Questions tagged [boot]
Use this tag if you have trouble booting Ubuntu or you have questions about the bootup process.
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Want to make a custom Ubuntu bootable USB with a specific kernel
I have a Surface Pro 4 and want to try Ubuntu on it. I made a bootable USB using the website's instructions, and tried it on my Surface but I couldn't get the touchscreen or WiFi working, two things I ...
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Ubuntu stuck on blank screen with blinking cursor
I am running Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04.2 dual boot on a Lenovo Thinkpad. The setup has been working fine for me for 6+ months.
The laptop was on with the lid closed and the charging cable got ...
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What to do after running fsck and messing up partitions?
Wasn't sure how to format the question in the title, but bear with me here. Earlier today, I (stupidly) ran fsck. Now, I get a kernel panic message (not syncing), and Ubuntu will not boot.
After doing ...
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Boot failure when powered via GPIO with UART connection to PIXHAWK 4 MINI
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB and connected to my PixHawk 4 Mini via UART. If I power the Raspberry PI via the USB-C port, it boots and I have good communication to the flight controller via the UART, ...
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Does the ubuntu live image record anything in the USB drive? [duplicate]
The usb ubuntu bootable made from an ISO is also a live image if you click "try ubuntu". If I do some stuff in the terminal for example, does it get recorder in any way in the USB stick?
I ...
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Boot Issues After 21.10 Upgrade
After upgrading one of my Ubuntu systems to 21.10, it now boots only to the BIOS. It appears to be a UEFI issue which is what I believe in my BIOS is called CSM boot mode which is enabled. In order to ...
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Mount a ubuntu portable machine as a hard drive on another ubuntu portable
For those that know Mac OS, I am looking for a way to replicate the Target mount mode in Ubuntu. Mac target mode is a startup mode that presents a firewire / usbc connected machine as a hard drive to ...
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Showing both Windows installations in grub (single Windows EFI partition)
I hope this is the right place to ask this question!
I have a machine in which I have three OSs installed: two Windows 10 and Ubuntu.
The two windows 10 systems have been installed on the same drive, ...
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Oh no! Something has gone wrong. Please contact system administrator [duplicate]
Whenever I boot my computer I get the message
Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occured and the system can't repair. Please contact a system administrator
Here is an image -
It ...
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How to force degraded mdadm raid1 array to start and mount on boot?
How do I force raid1 array(neither root, nor boot) without all components present from failing to start on system boot?
I am using Ubuntu 21.10. File system used is ext4.
Expected behavior
Install a ...
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dhcp client doesn't start on boot
I am using ubuntu 20.04 desktop and one day after booting up my PC, without me touching anything, the internet wasn't working.
So after about an hour of frustration I found the magic commad that fixed ...
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How to get more space on /boot? (extra kernels have been removed)
i'm on ubuntu 21.04 trying to update to 21.10, and getting the usual error
The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 287 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an additional ...
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ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: usci_handle_connector_change: GET_CONNECTOR_STATUS failed (-110)
On boot the following message appears and I cannot login (well I can but only if I go to tty3 and login via cli):
ucsi_acpi USBC000:00: usci_handle_connector_change: GET_CONNECTOR_STATUS failed (-110)
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Slow Boot on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I upgraded from a previous version of Ubuntu to 20.4 LTS and the boot up takes minutes when it used to take seconds.
I get a lot of acpi errors but suspect these are a red herring. Instead it ...
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Upgrade a working 21.04 installation to 21.10 resulted in a useless purple screen
I upgraded my fully functional ubuntu 21.04 installation to 21.10, and the result was a useless blank purple Ubuntu screen. Rebooting just results in the same thing. There is nothing I can do, not ...
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ubuntu install stuck on "detecting file systems"
i've been trying to dual boot ubuntu and windows 10 but every ubuntu install i've tried leads to the same problem which is getting stuck on "detecting file systems". i'm using an external ...
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Headless Ubuntu into VirtualBox virtual machine
I want to run just any regular image set up in VirtualBox. Is it possible to run a virtual image/desktop with VirtualBox before the Ubuntu desktop environment loads?
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Why doesn't my trackpad \ touchpad work on my USB boot of Ubuntu?
I created a bootable flash drive to run Ubuntu on as I have a pretty old laptop with an extremely small hard drive. I had now problems getting it to boot up, but my trackpad (mouse) isn't operational. ...
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Tried to Dual Boot Windows 11 and Ubuntu 21.04
I was originally trying to install Ubuntu on a USB drive, but then I decided just to dual-boot it. Ubuntu told me to disable Intel RST, so I followed the steps in this guide until I got to the ...
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 not booting up
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 20.04 on my old PC, and it fails booting up every time.
I'm using a USB as an installation media, and after removing the USB from the PC, it fails to boot up Ubuntu....
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update-initramfs: failed
Recently I restored accidentally deleted /share folder of Ubuntu-21.04 by copying it from a live Ubuntu-21.04, and somehow managed to start the computer. Since then Computer is working fine, but ...
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Install Ubuntu onto an external SSD using VirtualBox?
So, I have a 240GB (external)SSD, onto which I'd like to install Ubuntu. Now, after reading a few posts on doing exactly this, I see that one of the common issues people face while doing this is that ...
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How do I revert back to a previous update of ubuntu
The most recent automatic update of Ubuntu was faulty. My computer just displays a blank screen and an occasionally flashing cursor. Now, in order to boot Ubuntu, when grub comes up,I have to select ...
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Error when starting Ubuntu from usb
Recently I have installed Ubuntu on a usb. I booted it a few times, and it worked well, but when I tried to boot it today, it gave me this error:
When I hit ctrl+alt+delete it shows the ubuntu logo ...
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Cannot start because of volume group issue
I'm not sure if this was caused by hibernate, or a system update, or a combination.
I cannot start anything graphical on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon anymore.
I can start in text mode, if I stop the Lenovo ...
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Ubuntu laptop won't turn on without external monitor
I have my ubuntu mate set up with an external screen, keyboard, and mouse (total of three, plus an external harddrive occasionally) when working from home, but when we traveled recently I noticed that ...
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Ubuntu install with mdadm and multiple luks partitions
Given 3 identical drives partitioned for an ubuntu 20.04 install as follows (swap and /home are on separate luks volumes to share with another Linux install on sda3/4)
Partition
Format
Mount Point
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Ubuntu 20.04 is freezing every login, what can I do to diagnose?
The hardware all passes the dell diagnostics and the SMART check on the hard disk.
The laptop is freezing randomly, sometimes at the disk decryption screen, sometimes after 10 minutes of logging in, ...
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Cannot boot Xen: secureboot forbids loading multiboot2 module
I've installed xen-hypervisor-4.11-amd64, now I wish to boot Xen.
I can't. When I choose corresponding entry from grub I receive following message:
Loading Xen 4.11-amd64
error: Secure boot ...
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System shuts off randomly when booting Ubuntu
I have a C246 mainboard with a Xeon CPU and ECC RAM. Using Ubuntu 20.04, the system randomly shuts off completely, as if power was lost.
At first, I suspected a HW problem. I switched the PSU, I ...
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BLACK SCREEN Aftern installing new GPU on Ubuntu 20.04 new pc
Recently I decided to upgrade my Desktop PC, so I bought a few things to try a new setup.
I also decided to keep my 2 hard drives, 1 SSD in which Ubuntu 20.04 is installed, and 1 HDD which I use for ...
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Console doesn't open automatically
After Ubuntu installation I enabled system boot in a console mode using the following command:
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
It have always worked fine but yesterday console stopped to ...
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Having to set root and prefix every time I boot on grub 2 "minimal bash like editing"
I tried the alternative method shown here using boot-repair after the system didn't detect at all the linux bootloader (only windows option and the disc only (which I don't know why it appears) were ...
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When running version 20.04.3 LTS via /boot/vmlinuz-5.11.0-27-generic I get a black screen
Today I updated my Ubuntu 20.04.2 to version 20.04.3 and got a black screen, under which I hear the sound of volume up sliders. My EFI partition is banned in the disk management application. Later, I ...
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No GUI after updating Ubuntu, how do I resolve this?
I used Ubuntu for about 2 weeks now and its great and everything, but somehow it stopped working when I turned my computer on this morning. For some reason I only see a black screen with a blinking ...
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Duplicate Ubuntu entries in BIOS
After installing software update, there are two entries for Ubuntu in BIOS. I'm using both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 on dual boot. Removing them from efibootmgr didn't work.
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"you are in emergency mode" during first boot after power failure - how to avoid it?
For a few years I'm running Ubuntu on my home server. New thing this year in my area are short but frequent power grid outages.
After each such power failure my system is not booting to desktop, but ...
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Full USB installation isn't booting anymore
I installed Ubuntu permanently on a 256 GB USB drive. In order to boot it, I simply hit F12 during boot and selected the USB drive. This has been working fine for at least 2 years, but now I just get ...
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Initramfs unpacking failed: no cpio magic booting 20.04.3
I was trying to fix an issue and after rebooting I got stuck on the following screen.
Initramfs unpacking failed: no cpio magic
Failed to execute /init (error -2)
Kernel panic ~ not syncing - No ...
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Can't boot ubuntu after update, black screen
English isn't my first language, So I will try my best to convey the problem, I performed an update in terminal I did the following
sudo apt-update
sudo apt-upgrade
sudo apt autoremove
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Lenovo T490 shut down and will not boot into Ubuntu without using grub2 bootloader from USB
There is a boot loader issue for many Lenovo laptops. I do not know why. Specifically this laptop was stuck trying to PXE boot as seen by many IT professionals.
After messing around a bit, I created a ...
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Regarding boot my pendrive to fomat my windows to ubuntu [closed]
I can not boot my pen drive. After 100% this message is coming how can I fix it? Any information will be helpful.
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Boot stuck on HP logo after initramfs fsck
Update: I bit the bullet and did a fresh install, so this is no longer an issue. I don't think I'd consider it "solved" though.
Went to fire up my computer this morning and was met with the ...
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Ubuntu Core not booting in Raspberry pi 4
I've been running Ubuntu Core (I guess 18) in a Rpi 4 4Gb like charm for a while. The only use was a nextcloud server. About a week ago the system stopped running and now it doesn't boot. I only get ...
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Cannot Enter BIOS After Setting Up Dual Ubuntu Boot (Acer Aspire 5)
I have an Acer Aspire 5 where I removed the existing hard drive partitions and installed two LUKS-encrypted instances of Ubuntu 20.04.2. (There is no Windows operating system or recovery disk anymore.)...
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Now Windows 8 is not showing at the time of boot loading but showed a couple of days ago
On my machine, I have Windows 8 and Ubuntu 20.04. Everything was going smoothly. At the time power on or restart, I was getting 2 options to choose from (Windows or Ubuntu).
Due to COVID-19, I ...
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Can't boot installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a Dell Inspiron 14 3480 laptop
I have a Dell Inspiron 14 3480 installed with windows 10. Erases the OEM OS by installing an Ubuntu 20.04LTS. But after restarting the laptop Ubuntu OS will not load after shutdown.
Tweak some item in ...
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Blank screen after installing kde desktop environment, can only login from console tty2
I wanted to put KDE plasma on my Ubuntu 20.04.
It did not work - a blank screen came up then I had to use ALT + CTRL + F2 to log in and then command line shows up instead of giving me the direct login ...
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error while loading shared libraries libtinfo.so.5 while attempting to repair my bricked ubuntu installation using Boot Repair Disk by yannubuntu
I'm having trouble reinstalling grub through chroot, I get the following error whenever I try to reinstall it.
error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 won't boot on ASUS A15 TUF506Q Laptop
I installed 20.04 on a new "ASUS TUF Gaming A15 TUF506QE-MS74 15.6" Laptop Computer Platinum Collection" from a USB device I created a week ago. (Successfully installed the Ubuntu ...
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