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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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Bootloader that leaves UEFI logo on screen

Is there a bootloader or a setting for Grub that does not clear the (entire) screen, leaving the UEFI logo (motherboard logo) in place - just like Windows 10 shows the progress circles below whatever ...
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What location to put bootloader, when running multiple drives and partition

I have Win8 on my desktop, where a 120G SSD is used to run windows and some select applications, while I have a 2TB HDD to provide basic file storage and where possible, install applications instead ...
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Ubuntu won't boot since upgrading to 14.04

I'm new to Ubuntu so be kind! I recently installed 13.xx, some months ago. For the most part, there were only a few niggles and I was using Ubuntu fine. Recently, though, I was asked into an ...
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How to add bitlocker encrypted Windows 10 to grub bootloader?

Ubuntu 18.04 is installed on /dev/sdb2, grub bootloader on /dev/sdb1 and Windows 10 on a separate SSD /dev/sdc1. I tried update-grub and os-prober but grub would not find it. How can I add bitlocker ...
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Want rEFInd to boot into grub after selecting Linux from rEFInd

I saw, of course, the extensive documentation on Rod Smith's website, and understood most of it, and have searched online Set up rEFInd to boot Ubuntu directly (no Grub menu displayed) etc but can't ...
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update-grub shows "No volume groups found"

Whenever I run sudo update-grub in a terminal, I get the following output: Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found ...
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burg working, but themes aren't

It worked before, but for some reason now I can't change the booting visual anymore. When I run burg-emu on Terminal, this appears: This is exactly how it looks like when I boot the PC. But I can't ...
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What is “Secure Boot chain-loading bootloader (Microsoft-signed binary)" and why is Ubuntu 20.04 trying to install it on my system?

It seems to be part of the shim-signed package. (Credit: @neikas) That package description says: "Its purpose is to allow a small, infrequently-changing binary to be signed by the UEFI CA, ...
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How to install BURG on Ubuntu 17.04

I get a package error in BURG on Ubuntu 17.04 as they aren't in Zesty Zapus repositories yet. Can anyone tell me how to install them? Step by step if you can. Thanks
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How to change USB pendrive with 16.04 to boot using integrated graphics

Can anyone help? My discrete graphics card (a Radeon HD 6970M) in my laptop has failed. There is no way to disable it in the BIOS and I can't remove the MXM from the motherboard. I'm able to disable ...
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Install boot loader to sda or sda1?

I am about to install Ubuntu 16.04 on a laptop. It's an UEFI system, with Windows 10 on a GPT disk. I am doing the partitioning manually to get the partition layout I want. I am not very familiar ...
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Boot Problem: "Boot Loader; /casper/vmlinuz: read error @ 0"

I have a SanDisk - Cruzer 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive - Black as my usb, I used the link http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop to download Ubuntu 15.04 64-Bit and I used http://www.linuxliveusb.com/en/...
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Dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 on UEFI laptop

I have a notebook pre-installed with Windows7 and I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on it following the standard installation steps in the installation image. The only problem is that on reboot the machine ...
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Help on booting ubuntu?

I was trying to copy an old SSD to a new SSD and used "dd" to copy over, but I decided to stick to the old SSD and when I booted it didn't boot but I saw the grub console. At that time if I ...
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Ubuntu boot taking up a lot of time

I use dual boot on my pc- Windows 10 + Ubuntu 20.04. Windows is on SSD and boots up very fast but Ubuntu on HDD boots up slow This is how system-analyse blame looks. Please help me improve it. My ...
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grub bootloader failed to install error when trying to install Ubuntu or Lubuntu - tried to reinstall grub but didn't work

I've unsuccessfully been trying to install Ubuntu or Lubuntu for a couple of weekends now. The installation seems to go fine until the end, when I get the "grub bootloader failed to install" error. I ...
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Gnome Settings not opening

gnome-control-center in terminal is giving Segmentation fault (core dumped) And settings is not starting at all, just loading forever. All this happened after I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.04 Edit: ...
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How to access Windows system reserved with Ubuntu

My Windows 7 got corrupted, and when starting the PC, it says that bootmgr is missing. Since I don't have the Windows disc, I'm trying to put this file using Ubuntu, but I can't access the system ...
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UnetBootIn BootLoader Error

I am trying to install Ubuntu 18.10 as a dual boot option along with my Windows 10. I dont have a flash drive on me right now. And I think DVD drive doesn't work. So I Googled a bit and found ...
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Modify parameters of grubnetx64.efi

I need to customize the grub.cfg path embed in prefix parameter of grubnetx64.efi file which I downloaded from here GRUBNETX64.EFI. I need this for my network boot environment(PXE) setup. I used this ...
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How to remove Grub2 or Windows bootloader?

I was using Windows 10. Then I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as multiboot. Grub2 replaced Windows bootloader. I wanted Windows bootloader. So I installed EasyBCD 2.3 on my Windows 10. Created a new ...
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Sudden failure to boot

I have been using Ubuntu 16.04 for a couple of month without any major problems. Last night after working a bit I suspended it and in the morning xampp server that I was working with was not ...
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Lost ability to boot to any other disk after boot-repair recommended

I have many disks with OS'es. On one disk I had Ubuntu 16 and Windows 7 dual boot, and start OS'es on other disks from it's GRUB menu. Everything was fine before I used gparted for it's repartition: ...
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Can not access Grub on my Ubuntu 16.04.2 machine

A month back I have installed nvidia driver from 'System Update>Additional Drivers' settings. After that my Ubuntu logo splash screen became horrible and I edited grub and set the resolution to "...
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Restore Windows 10 boot option in Grub Bootloader

I've been running Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 next to eachother for quite a while. I could boot into either OS with Grub bootloader. Unfortunatly my Windows 10 install broke and I needed to reinstall ...
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How did someone disable my Ubuntu bootloader?

I recently installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 on my Thinkpad. However, some idiot (who didn't know my password) accessed my computer while I was gone (after I hibernated it) and must have messed ...
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Getting weird error installing Burg

I tried installing Burg to make my dual boot look better. So, I followed these instructions up to the part where it says: "BURG found! Do you want to configure BURG instead of grub2?, click Yes.". ...
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ADB device offline on ubuntu, can't unlock the bootloader

sudo ./adb reboot bootloader error: device unauthorized. Please check the confirmation dialog on your device. I'm getting the above error while trying to connect my Yureka! to my ubuntu 14.04 ...
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Graphical Bootloaders?

I am currently using Ubuntu LTS 14.04 and I am curious about various graphical bootloaders. I have heard of them, such as BURG, GAG, Chameleon, Chimera, etc. However, they (GAG and BURG because I don'...
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Configuring grub for Ubuntu on Lenovo Ideapad Flex 10

Situation I have installed Ubuntu Linux 14.04 on a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 10. The only problem I'm facing now is to configure the bootloader. I'm quite familiar with Ubuntu, but not with grub or ...
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update-grub Not Respecting Preferences from /etc/default/grub

Following the advice from an answer to How do I remove or hide old kernel versions to clean up the boot menu or free space?, I found myself having to put up with the GRUB boot menu every time I ...
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Ubuntu not seeing Windows 7 in bootloader

While I was installing Ubuntu I unplugged my Windows 7 HDD so I wouldn't accidentally partition it. I installed Ubuntu, shut off my computer, plugged back the HDD, rebooted (and using the BIOS boot ...
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Issues with Ubuntu/Win7 dual boot

Hi I'm a newbie to Linux and have been interested in trying it out. My wife has no interest in it so I'm forced to create a dual OS situation but I've really run into a brick wall here. I've done as ...
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how to fix "out of range" problem

I have a dell dimension 4550 with ubuntu 12.04 installed along with Windows Xp. Before the GRUB screen appears, I get the out of range message on my monitor. After a few seconds a dialog box appears, ...
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Bootloader issue on dual-boot

First of all I would like to mention that, I'm completely aware of the duplication rule of this forum and this post has been made only after due research on the topic. Problem I dual-booted a pre-...
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Change Bootloader title to include bit

Secondlife runs on 32 bit linux. I've tried WINE, Crossover, and installing the 32 bit libraries. Nothing has worked so now I'm having to install a 32 bit copy of Ubuntu as a second partition just to ...
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Edit Windows Boot Loader from Ubuntu

I am using Ubuntu 12.10, and Windows 7. I accidentally removed the Windows option from the Windows Boot Loader using EasyBCD. I do not know how to access the windows boot loader configuration files. I ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu

I've installed ubuntu using live CD. But when I turn my computer on, it starts windows 7 instead of giving me right to make a decision, which OS I need to boot. I think I have some problems with GRUB -...
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are bootloaders the same when installing them into different locations?

I created 2 Linux partitions on my secondary drive along with my Windows main drive. One of the partition, when created, i selected to install the boot loader on the Windows drive, and another ...
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install 22.04: Fail to boot after Grub menu

I am trying to install Ubuntu 22 (actually Ubuntu-studio, I don't think that makes a difference) on a a brand new Beelink computer from an ISO copied on a usb stick. The computer came preinstalled ...
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How to install Ubuntu Core (2 versions) into separated hard drives

I want to install 2 Ubuntu core distributions to 2 separated hard drives in one PC. I tried but there is only one distribution shown in the boot sequence menu. How can we change the file /boot/grub/...
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Could not detect failed SSD after failed installation

I recently purchased Hp 15g2039tu. while installing ubuntu in the free space, installation failed. Thereafter the ssd is not getting recognised. Further the boot loader is not visible so that windows ...
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ALERT! /dev/mmcblk1p1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

can someone please shed some light on the situation. I have SoM FETA40i-C/ SBC OKA40i-C installed on a custom board. During boot process OS won't boot randomly into an interactive shell, it stucks ...
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RPi CM4 no USB boot with Ubuntu 22.04.1 for RPi

Hey I've been having trouble USB booting my RPi CM4 with Ubuntu. I have already made other posts on multiple forums (including the RPi forum), however I've mostly been referred to here. The following ...
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How can I take advantage of the secure boot technology that my laptop has?

My laptop has secure boot and from what I understand it is supposed to protect the bootloader. So if my OS gets infected it won't show me any message and boot but if the bootloader is infected it will ...
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Reinstalling Ubuntu which option to choose in Device for Boot Loader Installation

I already have ubuntu 16.04 on my machine and am installing 20.04. I also have GRUB BootLoader. I have seen some videos on installing 20.04 on youtube, almost every video says to choose "/" ...
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End Kernel Panic not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000100 - Ubuntu 22.04

So, after my laptop froze when rebooting on a new installation of Ubuntu 22.04 (dual boot with W11), every time I need to boot I end up with this message (cannot attach picture of the output for ...
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Windows bootloader error: thread exception not handled (dual booted laptop)

The problem I'm new to ubuntu and linux in general (aside from android). I dual booted my laptop that was originaly windows 10. The laptop has grub and windows bootloaders that I use for booting ...
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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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How do I achieve dual boot after a custom Ubuntu install on a Windows 11 machine?

I am trying to add Ubuntu to a new Windows machine. It has a 1 TB SSD with Windows 11 on it. I have shrunk the Windows partition and freed up 500 GB of space for Linux. When I install Ubuntu there's ...
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