Questions about the bootup process in Ubuntu. Use this tag if you have trouble booting Ubuntu or you have questions about the bootup process.
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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 Black Screen [duplicate]
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 64bit on my new ASUS Machine. My graphics card in an Intel HD Graphics 4000 card. I am trying to install Ubuntu but when I boot with flash drive and click install, ...
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how do I run Ubuntu from disk [duplicate]
I am unable to boot from the disk I burned of the image I downloaded from the Ubuntu website. I've gone into Setup and rearranged boot sequence and I've looked through disk for executable files. I ...
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Ubuntu and Windows7 [duplicate]
I know, this is a stupid question but I need your help.
I have ubuntu 12.04 on my Computer but I need windows to play Metin2 (yes I need because I am gamemaster). Wine doesn't work because of ...
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Lenovo G780 and Ubuntu 13.04
Just installed 13.04 on new G780, left UEFI enabled, but wiped Windows 8 off the disk.
Whenever I boot up 13.04, the screen shows purple for a few seconds, and then just the back light shows for a few ...
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Crash during boot after installation [duplicate]
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 on ARK-2120 (fanless computer from Advantech, based on Intel Atom N2600 with Compact Flash). After installation it starts to boot, write messages but aprox. after 2 ...
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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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After bootup I am stuck on a black screen with a text cursor and a mouse cursor on 13.04
I have a Zenbook ux31a with a core i5 and the Intel HD 4000 gfx card. When I press esc during startup to enter the grub2 menu and choose a kernel from the advanced options menu ubuntu starts up ...
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Won't Boot Correctly
I have installed Ubuntu using Wubi correctly, and when I reboot my PC it does not go to the boot manager screen. It just boots up to Windows XP automatically. I am confuzled.
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Cannot boot to USB after I installed plugins and such
So I blew one of my HDs and decided to set up a Ubuntu 12.04 standalone system on my USB HD. Worked fine, but then I decided to create a startup CD that would incorporate my basic setup needs, so that ...
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black screen after bootup [duplicate]
I restarted my computer after I was having audio issues, computer froze I did a force shutoff. Started it back up it booted to my crypt setup screen I decrypted my hdd then my computer brought me to ...
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BLIND BOOT on hp 2000-2b09wm
i have ubuntu 12.04 LTS already loaded on my hard drive, my screen is broken and i have to use an external monitor through a vga cable. my problem is that my laptop is not loading to the point where ...
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Medion UEFI cause black screen at boot time except on graphical CD-ROM
I have tried to install Linux on a Medion with Windows8. By default, no CD-ROM can boot. I have removed the Microsoft Boot (commercially "Secure Boot") and changed the boot options from "Windows8" ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 install screen doesn't appear on fujitsu v6555
I have a Fujitsu v6555 with enough specs to run ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which is currently running Windows 7.
When I put the Ubuntu live DVD (ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso), it starts booting then shows ...
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Can't install Ubuntu on Windows 8 [duplicate]
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So I'm trying to install Ubuntu... but it won't install.
Currently I'm using Windows 8 and I have 2 HDD.
On 1 HDD I've installed Windows 8 and using it, primary partition, but the other HDD is ...
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Flashing white green and purple screen when starting up [duplicate]
I'm really new to Ubuntu and Linux in general. I installed Ubuntu a few days ago using Wubi, the installation went fine but when I started Ubuntu for the first time all I got was a screen which ...
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Ubuntu as the only option on the boot menu
So I decided to upgrade my hard drive from a 750 GB hard drive to a brand new 1 TB hard drive. I installed ubuntu 12.10 with no errors and then updated it to 13.04. Then I attempted to install Windows ...
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Kubuntu not loading after installation of tuxonice
In order to make a windows like hibernation i have installed tuxonice through muon package manager. After that i have typed following code for hibernation
$ sudo pm-hibernate
Then the system ...
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Ubuntu doesn't boot after install [duplicate]
I've installed ubuntu 12.04 on my computer, everything worked properly untill i install update packages, ubunto won't boot after restart, my screen goes blank. I've reinstalled ubuntu twice and now ...
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Black Screen on Login
I have serached around, but no fix could help me. Here's what happened:
A few days ago, for no reason, I couldn't see the login screen on my Ubuntu 12.04. nor do anything but reboot using ...
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Installing ubuntu without any OS
Is it possible to install ubuntu without having a operating system?
I have tried to install through usb and do not have access to dvd/cd at the moment.
can anyone help?
i got the following error ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 rebooting problem
I had installed driver for ati radeon hd 2000. After downloading and installing it asked me to reboot.I rebooted and after that the Ubuntu logo and the progress bar under it were bigger.Nothing ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS getting stuck on black screen after Ubuntu logo [duplicate]
Earlier I installed something on my Ubuntu box I thought would fix another problem that I found on a forum..
Unfortunaltely afterwards my computer will boot up to the Ubuntu logo screen and then ...
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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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Ubuntu 13.04 hangs at the login screen, says I'm logged in
When I log-in to my user account, the log-in screen tells me I'm currently logged in and hangs at that screen.
Help?
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Problems when installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
I recently wanted to try out Ubuntu so I decided to get the Windows installer for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. After it finished installing, it asked me to restart my computer. After it restarted it booted up ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Boot Hang [duplicate]
When trying to boot Ubuntu 13.04 I get a blank screen with flashing curser in the top left corner, it just then hangs there and doesn't do any thing!
Any ideas?
Thanks
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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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How to free up space in /boot when I have only one kernel installed?
Every since I upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04, Ubuntu's been complaining that /boot is full. Now, it's pulling a racket when I'm trying to install packages.
For starters, I've looked around for similar ...
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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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Install 13.04 as base OS without ANY windows. Install on RAW disk [duplicate]
To whom it may concern,
I am having an issue finding a live install iso for Ubuntu that I can boot my daughters laptop with to install Ubuntu again. Her last installation of Ubuntu 12.04 (upgraded ...
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Missing Operating System after removing Windows though partition (gparted)
My laptop is divided into three drives: C, D and E. Windows was installed in C and Ubuntu was in D. I format C and E by deleting and to NTFS using gparted. But when I restart, it tells me a "missing ...
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Boot speed in 12.04
I'm having some issues with the boot speed on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS laptop. It seems like the hard disk takes forever to mount. I am running Ubuntu on a 5400RPM hard disk, however I don't think it ...
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Udev rules boot errors
TL;DR; Udev is showing a lot of errors during boot and it is pointing to a .rules file.
A little background: I recently upgraded an Ubuntu 5 server to Ubuntu 12. I performed a stepwise upgrade to ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Boot stuck at the changing Orange & White Dots. How can I get it to work?
I had done a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 a few days ago as a dual boot with Windows. Last night since the PC was behaving a bit sluggish I tried to restart Ubuntu. The bootup reached the GRUB loader ...
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Flash Drive Boot Issue
I tried to install Ubuntu 13.04 onto a flash drive and everything seemed to go smoothly, but after it told me to restart (and I did), it said t insert a boot device (which should be the flash drive, ...
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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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No boot option. Enter BIOS directly
I made an image of my Ubuntu, then I tried to install again in my Laptop. But, there wasn't booting from USB, then I disabled all boot options, except USB. But it did not work.
When I went to enable ...
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Four GUIs off USB Boot
I am booting Ubuntu on a mac off of a USB drive. When I start it up there is a black screen giving me the options to try Ubuntu, install Ubuntu, or 2 other options. I select try Ubuntu and four GUIs ...
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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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I installed ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit but It won't boot up
I installed ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit twice already but it won't boot up. i know my computer is 64 bit but it still wont work. How do i fix the problem?
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Problems installing Ubuntu
I've recently tried to do a clean wipe of my old OS(vista) on my spare PC and go with Ubuntu. Unfortunately after I download the iso image and use Universal USB Installer-1.9.3.3, to format my usb ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 boot time is 1 min 20 seconds!
I have a lenovo z370 notebook (i5...6GB RAM..750 GB HDD) and running Windows 7 dual boot with ubuntu 13.04.
The boot up is very slow and I have tried many things in this forum (for e.g disabling ...
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How to boot from secondary internal disk on mac by using mac default bootloader? [closed]
I installed Ubuntu on that disk, but I cant boot it anymore, but the the auto-booting after the installation. Does anyone have idea how to fix it please?
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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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Full disk encryption & boot partition from a CD
I would like to try enabling Full Disk Encryption under Ubuntu 13.04.
I would also like to put my boot partition on a burnt CD-R, rather than unencrypted on the HDD. A CD-R has a number of advantages ...
