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A bootloader is a small program that gets executed at startup time. The bootloader loads data and other startup process into RAM where they can be executed.

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Using failed hard drive as storage [closed]

Situation: Hard drive failed to boot could not be fixed with my level of knowledge Action I took : Bought new Hard drive and loaded Ubuntu 14.04 (had a copy handy) on it. I then used "Nautilus" ...
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Dual boot into ubuntu with windows boot manager?

Noob here, please bear with me. I installed Ubuntu 14 LTS on a separate partition of size 10GB and formatted it to ext4 during installation. Now it is not visible through windows. The installation ...
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Boot-sector size is constant? [closed]

I read that first sector on any partition needs to be reserved for bootloader, regardless of weather it is used or not. But sector sizes changed from 512 to 4096 bytes. So how much space must really ...
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Boot in UEFI mode

I have ubuntu 14.10 installed on a pendrive in legacy mode. I can use it to boot my desktop and tablet in legacy mode, but not UEFI. Is there any way to make it bootable in UEFI mode? For example, ...
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Restore Windows 8 GUI Bootloader [closed]

I recently installed Windows 7 Pro, Windows 8.1 Pro, and Ubuntu 14.04 as a multi-boot on my pc with help from this page. Everything works great with the chainloading boot. I can boot into whichever OS ...
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How to setup dual boot with two drives with two different versions of Ubuntu (v12/v14)?

I'm not sure if this is truly a Ubuntu question, as it's more of a boot question (BIOS/CMOS perhaps). I have an existing Ubuntu v12.04 on one HHD drive. I don't want to partition that drive; not much ...
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installing the OS twice on same hard disk drive

I plan to install Ubuntu 13.10 twice on the same HDD. The reason is each installed OS will have filesystem tweaks different from the other. Below is my plan: First primary (bootable) partition will ...
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How to remove GRUB and boot Windows?

I have tried the other suggestions such as bootrec.exe /FixBoot and bootrec.exe /FixMbr But on restart it still boots to the grub command line. I have also tried startup repair using the Windows 7 ...
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Basic multiboot USB guide

There are some Question here on askubuntu about this. but they mostly use GUI, and or cli. What am looking for is, a basic guide on how to install grub or other on my 16GB USB, and a simple guide on ...
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Restore backup of WinEFI or UEFI (not sure) that boot-repair made

I have a laptop that supports EFI/UEFI. I have Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 on it. The way I installed my OSes was like this: I installed Win 8.1 in the required partitions then Installed ubuntu and ...
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Installing the bootloader [duplicate]

I have a new Lenovo idea pad (U410) with Windows 8 pre-installed. I've partitioned the hard drive and I'm able to install Ubuntu without errors. I've done this a couple times, but I'm not sure where ...
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ubuntu uefi boot issues

After quite a lot hurdles I got the ubuntu 12.04 installed on my machine in uefi mode but still one issue. It has created a separate boot option in uefi boot mode. So everytime I need to run ubuntu I ...
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where is my ubuntu 12.10?

i have 4 partitions. 1 system part of windows. 2 windows installed(7 x64). 3 i common drive for temp files. 4 my drive for my personal data. i downloaded ubuntu 12.10 x64 shrinked my windows drive ...
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Deleting GRUB2 which is placed in sda? And how to fix two Ubuntu entry in EFI Boot selector?

I have EFI Windows 8 in my Asus K55V laptop. EFI partition is sda1. I tried to install Ubuntu in EFI mode and created/selected separate boot partition for Ubuntu boot loader. Ubuntu installed ...
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How to use a bootable USB on another machine without grub?

I have installed (not live CD) Ubuntu on a USB stick, and now having dual boot with Windows. How can I use this USB on another machine, as the latter does not have grub. How to make the USB ...
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Ubuntu 12.04.1 dual boot - boots directly to Windows 7

I wanted to install Ubuntu on my computer as second OS. I shrank the Windows partition and gave Ubuntu about 40Gb of space. After this I created a live USB having Ubuntu 12.04.1, and booted using the ...
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How to encrypt Ubuntu home folder or partition and still able to hibernate/sleep my PC?

I am currently dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12. During installation of Ubuntu, I chose to encrypt my home folder. I just don't like the fact that I can't put my computer to sleep or hibernate. ...
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Dual-boot: Can't select Windows at boot

I have a computer with 2 operating systems dual booted: One is Windows 7 and the other is Ubuntu. My Ubuntu installation is installed within the Windows partition via wubi.exe. I'm not using grubby,...
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Uninstalling Wubi after Windows restore

I restored my windows computer with wubi on it, but when I booted it up for the 1st time, Ubuntu is still there to choose during boot. Help?
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Double boot choice

I am keeping in my system both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. Initially I had Grub2 as boot loader. Afterward I swapped back to the Windows Boot-loader, adding an entry for Linux through EasyBCD. Now, ...
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How to Install Ubuntu with MBR?

Hello all, I have a very good question and I hope you can help me: As you know there 2 or maybe 3 ways to install Ubuntu, the 2 ways that I know are: Bootable Installation Ubuntu CD/DVD Ubuntu Wubi ...
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How do I change the OS name in the Boot menu - Windows bootloader?

I have installed ubuntu 11.10 with Wubi (windows installer) and when i boot my computer it gives me the option of windows 7 home premium and Ubuntu. I want to change the name of Ubuntu to Windows 7 ...
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Opening Syslinux to make a USB bootable?

I don't understand how to open and use Syslinux so that it can create a bootable USB. I am not familiar with a lot of the language on the standard answers, so less tech is better. I downloaded version ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS start-up message/check which delays boot

I am having Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS dual boot system. Windows 11 on regular SSD while Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on PCIE NVME SSD. It's Dell XPS 8930 Desktop(2018) where I have made a lot of upgrades ...
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How to cleanly disable Grub after a migration to systemd-boot?

Short story: I replaced grub2 with systemd-boot and cannot be happier. Much simpler, and works perfectly on a rather complex efi multi-boot system mixing sata, nvme... Now I want to make sure update-...
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Cannot install 22.04 on older laptop. Operating System Not found

Install goes fine but no matter what option I chose after install it says "Operating System Not Found". Hardware is a XPS 13 L321X Intel Core i5-2467M (10 plus years old) running Ubuntu 22....
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"Invalid magic number" error when booting in kernel 5.4.0.104

Hello everybody out there using Ubuntu, My Lenovo X230 Tablet with Ubuntu 18.04 installed to a Samsung 4 SSD only booted into a minimal bash today. This looked to me like a problem with GRUB or the ...
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Ubuntu ZFS - /boot/efi/grub mounted at /boot/grub in fstab - normal?

I'm noticing a "new" line in fstab I've never noticed before, and I'm wondering if it has to do with this installation being on ZFS AFAICR /boot/grub has always existed independent of the ...
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Grub bootloader

I have just switched to Linux and made a clean install of Ubuntu 20.04 over Windows 10 (no dual boot). I want to skip the grub bootloader screen which appears at the startup. I have already gone ...
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Ubuntu crashed now Windows 10 doesn't boot

Ubuntu crashed causing my computer to reboot. Computer no longer starts Windows 10 but instead boots into GRUB. Before I begin I must state that I am not a computer nerd. I use computers solely to ...
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Device for boot loader installation

Device for boot loader installation What should I select? I am new to linux and I don't know what to do
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My system it's slow and keep freezing

Issue Slow System When I log into the system it takes quite some time to "get ready" for use. When I open applications like File System takes a long time to open them. Frozen Screen(s) In ...
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How to install burg bootloader in ubuntu 20.04?

Tried many ways, but it seems a dead end. Tried the installation method for Ubuntu 16.04 but it keeps giving errors.
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Remove the other Linux boot loader

Hi I have installed two Linux distributions and I have decided to remove one of them but it still keeps its boot loader, so I just wanted to know how can I find which one belongs to my current Linux ...
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CAN'T INSTALL LINUX DISTRO(grub fail)

boot-info: http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/RfkJWSpQ4Z/ Sorry for asking this question again because it has been asked and answered multiple times but I could not find a solution that fits my problem. I ...
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How to show boot text instead of the splash or blank screen on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 18.04?

Editing kernel parameters and removing 'quiet' and 'splash' doesn't bring loading text - I continue seeing black screen with no text. Pressing ESC doesn't magically show anything either. The first ...
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How to keep grub from ever reinstalling itself

I'm using the refind bootloader and never, ever want to use grub. Now and then, Ubuntu Xenial automatically pulls it in and I get a prompt about where to install the grub bootloader.[1] I explicitly ...
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BIOS setting disappeared after installing Ubuntu 18.04

I was trying to install ubuntu on my laptop(which is old and doesn't support UEFI) and while installing, it showed this error message: "The 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install target/". ...
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a busy box error arises of code V1.22.1

Each time I logged in to the system, intrafms screen arises asking to face mannualy. .if this problem has any permanent solution, kindly help me out of it.. When I run fsck mannually and entering ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 not booting after bootloader update (Acer laptop)

Problem: I installed Ubuntu on my laptop computer. It was working just fine for several weeks. Recently – seemingly out of nowhere – I had this weird and frustrating problem that the device would not ...
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Having a hard time installing Ubuntu onto a USB stick

I'm trying to install Ubuntu onto a USB stick, and I've done it at least thrice in the past, and I've always had to give it 3-4 tries to install it. The problem is that in most cases, the installer ...
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GRUB terminal instead of menu

I've Windows dual booted with Ubuntu. So recently, I moved one of my free partition so that it would be near the Ubuntu partition and I could expand the Ubuntu partition. But when I moved the free ...
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How to add windows on Ubuntu bootmanager?

Im using both windows and Ubuntu on my laptop pc. I mostly use windows but whenever I want to switch to Ubuntu i have to go to bios and choose the partition where Ubuntu is installed and then choose ...
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What happens to windows bootloader after installing ubuntu?

I heard that in mbr partiton scheme, a bootloader is installed before the first partion.Do the grub delete or removes the windows bootloader.Did I can install ubuntu without bootloader, because ...
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Can GRUB be installed to separate drive that doesn't contain a Linux system?

As the title says, can GRUB be installed to separate drive that doesn't contain a Linux system? For example, let's say I have two disks: sda, and sdb. Let's say the partition layout is something like ...
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Switching to UEFI Boot without fresh installation or boot repair tool

I deleted every partition in my hdd and started with a fresh installation of Ubuntu(14.04). The EFI partition was also deleted. Now I can boot into Ubuntu only if I change the boot mode to Legacy . ...
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Is this simplified flow chart of how the ubuntu fire up is correct ?

I am trying to understand the way that Ubuntu starts what is being runned or started. Can you please confirm if my simplified flow chart is correct ? First we power on a computer with linux ...
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HDD boot repair

I just used boot-repair tool in Ubuntu and I applied MBR option … and when I reboot my laptop, it won't boot hard drive. A black screen appears with a cursor beeping and my whole system stucks there … ...
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How to reinstall GRUB bootloader for 14.04 after upgrading to Windows 10 [duplicate]

What do I do to reinstall the GRUB boot-loader, since I heard the Windows boot-loader overwrites GRUB.
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Recover windows 10 EFI Boot from dual boot with ubuntu

I made my window 10 system system in dual boot with ubuntu. I would like to remove ubuntu and install it in virtual-box within windows. I am afraid to remove ubuntu partions fearing windows may not ...
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