.10 ) laptop. Everything was OK since some weeks. Now I am unable to boot my ubuntu 99 times of a hundred.
The process start with the bios settings and all, then grub ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit won't boot, freezes on black screen
don't know much about Ubuntu but will try to be as specific as possible. After updating from 12.10 it auto-restarted, the screen went to black and froze there. I restarted it manually and got to the ...
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Drivers corrupted after update for first time?
I had dual booted Ubuntu 12.10 with Windows 7 on my Laptop.
After installing I observed that the fan was on all the time, resulting in huge electricity usage.
There was an alert that I had ~200 ...
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Monitor sleeps during boot
After I select ubuntu from GRUB while booting, sometimes the monitor will go to sleep.
I have tried editing boot commands (pressing 'e' while in GRUB), but to no avail. Sometimes it will boot to ...
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Upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10 resulted in boot process sticking with “The disk drive for /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 is not ready or present”
I just performed an upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, and everything seemed to go as expected. As the upgrade was finishing I was asked to restart the computer, which I did. Once I restarted, however, the ...
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I've downloaded wubi 12.10 but it throws me an error [duplicate]
I have Windows 7 and I've downloaded wubi 12.10 and installed it without problems,
but when I boot my computer and select Ubuntu it appears an error:
try (hd0,0): NTFS5: No wubildr
try (hd0,1): ...
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Booting from live USB of Ubuntu 12.10 stops at black screen
Using liveUSB I created a bootable USB with Ubuntu 12.10 desktop. When I boot from the USB it always stops at a black screen. How can I tell what's going on and how to fix it?
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User account problem
I am using ubuntu 12.10 and it is charming. I have installed several programs working smoothly all in a USB stick 32GB. However today I made an administrator account after that when I rebooted I was ...
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Installed ubuntu 12.10 from cd, now I can't boot my computer
So, I had windows 7, wanted to reinstall it onto a new HDD but since I no longer have the installation disk this proved tricky. So I thought, let's go with ubuntu then.
Installed ubuntu 12.10 from cd, ...
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Stuck at Purple Screen for some Kernels, but not for all
After updating the Kernel the usual boot gets stuck with a purple screen. If I choose to start from the Kernel 3.5.0-17 everything still works fine, but it is not possible to start from newer kernel ...
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What to do to install Ubuntu 12.10 in Virtual PC on windows 7 enterprise?
I had review many answers of how to install UBUNTU in Virtual PC and I tried them all but they all failed. I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
I am using windows 7 enterprise. I had created the ...
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Trouble installing Ubuntu 12.10 on Macbook Pro [duplicate]
i converted the ISO file into a IMG image. Made the Bootable Drive, restart and choose to boot from drive.
When it boots from the drive, I get secure boot not enabled.
Then I get try Ubuntu and ...
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Upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10: Black screen with Intel HD 4000
Yesterday I updated Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10. I also had to reinstall GRUB, but after rebooting my machine and selecting "Ubuntu" from the list, a black screen appeared.
Following this suggestion, ...
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Ubuntu hangs on start on system that have Windows 7
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 using Live-USB stick on a system that have Windows 7 in Asus 1025ce, but after selecting Ubuntu in boot menu, system not started in first time and these messages ...
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Dual Boot Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7 64-Bit - separate internal HDDS - Grub rescue error when second HDD removes
I have successfully installed ubuntu 12.10 on a second internal HDD on my Dell box (Win 7 being on the other HDD). Initially had to run boot repair to get the grub menu to display on boot up - after ...
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Brand new computer, USB doesn't boot Ubuntu w/blue-ray plugged in
This seems to be somewhat different than similar questions I've looked through. I'm not really a programmer, and this is my first go at using any Linux build, so I've got no clue how to troubleshoot.
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New computer boot/live usb issue Ubuntu 12.10
built a new computer yesterday and the specs are as follows:
AMD A6 5400k process with AMD Radeon HD7540D graphics (built-in)
FM2-A75IA-E53 mobo
8GB Crucial RAM
I can install and run Ubuntu 12.04. ...
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How to write Ubuntu in boot.ini?
I have windows xp.
It has ntldr and boot.ini on
multi 0 disk 0 rdisk 0 partition 1
and load Windows from
multi 0 disk 0 rdisk 0 partition 3
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on second hard drive and I ...
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hide user from login GUI
If I add a user to hidden-users then they won't show from the GUI user login page?
thufir@dur:~$
thufir@dur:~$ cat /etc/lightdm/users.conf
#
# User accounts configuration
#
# NOTE: If you have ...
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grub boot splash options
A clean install of Ubuntu 12.10 to a laptop (from server CD, and then xubuntu-desktop package) works well. However, during boot there are sometimes text messages.
How do I change this so that no ...
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Installing Leopard on a PowerBook G4 using Ubuntu [closed]
So I stupidly bought a USB on eBay with leopard on it to install on my PowerBook G4. Finding out afterward that I can't boot to a usb on this 12" 1.5Ghz 512MB with combo drive PowerBook G4.
So I ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 won't load, stays at purple screen [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu and have been using for a couple of weeks now with no problems but now it suddenly won't boot up and freezes like 30 seconds after I pick "Ubuntu" on the boot menu (I hear the disk ...
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Boot issues: Ubuntu 12.10
I'm a complete newbie so I apologise in advance if I'm leaving out any important details. I'm running a Lenovo thinkpad t530 with Ubuntu 12.10 .
My issues started with "low screen resolution ...
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Xorg crash when i updated last xorg-core [closed]
After updating the last version of xorg-core my system (Ubuntu 12.10) is freezing right after boot screen. How do i restore the last stable version of xorg-core? And how do i get data from logs?
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cannnot boot to text mode with r/w fileystem
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 server to a laptop, and the grub file is along the lines of:
setparams 'Ubuntu'
recordfail
gfxmod $linux -gfxmod
set root ='hd0,msdos/'
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Ubuntu 12.10 sometimes crashes when booting [duplicate]
I sometimes (several times a week) experience a complete crash when booting up Ubuntu 12.10 (64-bit). Not only GUI fails to load, even hitting Ctrl + Alt + F1 does nothing, and I have to power off the ...
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No grub menu in dual boot with Windows 7
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10, and once I restarted and changed the boot order to normal, it just went like a normal boot into Windows 7. I couldn't even select which OS I wanted to boot into. So ...
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ubuntu 12.10 upgrade grub repair
I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 and got some error messages from grub. Now grub seems to be broken and my system no longer reboots.
I have tried to boot from LiveCD and use boot-repair, but it gets ...
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After installing VirtualBox my host slows down
After installing the Virtual Box 4.1.18 my host (Ubuntu 12.10) boots about 15 seconds lately than normal. A blinking underscore("_") takes the time before the Ubuntu start up page. How to figure this ...
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How to find out why my ubuntu 12.10 boots slower than before
I have a fresh copy of ubuntu 12.10. This is the only operating system in my notebook. It was fast when I first install it. but now a black screen with blinking cursor takes some considerable time, ...
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fail load amd-ucode/microcode (installing pack cause critical error)
dmesg | grep microcode
failed to load file amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin
Now as ive been reading online, this is a cosmetic error and none critical, and could easily be avoided by installing ...
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Replace ubuntu boot menu (iMac)
I have a 21.5" iMac (Intel based), and I recently installed Ubuntu on a 90GB partition. After I installed Ubuntu, I noticed that whenever i boot my machine I get GRUB where I can select my OS (Mac or ...
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wubi and old computer
ubuntu 12.10. x32.
old computer (msi 865pe neo)
2 hard disks. 1st - 80 Gb with Win XP (ata channel, 3 parts C (main, active) ,D(logical),E(system))
2nd - 500 Gb (Sata channel, 2 parts F(100gb, free), ...
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Booting Ubuntu 12.10 from usb to fix boot manager and get the running in low graphics mode
Ok, so I already installed ubuntu 12.10 a little while ago and while trying to fix windows (main OS) microsoft had me do the start up repair which erased or made the boot manager dissapear (not sure a ...
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Installed kernel, and printer driver - No Unity?
I ran installation of printer drives for Epson Stylus S22 (From original website)
The most recent installs are:
2013-04-10 12:06:53 install linux-image-3.5.0-27-generic:amd64 <none> ...
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Ubuntu on Asus F201E
My grandpa just bought a new netbook, the Asus f201e, shipped with Windows 8 :( After 5 minutes he said "I don't want this crap" and so I ow try to install Ubuntu 12.10 64bit there. Have the iso ...
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Error booting full Ubuntu from external USB hard drive on desktop preloaded with Windows 8
I've just installed Linux for the first time, except I installed it on a Seagate USB Hard Drive (500GB, USB 3.0, 3 Partitions: 10 GB Ubuntu/1GB swap/The Rest NTFS) from a Live USB drive
(4GB) made in ...
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How to increase performance of booting?
I am experiencing slow booting sequence from 12.10.
Only chromium browser is selected for startup and it does enable automatically under startup applications.
I try to restart and it may take 15 ...
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Can not boot UBUNTU on DELL Latitude 5520 [duplicate]
I can not start Ubuntu 12.10 from Live USB.
Dell Latitude E5520, Intel Cote i5, 4MB RAM, 256 GB HDD.
USB boot working well.
Live USB created in Untebootin.
The startup screen starts and I have options ...
