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Ubuntu does not boot on retina Macbook Pro

I decided to install Ubuntu as my primary OS on my Retina MacBook Pro (2012), but sadly after installation it does not boot into the OS. Instead, I get the message "no operating system found". I only ...
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Flash Drive Boot Issue

I tried to install Ubuntu 13.04 onto a flash drive and everything seemed to go smoothly, but after it told me to restart (and I did), it said t insert a boot device (which should be the flash drive, ...
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How to Dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 using Windows 8 bootloader?

I have Dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 with separate /boot. But at startup, I want to directly boot into Windows 8 bootloader, and right there select Windows, or, Ubuntu. I have added entry using ...
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Multiple OS's, several drives, need a working boot manager

Okay, so I have several drives with various operating systems on various partitions. the main drive is a 200GB sliced into a primary for Ubuntu a swap and some storage. the other drives 2x350GB are ...
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Can the bootloader be stored outside the HDD?

If the Ubuntu boot loader is stored on the Hard Drive, is there an alternative to loading the boot loader from the hard drive? Can it be stored on alternate storage such as a CD or even an external ...
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Installed Cinnamon now 13.04 is frozen

I installed Cinnamon and when I booted, Raring froze. I logged out and removed Cinnamon via Synaptic. Rebooted and now I am unable to login to anything except a Guest Account (I had Unity set for ...
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since Quantal , I can't boot after an install. No grub menu

I have an issue with Ubuntu since Quantal, Raring is concerned too. After the Install I can't boot to the system. I have no Windows on my PC, I just have Ubuntu on both partitions : One as main ...
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My Ubuntu Boot behavior is Random

My newely installed Ubuntu on an HP Pavilion G7 is behaving weird in the loading (Booting) process. It sometimes loads from the first time, it sometimes stucks at a purple screen for over 4 minutes. ...
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Install on Second Hard Drive with startup boot option?

In theory, what I want to do is very simple, but I've done some google research and read some posts on this site and I'm still confused. I want to keep win7 on my primary C:\ drive, and install ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 bootloader doesn't start windows 7

I just installed ubuntu 11.10 alongside with Windows 7. Ubuntu starts and work fine. Instead, when i click on the last option: windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1) the bootloader reload itself and ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 does not start on MacBook Pro: Black screen

I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Pro running OSX 10.8 (the laptop itself is brand new as of March 2013, if that tells you something about the model.) However, when I boot Ubuntu, I'm ...
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Do I boot from a Live CD now that I'm stuck on grub rescue>

I've read all the details on how to fix getting stuck in grub, but I think I may have wiped out Ubuntu and somehow grub is still there. I get: grub rescue> error: unknown file system ls give me: (hd0) ...
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where is my ubuntu 12.10?

i have 4 partitions. 1 system part of windows. 2 windows installed(7 x64). 3 i common drive for temp files. 4 my drive for my personal data. i downloaded ubuntu 12.10 x64 shrinked my windows ...
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Grub boot problem on dual boot machine

I have three systems on my computer. I have had Windows for ages, than I installed Linux Mint and recently Ubuntu. Bootloader is using Mints Grub. How do I change it so it will be using Grub from my ...
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Where to install bootloader when installing a second Linux OS?

I want to try Bodhi Linux (which is very close to Ubuntu) beside the already installed Lubuntu Quantual (which was in a dual boot with WinXP). So, I want a 3-boot: to chose between these three at ...
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Boot from USB after Ubunutu installed on MacBook Air

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my MacBook Air, first gen, removing Mac OS X. The OS has gotten really screwy since the battery died while installed OS updates. So I wanna format the laptop and install ...
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Did EFI Partition ruin my hard drive?

I can't access my HDD (Drive D). After having trouble installing Ubuntu on my new EFI system, I couldn't boot either of the OS on my SSD (Drive C). I fixed that problem by running boot-repair, ...
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EasyBCD removed all boot menus

I recently tried to use EasyBCD to edit some things and apparently ended up corrupting it some how. I'm dual booting Windows 8 and Ubuntu. Windows boot manager pops up, now, and says: "Windows ...
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Install grub2 to a specific partition from Live CD

For some reasons I want to install grub2 to my Ubuntu partition(it's sda5) instead of MBR(grub2 will be chainloaded by another loader). Unfortunately, I can't do this. When I type sudo ...
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How do I handle grub rescue mode after installing burg?

I installed burg on my computer, and after restarting, grub comes up with the following message: GRUB loading. error: no such device: 9b16030c-08f8-4f5d-b228-63e13bca7839 Entering rescue mode... grub ...
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Can't get past boot menu after WUBI installation

I just tried to install Ubuntu 12.10 using the Windows Installer from the Ubuntu website on my Windows 7 Home Premium ASUS gamers laptop and while it appeared to install correctly, when I rebooted the ...
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Ubuntu kernel not present? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Ubuntu 12.04 (Wubi) not starting - root.disk corrupted When I launch and attempt to boot Ubuntu through the Windows Boot Manager, it takes me to a grub prompt, and when ...
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Add an entry for Ubuntu on Windows 8 boot loader

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 by creating free space in Windows 8 and then using that space to create 3 partitions, one for SWAP, one for GRUB (mounting point is /boot) and one for the actual OS. I ...
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Getting around UEFI boot loader to install Ubuntu

I recently added a new 3TB hd to my rig, but when I tried to reinstall Ubuntu I started having problems with the stock UEFI bios/bootloader that came with my asus m5a97 motherboard. I remember facing ...
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Ubuntu disappeared from boot menu after installing Fedora

I had Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 installed, where in I had the option to choose which to boot during startup. And all was fine. Now, I installed Fedora 15 by taking some space off the Ubuntu ...
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Lost ubuntu option from boot

I was using ubuntu 12.10 until i lost all options from boot in somehow, but I've restored my (2) windows 7 options successfully using windows 7 format DVD and solved the problem using command prompt ...
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Can't uninstall Ubuntu and install Mint [closed]

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10. I've "Mint" bootable CD. I just want to delete Ubuntu and Setup Mint. Firstly, I inserted my "Mint" disk and rebooted my PC. The installtion didn't start. Then I changed my ...
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Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows 7: BOOTMGR is missing when I tried to boot in Windows

So, I don't know what exactly how I managed to delete the MBR record on windows partition. But let me explain what I did next, I ran the ubuntu boot repair tool and now Windows is not even listed in ...
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How to use tboot with ubuntu

I recently stumbled upon the tboot project and Intel TXT technology. I also noticed that tboot is in the repository, but I cannot find any documentation on how to boot ubuntu (EFI installation) into a ...
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boot problem in ubuntu 12.04 using wubi

am totally new on Ubuntu. I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 with the help of wubi installer on my Desktop. I have windowsXP alreddy on my desktop. Ubuntu install correctly but when desktop restart to open ...
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How to write 2 iso file on one DVD

How to write ubuntu (iso) and super grub disk(iso) on one DVD? I want to boot them. Thanks
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Dual booting 12.10 and Win 7 - boots directly to Win 7

and thank you kindly for you help! I'll preface this with saying that I realize this is a common problem, with lots of trouble-shooting guides available online; however, after multiple attempts with ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 boot information required

While performing some disk operations, I just lost the Ubuntu 12.04 ISO image. Fortunately I had extracted the image contents to my thumb drive to install it through USB. But, my computer refused to ...
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UEFI not letting met boot Ubuntu after installing it for first time [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: 12.10 UEFI Secure Boot install I am trying to install Ubuntu for the first time. I am using an USB stick. At partition I used one of the hdd's I had and created a ...
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Boot path not found, cannot start OS

My desktop is 12.04 64bit, and it cannot boot from the hard drive anymore. When I attempt to it just is stuck on a blank screen with an blinking dash, and nothing happens. I checked with the bios ...
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What causes “error: file not found” in grub?

Question's self-explanatory, but... what could cause this to happen? I keep a repair disk around just in case, but what could cause this to happen?
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How to Install android image in laptop ? How to make android bootable image for laptop? [closed]

I have Android Source Code image and i want to install it on Laptop . I want to know how we made bootable image for laptop with android image. What I have to do so that laptop detect the android ...
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DBAN doesn't boot via USB stick and CD.

I followed a friend's advice and am using Ubuntu, and was enjoying it. I began to get system errors, tried to fix to no avail. It won't let me download anything to Ubuntu, saying unauthorized or ...
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Systems Not Booting after Ubuntu installation [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Failure to Boot Windows 7 after Ubuntu install I recently installed Ubuntu on my PC dual-booted with Windows 7. After rebooting it went through the usual startup ...
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error: no such partition during upgrade from 11.01 to 12.04

I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu 11.01 to 12.04 using update manager, at almost the end of the upgrading process, I was prompted to keep or remove unnecessary files so I removed them. But now, when ...
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problems with booting without usb support from bios

I have installed xubuntu 12.04 in an 60 Gig usb 2.0 external HD. I have been using that rather than my desktop. Recently I found myself in a fairly remote part of a third world country, with a very ...
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Booting screen flicker after clean install of 12.10 on Dell Inspiron 1525

I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Dell inspiron 1525 which was previously running on windows 7. During booting, immediately after the purple screen, my screen flickers like crazy (kind of switching ...
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WUBI installed Ubuntu not showing up at boot menu after Windows reinstallation

I recently installed 12.04 using WUBI installer in a separate partition. Because of some problem, I had to reinstall my Windows. Now the problem is that my Windows has recovered, but Ubuntu is not ...
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Cannot boot Windows 7 or boot from any bootable media

I deleted the Ubuntu partition via Windows 7. I rebooted the machine and I it drops to a Grub rescue prompt. I tried to boot from Ubuntu live DVD, USB and Windows 7 Repair CD, but didn't succeed. I ...
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Change boot animation in ubuntu 12.04

Is it possible to change to boot animation in 12.04? I know it was possible on 11.10... if it is, how do you do it?
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resizing partitions

I have the following configuration: sda1 1 GB maybe fat32 (windows recovery partition) sda2 40 GB ntfs(windows drive c) with boot flag sda3 around 100GB ntfs(storage partition) sda4 extended ...
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How to install a bootable UBUNTU 12.04/12.10 on OCZ PCI SSD Revodrive 80GB? (not X2 or X3)

Installation from an UBUNTU 12.04/12.10 liveCD works almost well if I do a clean, automatic full erase install without preconfiguring partitions, but only until the very last moment when I get an ...
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I need help with Grub and restoring Windows?

I started out with Windows XP and then I installed Zorin (a sub distro of Ubuntu) and then I installed Ubuntu. This was working great. Then I installed Windows 8 on yet another partition and couldn't ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 gets stuck on the loading screen [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Ubuntu hangs at purple screen My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? If I press Esc during the loading, the following is generated: ...
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Grub boot loader problems [closed]

I've had ubuntu for about two months and its worked flawlessly but yesterday when i booted it up I got a screen that said Grub 1.99 (Grub Rescue screen) It asks to hit tab to display commands except ...

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