Questions tagged [boot]
Use this tag if you have trouble booting Ubuntu or you have questions about the bootup process.
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Xubuntu hangs on boot screen
I've recently been trying to install Xubuntu on my older laptop but i've been having some problems. Whenever I try to boot from my usb, it makes it to the loading screen with the spinning circle but ...
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Unable to dual boot windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 on separate drives
I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my main SSD and windows on my secondary hard drive for games. After a lot of hassle with trying to preserve my original ubuntu I bend the knee to installing Ubuntu ...
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Black Screen with Cursor After Nvidia Update in Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
Trying to "fix" an error, I seem to have made things worse. Upon boot, I was getting a failure of some sort. I got details by trying to send a bug report and it said it was something about building ...
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Copy an OS drive with all its partitions, to a bigger hard drive
I have a Windows machine, and it's OS is alongside with the a few more partitions on one hard drive.
I want to use Ubuntu live cd, in Order to copy that OS drive to another, bigger hard drive and ...
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How to remount a disk that goes into read-only mode without rebooting?
I have a kernel bug that makes my SSD go into read-only mode. To fix this I have to reboot the system, do fsck /dev/nvme0n1p2, and then reboot again to make everything work.
Instead of doing the ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 installer can't find SSD
So I just got a new laptop (Asus VivoBook S15) that came with a preinstalled Win10 on the only hard drive. I'm trying to do a clean Ubuntu install to replace Windows but the installer only finds the ...
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Boot Issues on Ubuntu 18.04 (Asus Vivobook S14)
I have been having issues when booting and rebooting on my laptop (Asus Vivobook S14, i7 processor, GeForce MX150 graphics card). I have a dual-boot setup with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10. Oftentimes ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 partition doesn't boot after resizing
I hope you guys can help me because I'm beginning to be hopeless to find my data and all my work...
I spent 2 days going through many forums to find a solution but nothing works.
This is my problem:
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After upgrading my 18.04 LT to 4.15.-52-generic can't boot on LUKS encrypted LVM
After upgrading my 18.04 LTE to 4.15.-52-generic kernel modules I am not able to boot into my Desktop. My SSD is LUKS encrypted (LUKS partition on LVM). With the new kernel modules, it doesn't ask me ...
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ubuntu upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 very slow boot
I have tried following things, and im beginner with ubuntu so afraid to make some changes in firmware or booting sequence might go something wrong please help me.
$ systemd-analyze
Startup ...
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Dual Booting Mistakes & Installation Headaches [duplicate]
Please forgive me; I will attempt to keep this as short and to the point as possible
Pre-Context:
So initially, my laptop was dual booting Windows 10 & Linux Mint (this was my first instance in ...
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asus bios utility: the system cannot find any bootable devices
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My Asus laptop had Endless OS installed and I wanted to switch to Ubuntu 18. So I followed the instructions to install Ubuntu in the machine, erasing all of the Endless OS (no dual boot). I ...
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Ubuntu Dual Boot UEFI vs Legacy Boot Issues
A little background, I’m trying to install xubuntu on my mom’s laptop HP Envy17 Windows 7.
Initially, I was having issues installing and found a fix where I setup a 200MB EFI partition. I’ve managed ...
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How to install startup disk creator in Ubuntu 19.04
I know I'm supposed to have the Startup Disk Creator installed in the Ubuntu 19.04 version, but I ran the
apt policy usb-creator-gtk
And got
usb-creator-gtk:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.3....
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Not enough free disk space on disk '/boot' but I don't have old kenels
Not enough free disk space on disk '/boot' but I don't have old kenels, here is how my boot partition looks like...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224297 may 6 10:33 config-5.0.0-15-generic
drwxr-xr-x 5 ...
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VMs boot time is slow when Ubuntu is host
Currently I'm doing dual boot with Windows10/Ubuntu. The problem is that I have Oracle's VirtualBox installed on both OS, using the same virtual machine, boot time when I'm on Ubuntu is slower ...
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My first time in emergency mode. Don't know what to do. Steps to debug
Hello yesterday I was happy because I installed a second drive myself without annoying the people in this forum.
All was working good. Today I turned on my PC and it was in emergency mode. I don't ...
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How can a reuse an encrypted SSD?
I bought a laptop on ebay that had a broken screen, didn't appear to have ever been opened before, and upon opening it, I found an SSD inside that I would like to format and use.
Gparted (and other ...
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problem with the install ubuntu 18.04.2
I need some help to Install ubuntu (I had tried to install 18.04.2& 19.04 & 14.04.6) on my laptop (asus model N752VX original windows 10 home from asus ). I have already asked for help from ...
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systemd-analyze blame provides a list repeated many times in terminal
I am facing with very slow boot time on Ubuntu 18.04.1.
After running the command
systemd-analyze blame
in terminal, I've got a very long list containing repeated sublists
me@wht:/boot$ systemd-...
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What is the reason for '' error file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found'' in ubuntu?
This is the third time when I have to reinstall ubuntu because of this problem. Please tell me what am I doing wrong?
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BLACK SCREEN when trying to install Ubuntu Mate 19.04 over Manjaro 18
I'm in my bios, then selected to boot from USB where the Ubuntu Mate 19.04 iso is. a GNU GRUB 2.02 menu appears with options:
Try Ubuntu Mate without installing
Try Ubuntu Mate without installing (...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu 19.04 into recovery mode
I installed Ubuntu 19.04 and Docker. I'm running some home automation containers on them. Everything was fine and I was happy.
Recently one of my friends modified my user permission allowing me to ...
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Boot: Normal vs Recovery
After a recent update to Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, my system hangs during boot (see my first question at 18.04.2 Hangs during boot after update).
This time I am asking for help to learn about what would be ...
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How do I get the boot manager to give me an option to choose from which os I want to boot? [duplicate]
I have a computer in which Windows 10 is installed.Recently I have installed Ubuntu on it.The boot manager automatically boots my computer with Windows.Now I want the boot manager to give me a boot ...
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Ununtu 19.04 unable to login error "usr/lib/paython3.7/email/_pycache_':permission denied"
Boots well but when I try to login errors appear
Error found while loading etc/profile
usr/lib/paython3.7/email/_pycache_':permission denied
usr/lib/paython3.7/email/mime/_pycache_':permission ...
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Updated ubuntu 18.04 now get stuck in 5 dot screen after grub
Updated ubuntu 18.04 now get stuck in 5 dot screen after grub. Lets me boot with safe mode but not with anything else. I have an Amd Ryzen cpu. Anyone else have this issue?
solved:
changed my display ...
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How to roll back intel microcode update on Ubuntu 18.04
Just two days ago (Jun 18, 2019), I was prompted to allow a routine Ubuntu update. After update finished and reboot, I'm no longer able to boot into Ubuntu. Specifically, I was taken to the Grub ...
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laptop cannot boot after clean single-boot single-drive install using ubuntu-18.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso
I can only offer the following observations:
laptop: a hp elite book (6930p) with intel dual core with only
"experimental UEFI boot support". it's bio setting: UEFI mode is
disabled.
I used rufus 3.4 ...
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Run "sudo vulkaninfo" at startup, all users
I need to run the command sudo vulkaninfo each time the system starts up (I know how to do it when system wakes up from sleep, i.e. in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/somescript). This command should be ...
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Reset BIOS from Ubuntu
I am on a Thomson NEO14 2 32SB
I need to reset the BIOS in order to enable GOP Driver. I have a black screen on startup until Ubuntu boots.
The thing is, I don't have a CMOS battery and neither a ...
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Boot stuck at this screen
This started after kernel update.
I've tried this boot option:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset"
But it doesn't solve problem sometimes it doesn't work.
I'm using Kubuntu 18.04, Kernel ...
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GNU GRUB screen no longers loads Ubuntu OS
I was working fine with Ubuntu but one day when I restart it because it freeze the Lap return to the GNU GRUB screen (the purple one) where there's only 3 options: Ubuntu / Advanced option for Ubuntu /...
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How do you boot automatically from Grub?
After my first install of Ubuntu 18.04.2LTS, my PC boots to the Grub command line. (Not a splash screen). UEFI.
How do I set this up so that I don't have to go through this process every time I want ...
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New Install Boots to Grub
UPDATE:
I followed these instructions to make this work: How do I boot my PC from GRUB?
I had to boot from my USB installer thumb drive to pull up the Disk information so I knew what device to ...
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Unable to upgrade due EFI partition problem
When I'm trying to upgrade my computer with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS, this error appears every single time I try the process:
EFI System Partition (ESP) not usable
Your EFI System Partition (...
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XPS13 - White screen on boot
I have an XPS 13 9380 which was working quite well. In the last few days I cannot boot it anymore. When booting I end up in a white screen with some rubbish in the upper left corner.
I have manage to ...
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Purple screen with no Ubuntu logo for 1 minute before login screen appears
I’ve recently upgraded Ubuntu from 16.10 to 18.04.02.
The problem I’ve encountered is that when I boot Ubuntu, I temporarily get stuck on an all-purple screen with no Ubuntu logo for around 1 ...
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Dell G3 having issue while booting with Ubuntu
I have purchased a new Dell G3 Laptop and this system is provided with Windows 10 and when I removed Windows and installed Ubuntu in different ways, it was unable to boot and only got the following ...
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Hard disk partition problem
Yesterday I have used partition tool in Windows for extending my C drive. After a few hours, my Windows OS is not identified and cannot boot the device. I used live-USB Ubuntu to look into the ...
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Keyboard stopped working in grub 2.02 on dual booted pc
I have a dual booted PC with windows 7 and ubuntu 18.04(bionic), and the keyboard refuses to work on the grub OS selection menu thus rendering me unable to switch to booting windows. The keyboard ...
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Intel NUC won't boot from SSD automatically but boots when selected manually
Just installed Ubuntu Server 19.04 on my NUC and running into "A boot device has not been detected" issue.
Note that if I press F10 and select the same SSD as the boot device, the NUC boots up, loads ...
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"grub rescue unknown filesystem/device" error is only passed through by pressing multiple ESC in HP
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 alongside Windows 10 like this, with the 64.77 GB partition being used for Ubuntu :
Whenever I restart/start my PC (Elitebook 8560w Workstation HP) the grub selection ...
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Ubuntu doesn't boot anymore: Failed to start PostgreSQL Cluster 10-main
I've been using Ubuntu for about one month on the concerned computer.
It always worked fine, but when I wanted to boot my computer today, I got following message: Failed to start PostgreSQL Cluster 10-...
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Ubuntu 18.04 not booting after software update
I have read the other related articles, but have not been able to resolve this issue. Either the scenario is not applicable, or I do not fully understand the subject matter, as one who has been a ...
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Live USB Ubuntu fails to see the nvme SSD on Predator Triton 700 to make install
I need to install Ubuntu on my Acer Predator Triton 700 for development and the live USB fails to see the NVME SSD drive to install on.
It shows only the USB drive.
The BIOS is minimal - The only SATA ...
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GRUB Doesn't detect windows: Disk is MBR but booting via UEFI [duplicate]
I dun goofed. I thought my Windows was booting using UEFI, and I installed Ubuntu using UEFI. But now I think my Windows was booting using MBR, and GRUB can't detect it.
I'm confident the disk is MBR:...
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Journal warning at boot
I have an error message stopping the boot of my system. Message telling me to run journalctl.
Ran journalctl @ command line. This is a cut out of the output where the warning starts.
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Samsung booting to bios (no ubuntu) after ubuntu 14 update
I updated ubuntu on a friends' laptop and now when it turns on, it shows the BIOS (not GRUB like before) with the option to enter "windows boot manager" which is nonsense because the laptop does not ...
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Update to kernel 4.15.0-51 can't find encrypted drive
I recently performed a kernel upgrade on my tablet, going from 4.15.0-50 to 4.15.0-51. On reboot, it dropped to busybox. The system did not seem to know about my encrypted hard drive -- i.e. it had ...
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