Questions tagged [boot-repair]
Boot-Repair is a tool to fix Windows/Ubuntu problems either after installing Ubuntu or Windows. Use this tag if you used the software in any way.
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Invalid MBR Signature found for dual boot
My dual boot laptop (Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7) suddenly stopped booting. The GRUB menu did not show up. I tried the utility boot-repair and it did not even show "Recommended Repair" in the small ...
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"Insmod normal" command returns "attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
I've got the issue shown below:
error: attempt to reader write outside of disk 'hd0'
Entering rescue mode...
It happened in the past, so I tried
grub rescue> ls
(hd0) (hd0,msdos1)
grub rescue>...
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Windows 8 require repair after install Ubuntu
I just installed Ubuntu along with my Windows 8.1.
After installing Ubuntu and changed to boot priority to 1.Ubuntu 2.Window Boot, my Windows crash (Pic Provided).
Whenever I choose the windows ...
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Can't load Windows 10 after updating Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Previously, I have Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 installed on my laptop. Also I already configured the GRUB menu so it works perfectly fine. I was using Boot Repair once since my last problem and it ran ...
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Windows 8 boot failure after install of Lubuntu 17.04
I am new to Ubuntu and all of Linux. I installed Lubuntu 17.04 on my laptop that already had Windows 8 installed, to have a dual boot system. (Due to windows 8 being preinstalled, I don't have an ...
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Grub and Ubuntu disappeared after Windows update
I had Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04 installed in dual boot.
Roughly 125GB each.
After the Windows update the PC only showed me the grub rescue terminal. I could neither use Ubuntu nor use Windows.
I ...
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Unable to boot or start system after install ubuntu 16
I have installed Ubuntu 16 for the first time on my laptop and choose replace option while installing. After that I restart laptop and trying to start but I am getting following error:
I have tried ...
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Ubuntu does not boot anymore : stucked in grub prompt, boot-repair does not work
I have a machine equiped with a hardware RAID and a SSD.
It has a double boot installed, with Ubuntu 16 & Windows 10
When I choose to boot Ubuntu, I just get the grub prompt. After that, I have ...
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Can't boot from pendrive
Recently i've been trying to format my computer from Ubuntu 16.04LTS to Windows. I've already made the booting pendrive with Windows inside, but when i try booting from it, i get the following message:...
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Black Screen at boot after Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade
I perform an Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade from my Ubuntu 14.04. Everything went without issue but after restarting my computer I couldn't boot and were stuck in a black screen with an underscore ("_") ...
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Install Xfce & remove Gnome [closed]
I have installed xfce on ubuntu & removed gnome. Now its not booting up please give me suggestions to do correction to my pc
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Crashed dual boot system after deleting an almost empty sdc partition
I had an Ubuntu live usb that wasn't being formatted back properly through nautilus. I decided to use gparted, and saw what I know now was a necessary partition(?) it had 4kb and three partitions from ...
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"Lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation during sysini" message receive before entering my bios passphrase
I am new to linux and Ubuntu, I cannot seem to login to my system. I noticed this before I enter the passphrase, I receive the error messages:
Lvmetad is not active yet, using direct activation ...
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Ubuntu grub boot manager eep missing (Boot-info summary)
I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 into my LG gram 17 laptop alongside with Windows 10.
It worked well until i decided to change the boot priority - instead of going to windows default, going to ...
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how to fix fstab of one Ubuntu from older Ubuntu in multi-boot system
I have an old desktop PC (64bit) and an old laptop (32bit), on each I have 2 Windows and at least 2 Linux distros .
At the moment I have Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS installed.
After ...
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Can't dual boot on my Toshiba laptop
I have recently installed Ubuntu 16.04.2 on my Toshiba Satellite C55-B5299. At first, GRUB was not booting at all. I used boot-repair to try to fix this. However, whenever I boot, I get this...
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Attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0' after trying to install alongside
these days i was having problems with the speed of my system Ubuntu gnome 16.04 lts,so i decided to install along side it the same partition to see if it would be better,instead of that installation ...
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Error on Ubuntu boot up - "recovering journal" [closed]
Trying to figure out what this means:
I got into the GRUB menu, chose Advanced Options, boot in recovery mode, login as root, and I did:
root@xps:~# sudo fsck -f /
fsck from util-linux 2.27.1
e2fsck ...
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Help installing Ubuntu 16.04 on a Lenovo B570. Won't Boot
I'm attempting to install the latest version of Ubuntu desktop, 16.04 LST, on my old laptop, a Lenovo B570. Originally it ran windows 7, and I upgraded to windows 10 when it was free.
I downloaded ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu or Windows 10 after running Boot-Repair using USB
I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10, but when booting my laptop would automatically boot to Windows, so I used the installation USB to load Ubuntu and use the Boot-Repair program. However, doing ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu anymore : paste from boot repair
Lenovo t420 SSD
Not booting after bios reset to defaults. Can't seem to boot a ubuntu install disk from usb to try and correct the error. The drive is encrypted if that has any bearing. Have tried ...
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How to repair Grub if yannubuntu doesn't exist?
I am using Xubuntu live USB because I need to repair Grub (I am in mode grub rescue) but when I try to install boot repair it says this to me, with Wi-Fi online, of course:
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo ...
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Broken bootloader after shrinking Ubuntu for Windows 10
I have ran into a pretty major problem I'm having trouble fixing. Been at it for a few days and I'm just wondering if anyone can point me in a direction of something that might work.
So my situation ...
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Dual boot with Windows 10 broken after update
Until a few days ago I had a fine working dual boot with Ubuntu 16.10 and Windows 10, using Grub2. Then Windows decided it needed to perform some updates. After the update, my system booted directly ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 crashed and mounting failed
I installed ubuntu version two days before , but suddenly got this error while booting..
As in the image mounting failed on /root, and the error shows structure to be cleaned.
How can this be ...
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Grub not showing windows 10
I have already viewed a dozens of answers. I have a different problem here. I had windows 10 installed. I recently dual booted my lenovo ideapad 310 with ubuntu 16.04. But since then my grub menu is ...
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/sbin/init : no such file or directory | Not able to boot ubuntu desktop
I have been using Ubuntu Desktop for a while now, but today for some reason I am not able to start it. Here is what I see.
Here is what I have already tried :
Tried booting in recovery mode
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Why is "GRUB location" unavailable in Boot Repair UEFI mode?
I've been trying to dual-boot Windows 10 with Ubuntu and facing a lot of challenges with the fact that Windows 10 automatically boots in UEFI mode, and not wanting to reinstall Windows to support ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Installed on RAID 0 with mdadm followed by boot repair still fails to boot
My Ubuntu 16.04 was installed successfully with ubiquity --no-bootloader. Then, I ran boot-repair and rebooted. My computer still failed to reboot.
My boot-repair paste is this: http://paste2.org/...
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startup issue: minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. grub>
I'm really noobe. I've tried fixing issue by googling problem, but can't get this fixed. I tried starting up with USB stick, and to fix with Boot-repair. I get the message: GPT detected, please create ...
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Windows 10 does not boot after Ubuntu 16.04 installation
Can someone please give me a hand? I had a fully functioning Windows10, then decided to install dual-booting Ubuntu and now the system boots into Ubuntu, but I cant get back to my Windows. I have ...
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Can't boot without USB, grub-install and boot-repair both failed
Update #4: As predicted resetting the boot order didn't work: sudo efibootmgr -o 4,0,1,2 did nothing.
Update #3: See bottom
Update #2: Might be because of HP's issue. Please see Rod's answer. This ...
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Installing Ubuntu 16.04.2 alongside Windows 10 on an Acer Travelmate B117 [duplicate]
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 16 on my Acer Travelmate that came with a pre-installed Windows 10.
I installed Ubuntu from an USB device along with Windows 10. The installation was successful, but ...
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Recovering data from a non-booting HDD laptop hard drive [duplicate]
I am trying to recover data from my HDD 500 GB Seagate Momentus 7200.2 internal hard drive i use in my Dell Studio XPS 1640 with Vista Home Premium.
Here are the things I have tried:
I tried ...
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No internet connection after using boot-repair
I have problems with my internet connection after using boot-repair.
Wi-fi connected but can not be used even cannot be seen in ifconfig
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boot-repair not fixing boot issues
I have an ASUS laptop with Ubuntu dual booted with Windows 10 on separate partitions. The other day after booting into the Windows partition, I found that when I try to boot back to the Ubuntu ...
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black screen on dual boot - but not always (Win 7 / Ubuntu 16.04) [duplicate]
I know this is a common problem but even after like four days of reading through different forums I wasn't able to fix it. I'm fairly new to Linux, by the way, so sorry in advance.
Here's the ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 will not completely boot
I have Ubuntu 16.04 installed on a hard drive that exclusively runs Ubuntu. Therefore it is not dual boot system.
I had a sort of crash in which I had to press the reset button. When the system ...
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Windows 10 fails to boot after Ubuntu installation
I had a working dual boot configuration of win8 and Ubuntu 15.10 when I decided to delete win8 and install win10 that's where the problem started. After wiping out win8 and installing win10 I thought ...
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Repair grub after Ubuntu partition move/resize - BootRepair log
I have spent today moving/resizing my Ubuntu 16.04 partition on my dual boot T420s laptop.
I believe all has worked well, except that (as I was warned might happen), it has broken boot.
I have run ...
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boot-repair unallocated a secondary internal drive
Ok I had some boot issues which I managed to solved by reinstalling ubuntu on my primary disk (sda) before reaching to that point I used a program called boot repair (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/...
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Ubuntu 14.04 + Windows 8.1 Grub not showing (Boot-repair didn't work)
Have been using Ubuntu 14.04 + Windows 8.1 for a quite a while now and everything was ok. Yesterday I decided to clean up my ubuntu system with Ubuntu Cleaner Computer Janitor. I did already several ...
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Windows 7 does not boot from GRUB boot loader
I have just encountered a strange problem with my Ubuntu / Windows 7 / Windows XP setup.
When I switch on my laptop, the Linux bootloader appears and I select Ubuntu when I want to use Ubuntu and ...
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Booting Ubuntu on external HDD
I have successfully installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 on my external HDD including the bootloader. The problem is that when I disconnect HDD my computer, the computer says grub not found. I want it to boot ...
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Can Updates Be Installed When Booting Desktop from a Live-USB?
My new Dell Inspiron 15-3552 laptop (which came with 14.04 pre-installed) has an unstable desktop after I tried a general software update which froze part-way through. I tried to generate a Boot-Info ...
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|Ubuntu 16.04| -- booting from USB -- used boot-repair -- error: can't find command 'drivemap'. error: invalid EFI file path
update: ran a boot-repair, not sure what it does or if it helps
http://paste2.org/VNvMVOY0
i restarted and picked the option that was added (see below) but nothing changed
have no idea why any of ...
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Reboot and Select Proper Device, won't boot and doesn't seem to detect hard drive
I'm using Lubuntu 16.04 on my PC and then suddenly it hangs. After pressing the power button off, all of sudden it won't boot into Lubuntu and has Reboot and Select Proper Device during boot.
All i ...
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Reboot and Select Proper Device (Lubuntu 16.04) won't boot
I have Lubuntu 16.04 installed on my PC. And then all of sudden it won't boot into Lubuntu and has Reboot and Select Proper Device during boot.
I've already tried boot-repair and still it won't boot.
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Encrypted home: if system fails
I've been thinking of encrypting my home partition. The only thing that's making me hesitate right now is that there has been situations where my Ubuntu wouldn't boot (power failure that would corrupt ...
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Boot repair enable a repository containing grub2 packages
Got no Ubuntu 16.04 access after reinstalling Windows. I'm using Boot Repair with live USB version of Ubuntu 16.10. After clicking "Recommended repair" I got this message as shown in the below ...