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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Nvidia timeout error e0000000 on Dual System
Recently my Windows 10/Ubuntu system started creating this error when I boot Ubuntu (Windows is fine):
nvidia-gpu: i2c timeout error e0000000 ucsi_ccg 0-0008: i2c_transfer failed -110 ucsi_ccg 0-0008: ...
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Windows 10 upgrade kills grub and boot-repair doesn't help
I've just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 on my partitioned laptop that has Ubuntu 14.04 installed. Grub no longer appeared on boot so I ran boot-repair from an Ubuntu liveUSB. This didn't ...
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After a failed kali linux install, my non-related ubuntu removed the sidebar, all snap apps, login screen, and auto screen lock [duplicate]
I am very new to Linux and have used it as my main OS for less than 2 weeks.
I have tried to install Kali Linux on my computer on a different SSD from my main Ubuntu SSD. I failed to install Kali and ...
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Can't boot to Ubuntu after reinstalling Windows
I had Ubuntu installed with Windows in dual boot configuration. I had some issues with Windows so I decided to reinstall it. I deleted the Windows partition and reinstalled Windows there. I also ...
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Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 but get message Oh no! Something has gone wrong
Tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 and got: Oh no Something has gone wrong A problem has occurred and the system cant recover. Please logout and try again
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Ubuntu 22.04 slow startup in Dual Boot Setup
So I have been facing a problem with my laptop running Ubuntu 22.04 (18.04 until recently) on a dual boot setup. Problem is that Ubuntu takes a very long time to startup (I get the login screen after ...
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OS Not Booting Up
For a while, my OS hasn't been able to install updates. I ran sudo apt autoremove and a partial upgrade when prompted by the installer. Seemed to go okay. I'm now upgraded to 22.04.
I reboot and the ...
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Cannot boot to Ubuntu anymore (Windows 11 - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS dual boot)
I have a Windows 11 - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS -dual boot on my device (Lenovo Ideapad 5) and I am currently not able to boot to Ubuntu. The issues started after I booted to Windows after a longer break (and ...
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How to re-install 22.04LTS without reformatting disk or overwriting /home, /opt, and the like
When I have gone from 18.04LTS to 20.04LTS to 22.04LTS, the upgrade has been done in place without requiring a "blank" harddrive and without damaging non-system directories such as /home, /...
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How to restore Grub after a unbuntu upgrade
I upgraded from ubuntu LTS 16 desktop to ubuntu LTS 18 destop. Now the grub does not work and it goes to Grub Rescue mode directly.
I tried Boot Repair (https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/...
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I failed to update to the new LTS release and appear to have messed up the OS
A little over a week ago I updated my Ubuntu server from Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. I use AnyDesk to remote control the server because of access issues. I initiated the update, input my ...
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How can I find out the md5sum of boot-repair-disk.ISO?
I have downloaded boot-repair-disk.ISO, but it is recommended to check the md5sum. Previous downloads have not worked possibly because the download was corrupted. At present running Kubuntu 16.04 on ...
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Failed to boot after restore with Timeshift
First of all, I want to state that I looked for similar answers to my problem and it did not work in my case, including here Failed to mount /boot/efi
Here are my system details with desk version: ...
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Boot errors Ubuntu 20.04
For a couple of weeks now when booting I get multiple errors. Ubuntu still launches and I don't see any problems, but of course I am worried. I used boot-repair, which seems to have reduced the ...
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My laptop is not booting it's stuck and getting an ACPI Error
My laptop is not booting. It's stuck at a black screen and getting an ACPI Error.
Error: Abortion method
ACPI BIOS Error Could not resolve symbol AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error
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GNU GRUB Minimal BASH-like line editing when boot after Ubuntu reinstall
I normally reinstall Ubuntu every couple months. I saved my important files in a hard drive and did a full reinstall, formatting my PC. After that whenever I boot my computer it opens Minimal BASH-...
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How do I get my HP laptop to boot into grub from my new efi file?
I have an HP Pavilion Sleekbook 14 laptop that I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 dual boot with the original windows 8. I used boot-repair to get set up to boot into grub.
My issue is that I have not ...
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HP Laptop Forcing Windows 10 Recovery Screen After Ubuntu Installation
I downloaded Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS, wrote it onto a bootable USB, and installed it to replace Windows 10. The installation succeeded, but it will not boot the new OS. It instead takes me directly to the ...
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"Invalid system disk" after "There are differences between boot sector and its backup"
I made a live Linux system on a USB pen drive using Rufus (MBR partition scheme) and everything was working fine except for a large number of warnings and critical error messages I got from dmesg. ...
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Can not boot anymore after a boot repair
I upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 on my Toshiba satellite z930. Ubuntu is the only OS on this computer (windows 8 was wiped right away).
Everything went great, except that the following message appeared:
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Can't find Windows boot manager in bios
I recently installed Ubuntu by dualbooting it on my windows laptop now windows boot manager is missing in bios and Ubuntu is showing up. I have to access windows by grub bootloader. Please help me to ...
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On boot my machine is just showing black screen and a terminal,how can I set it back to normal?
On boot my machine is just showing black screen and a terminal,how can I set it back to normal?
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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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Boot Repair doesn't work
first at all excuse my English.
I am using Ubuntu 21.10 dual boot with Windows. My problem started when in the Ubuntu terminal I entered the following command:
mv /* /folder/folder
I was in the ...
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GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-Boot partition -- but we are on full UEFI!
I had a pre-existing Windows 10 & Ubuntu 18.04 dual boot, in UEFI mode, working with grub2. I previously used Boot-Repair to get that working. They are on separate disks.
I wiped and re-installed ...
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Cant enable gdm3 after following a tutorial on how to remove KDE from ubuntu
Every time I startup I now have to press ctrl + alt + f3 and type something along the lines of
sudo systemctl start gdm3
if I don't do that then my pc will just be stuck on the bios logo and nothing ...
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Restarting BIOS after dual boot failure
I have the problem I explain in another question, Dual boot isn't working; cannot come back to Windows 10 which was closed bc is off-topic, but fortunately I received some useful advice.
Considering ...
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Can't boot into kubuntu after replacing Manjaro on second drive [Dual-Boot Setup with Windows on first drive]
I have trouble fixing my dual boot setup (Windows on the first, Kubuntu on the second drive). I had previously installed Manjaro on the second drive and the installation of Kubuntu (overwriting ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu and Zorin
I had installed Zorin 16.1 on my laptop. I installed Ubuntu 20.04. Now, I cannot boot into Zorin because now ubuntu option on boot loader refer to Ubuntu os. In other word, Ubuntu and Zorin create the ...
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Slow boot: "Dependency failed for /mnt/usb-NAND_USB2DISK-0:0" and "A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-id/usb-NAND_USB2DISK-0:0"
my computer has been booting really slow lately. when i check the boot logs while it shows this.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for /mnt/usb-NAND_USB2DISK-0:0.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Local File ...
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unable to boot windows or ubuntu and Maind Partition became unallocated after changing boot partition's file system
boot-repair-4ppa200 [20220324_2347]
============================== Boot Info Summary ===============================
=> Grub2 (v2.00) is installed in ...
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After I installed Ubuntu on SSD Fedora in NVME on no longer available
I have NVME and SSD both on my PC. I installed and used Fedora on NVME, but I decided to switch to Ubuntu and installed it on SSD, leaving Fedora untouched. However, GRUB only sees SSD with Ubuntu now....
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I cant seem to see my internal hd via my running installation on my ext hd
How/Can I see/view/repair my Internal HDD from my current, up and running External HDD (20.04)... Ubuntu 20.04 running on my ext drive cannot seem to see my internal drive(s). The installation on the ...
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Ubuntu laptop boots in EFI Shell instead of OS
starting up my laptop this morning running Ubuntu goes directly into EFI shell. Not sure what this failure might be. I have reset a few times and gone into the Boot Manager to see anything unusual in ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS fails to boot and returns to boot menu
Every time I try to boot Ubuntu, it goes black screen for like 10-20 seconds, then turns off and goes back to the boot menu (GRUB)
I've tried recovery, which stops at loading initial ramdisk, the ...
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ubuntu 20.04 boot stuck on boot /dev/nvme0n1p8: clean , ...files, ... blocks
I am using ubuntu 20.04 with dual boot. And I am very new to the ubuntu. But suddenly my ubuntu stuck on a black page and it says: /dev/nvme0n1p8: clean , ...files, ... blocks.
I try purge nvidia but ...
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Why GRUB menu does not show?
So, I've installed UBUNTU 20.04 recently, and there is no way to show the GRUB menu... I've tried reinstalling ubuntu, I've tried Boot-Repair tool on live ubuntu, I've changed all the settings in BIOS,...
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Boot hangs after sddm removal
I recently installed sddm, but after trying and not liking it decided to uninstall it. However, on a restart, the system hangs before getting to a login screen. I can't access anything in the system ...
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What is boot-repair telling me to do here
I'm examining boot-repair to "maybe" fix a problem I'm having with my machine booting to a black screen with just a cursor.
I have another post on the many, many things I've tried, and found ...
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Grub2 re-installation failed with boot-repair
I have a MSI mother board and a SSD drive for dual system booting.
It worked fine until suddenly it showed cannot find memory block on hd2 or something like that. I didn't pay attention and rebooted ...
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Ubuntu won't boot at start up I have to go into BIOS
I'm running Ubuntu 17.10. I have it installed on a hard drive, and have another SSD (which is empty). When I turn on my PC it boots up to a black screen with a flickering underscore in the top right ...
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boot repair fails to help : The current session is in BIOS-compatibility mode
on boot up it goes directly to the dreaded grub prompt
Ubuntu 20.04 was running fine ( /dev/sda5 ) until I deleted ( in gparted ) an unused partition /dev/sda6 which then automatically renamed the ...
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ldlinux.bss ldlinux.sys installation [closed]
i have formated my computer by using bootable usb that i have created with rufus program.
when creating the usb the rufus sent a massage that the ldlinux.sys and ldlinux.bss files are not included and ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 not starting after upgrading to 19.10
I upgraded ubuntu 19.04 to 19.10 and it started working a few hours ago but later when I turned on my laptop (lenovo B50) ubuntu isn't starting or it is lagging and freezing with a black screen. How ...
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Errors while installing Ubuntu 20.04 on a Mac Mini A1993
Idecided to install Ubuntu on my Mac Mini, and delete the macOS partition. While installing Ubuntu 20.04 on my Mac Mini 2018 model A1993 I came across some errors and the installer wasn't able to ...
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Can't install Ubuntu 21.10 on my laptop
So a few months ago I decided to install Ubuntu 21.10 on my ASUS X541U laptop from a live USB device, everything went fine and could use it for a few days, but I couldn't set up wifi so I resinstalled ...
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Boot hangs at GRUB prompt instead of GRUB menu
I installed Ubuntu 21.10 on a new machine. Then I needed to dual boot Windows 10, so I booted to a live USB and shrunk the Ubuntu partition. Windows installed fine, but apparently squashed GRUB. I ...
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Cannot Boot Ubuntu after attempting to run a gparted
My nice ubuntu VM on HyperV ran out of disk space. I grew the VHDX file and then attempted to expand the boot partation but didn't get far. Now I'm unable to properly boot; /dev/sda1 will not mount ...
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Ubuntu Desktop 21.10 64bit fails to boot setup screen on RPi 4B+
Just wanna know as I had the same problem for my RPi 4B+. It bootup, but then it won't show anything or just does not show any setup screen after turning on the device aka no display... Can anyone ...
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PC still booting to GNU GRUB even after boot-repair (DELL G7)
I have an issue on my Dell G7 7588. After I runned boot-repair on USB live, after rebooting the same message of Grub GNU 2.0 appears "minimal bash like-line editing is supported..."
I've ...
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