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GRUB2: When I choose Windows 8, error invalid EFI file path

I had a problem with install Ubuntu 13.04 next to Windows 8. I have a Dell inspiron 15 notebook with UEFI. In Boot-setup I changed to Legacy Boot on and switched UEFI boot off. Then I installed ...
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grub2 C/H/S value error on Laptop Second hard drive (ODD)

I was living happily with my one hard drive in laptop then I installed a SSD as my first (hd0) then installed the old drive in laptop's second hard drive caddy in CD/DVD drive bay. now I can't boot ...
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Can't boot Chromium OS from USB! [closed]

I've recently downloaded the vanilla chromium os from hexxah and have written it on my usb stick. I followed every step and plugged it into my laptop. After I changed the boot order I managed to boot ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 won´t boot …help pls [closed]

i installed Ubuntu over Win Vista yesterday, and it all worked fine. No Problem due the installationsprogress. But now if i start my PC and choose Ubuntu the following Screen appears : Gave ...
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lenovo g575 grub2 loopback boot sata driver

On another machine I can use grub2 to loopback mount just fine. On this Lenovo G575 I get the following when I try to loopback boot many different ISO image using grub2, so I think there could be a ...
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hd0 read error; tried boot repair still won't boot [closed]

I have tried to boot from grub rescue from console. I have also tried boot repair, but it didn't help. Here is the full boot repair log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5668816/ Boot repair reports that the ...
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Fixing Windows 8 after removing ubuntu

I tried installing Ubuntu (successfully) on my Windows 8 machine so i could develop in c and it worked decently for a while. I did this without wubi. However, I later got a virtual machine to run ...
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Issue while installing ubuntu as dual boot [duplicate]

I have Windows 8 professional presintalled on my hp pavilion m6. I need to install ubuntu 13.04 as dual boot. The windows partition i created is not detected on ubuntu installation. How do I install ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 cannot boot after system crash

So, I was using Ubuntu with Opera, recording the screen with Kazam. I was watching videos on Youtube and after a while Ubuntu hanged insanely. I forcibly shut it down by pressing the power button. ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu 13.04 (two Xeons) w/out nolapic parameter

Whenever I attempt to boot, I get as far as the following messages and then it appears to freeze. BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found EDD information not available. Based on other ...
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No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed windows 8

I install ubuntu 13.04 on my PC which has windows 8 alreday installed. During install, I checked the second option (about LVM partitions). After install, I cannot boot neither on ubuntu nor in ...
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UEFI mode problem with windows 8 on sony vaio

This is Manorath. I tried all the options explained in the help page regarding uefi mode when I boot my sony vaio which already contain windows 8 in uefi mode when I am using the ubuntu cd as my first ...
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Boot issues after attempting dual-boot setup with Windows 8

(I did quite a bit of messing around before asking for help, which in retrospect was a mistake, so the BootInfo might be more useful than my retelling of the events: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5659500/) ...
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QUESTiON: Dual Boot Launch Windows Noramlly Ok? [closed]

Ok I am new to Ubuntu and have a question. I have a Ubuntu live CD and copied all the files from it except for Wubi on to my 500 GB external har dive. I changed my boot option for #1 as being ...
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13.04 Only booting on occasion

I've been having an awful lot of trouble with Nvidia drivers recently. I've managed to get almost everything working nicely except for the fact that the system only seems to boot when it feels like ...
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Windows 8 doesn't boot after installing Ubuntu (UEFI)

I installed Ubuntu with my UEFI installation of Windows 8 (with windows 7 boot-loader because I don't know how to recover it), and after grub installed, I was no longer able to boot Windows 8. I tried ...
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In the recovery menu, how do i Enable Networking and then go into the root shell prompt?

Whenever i click on "Enable Networking" it just seems to open me up to a permanent command prompt, not letting me go through any of the Recovery Menu options. I'm pretty sure it's a simple solution, ...
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Customizing Boot Menu

I have a dual boot system: Windows 8/ Ubuntu 13.04. I have multiple questions to ask regarding the boot menu: There are two instances of Windows 8, how do I make it to 1? The default OS is Ubuntu, ...
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Unable to boot into Ubuntu

I installed Ubuntu 13.04 and then dual booted it with Windows. Now, when I boot into my system, the selection menu does not come up. Instead, it directly boots into Windows. Is there any way to have ...
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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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Dual-boot Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8: Windows doesn't boot

I have installed Ubuntu with dual boot to a preinstalled windows 8 on a Lenovo E-135. I disabled fast start in windows 8 before installation and shrank the partition to give place for Ubuntu. All went ...
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What have I to do to change from BIOS to (U)EFI after installation?

I have here a new bought laptop. It's the first device with (U)EFI I was working with. At first I did not get the installation running, so I switched back to BIOS legacy mode and installed ubuntu in ...
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GRUB2 unable to change/find my grub [closed]

I have MINT 14(ubuntu based) Linux installed, dual boot with windows 8. After Mint install, I've been able to change my grub with grub-customizer, worked...Then I, for some tutorial of battery saving, ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Boot problem! [duplicate]

Im using Ubuntu 12.04! parallel to Windows7! My default loader is windows loader! When i select ubuntu grub loader comes up! when i select the normal ubuntu boot! the usual purple'ish screen comes up! ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 - Black screen with unresponsive cursor

Few days ago I installed ubuntu 13.04 on a new machine without big issues. Today, after the boot, I have this situation: grub correctly loaded and normal boot normal purple screen with red dots ...
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Pb boot after update 12.04.1 to 12.04.2 : initctl: Event failed

Anyone can help me ? I've a Ubuntu Server 12.04 and after an update from 12.04.1 to 12.04.2, i cannot boot normally. I must boot on recovery mode and then choose the resume option. In the boot.log, ...
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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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ASUS UX31A keeps looping ASUS Preload Recovery and won't boot Win7 after installing ubuntu

The title pretty much says everything. It looks like I have the same problem as Unable to boot Windows after installing Ubuntu 12.04 - error: invalid efi file path but I already cycled that about 20 ...
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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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No such parition, grub rescue

I have a sony viao laptop with windows 7. I have no access to Windows CD/DVD now. I dual booted with Ubuntu 13.04 and everything was working fine. I then copied all my data from windows C drive to ...
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How can I make Ubuntu the default boot option on a newer laptop (UEFI)?

I have a HP Spectre XT that I installed Ubuntu on. I have turned "Secure Boot" off and turned on "Legacy Support" in the settings. This laptop has UEFI and it always boots to Windows 8 rather than the ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu after hard reset. (GRUB issues) [duplicate]

I have a laptop with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 installed. Windows crashed, and I have to get a repair disk for it, so in the meantime, I'm using Ubuntu, however when I went to boot Ubuntu I got ...
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Can't boot to Ubuntu 13.04 after installing

I know that there is lots of people with the exact same problem, but I can't get an answer from another place (I've really been trying for hours), so here is my problem. I got Ubuntu 13.04 on my CD ...
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Ubuntu installation and startup problem [duplicate]

I am a newbie to Ubuntu. I just installed Ubuntu in my friend's computer and it completed successfully. But when I tried doing the same in my computer, it didn't turn out to be successful. I installed ...
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Lenovo Y500 Dual Booting Ubuntu and Windows 8: Stuck on Purple Screen

I'm installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Lenovo y500 with nvidia geforce 750M using uefi. What I've done so far Regular install with Ubuntu disc. (through legacy) Boot repair (recommended) (through ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 boots oddly?

By default, Ubuntu 13.04 is supposed to boot graphically, correct? My Ubuntu install boots up half graphical and half verbosely. Also, I have to reboot twice in order to boot, meaning I press the ...
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Unable to boot into Ubuntu (Dual-boot Win 7 and Ubuntu)

I downloaded and installed the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit just now. I followed this EasyBCD guide to install Ubuntu on my computer as previous attempt to install Ubuntu normally was unsuccessful (GRUB ...
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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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/casper/initrd.lz: read error when booting from live USB

When I try to boot 13.04 from a live USB it immediately goes to an error message that says /casper/initrd.lz: read error @ 21612272 I tried redownloading the iso and putting it on a different ...
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Filesystem check or mount failed

I'm using latest Kubuntu ( kernel 3.8.0.19). For some reason I got this when I restarted my PC Filesystem check or mount failed. A maintenance shell will now be started. CONTROL - D will ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 & UEFI mode

On a new Dell XPS 8500, I tried to install a fresh xubuntu 12.04.2 with EFI enabled but it did not work: the 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install in /target/ As specified in ...
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Install Ubuntu on a second harddrive without messing with other drives or main Windows 7 bootloader?

Lets just say I have 3 hard drives: c: 500 gig windows 7 with win7 boot loader d: 1tb nothing on it (but I want a Linux os on it... Ubuntu, debian, fedora ect) g: 3tb random stuff I want Ubuntu and ...
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new to ubuntu and have massive problems getting it to install

So I'm new to ubuntu and I'm having some problems with the install of linux. It woks fine from the CD and seems to install but I get this message when I restart the computer: GRUB loading ...
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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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Will windows 8 work after i install Ubuntu 12.04?

I had searched and found many GRUB related problem after installing windows 8 over ubuntu or ubuntu over windows 8.So i fear to install ubuntu 12.04. So What is the measures i need to take while ...
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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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13.04 - Making Windows Boot Loader the default instead of Grub 2

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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Ubuntu not booting after upgrade failed [from quantal to raring]

I am having a big time getting my laptop to boot again. I have launch the upgrade process yesterday before going to sleep and today upon waking up, I saw that the upgrade somehow failed to complete ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 won't boot after grub

I ran into a problem with Ubuntu 13.04. I installed it without any problems. When I reboot my machine it hangs on a black screen with a blinking cursor after grub. I tried recovery mode as well ...
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Start ubuntu13.04 and then it turns to black screen [duplicate]

I do need help. I just updated 12.10 to 13.04 but the problem occured. Every time I start my laptop it turns to a black screen. After the grub and the purple screen. And I also hear the voice from ...

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