Questions tagged [dual-boot]
For questions regarding the installation of two or more operating systems on a single computer.
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Installation of Ubuntu 20.04 hung up and had to power off. After powering off, cannot boot into Linux on dual boot PC
For a little while now (6 years) my Lenovo z70 laptop was dual booted with having Windows 10 on one partition and Linux Ubuntu 16.04 on another partion.
Unfortunately, I had to upgrade to 18.04 since ...
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Windows 11 not found by update-grub
I have a system with both windows 11 and kubuntu 22.10 installed; in which I am able to successfully boot into each of these via changing boot order in bios. Kubuntu appears inside of the grub ...
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How do you make a backup image of a fully luks encrypted drive?
my wife uses Kubuntu 21.10 (no dual boot) and I use a Kubuntu-21.10/Windows-10 dual boot. Both of our Kubuntu installs where done with LUKS and the drives fully encrypted (my dual boot uses two ssd ...
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Grub setup for fully encrypted Ubuntu and Ubuntu dual boot
For compliance reasons (consulting + some norms), I need a dual-boot setup with two separately fully encrypted systems. My main system is an Ubuntu 20.04 and the second system can also be a Ubuntu LTS ...
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Installing Ubuntu 20.4.3 LTS alongside Linux Mint 20.2
I would like to install Ubuntu 20.04 and use the Plymouth bootscreen with all options while booting. This does not work on my Packard Bell EasyNote LV11 HC since I have Linux Mint 20.2 (Cinnamon).
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Connection failed - activation of network connection failed - dual boot Windows 10/Ubuntu 21.10
I have a newly installed Ubuntu setup. It's installed in a system that's running Windows 10. I installed Ubuntu onto a new dedicated SSD. The install went fine, but I cannot connect to ethernet. I get ...
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Error using live USB to install Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
I'm trying to install Ubuntu in addition to windows 10 on my Acer Nitro 5 an515-52. I installed Rufus and created a live USB as per many tutorials. I have disabled secure boot and made the live USB ...
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Plus and Minus Keys don't work
I dual booted Ubuntu 20.04 alongside Windows 10. In my Ubuntu, the plus and minus signs of my laptop keyboard don't work. They work fine from the numpad, however not from the keys at the top of the ...
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Running slow from boot to shutdown
I got a new computer custom built but with Windows installed about a year ago. I installed Ubuntu for dual boot with grub. It has i7-8700 cpu with 12 cores and 32 Gb RAM.
Generally speaking, it ran ...
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Windows update broke GRUB2 so bad even a live USB key cannot boot (September 2021)
(and welcome to a new "let's hate on Microsoft" thread)
Asus laptop with a 500GB SSD drive, with a 150GB NTFS Windows partition and a 350GB Ubuntu 20.04 partition (almost sure it is ext4). ...
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Ubuntu freezes on boot whenever there are packages to be upgraded
It get's stuck on the boot screen with the Ubuntu spiral thing.
This happens whenever there are packages to be upgraded (via sudo apt-get upgrade)
Why does this happen and how to fix it?
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Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS machine heating
I am Using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Machine with dual booting
I have dual-booted both windows 10 & ubuntu 20.04 in the SSD (250GB). I have noticed that while using ubuntu fan speed is very high & ...
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I can't install Ubuntu because the installer can't see the SSD in my laptop at all
I own a Samsung Galaxy Book S. It came with Windows 10 and I wanna change to Ubuntu. I am booting with a installation media that has Ubuntu 20.10 on it. (Fast boot, Secure boot is disabled). GRUB menu ...
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Convert Windows 10 from Legacy to UEFI with Ubuntu already on UEFI
Currently I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed in UEFI mode and Windows installed in Legacy.
I would like to convert Windows to UEFI to have dual boot.
My disk currently
It is installed in MBR mode and here ...
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Shared encrypted partition for both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04
Does there exists an out of the box or easy to use solution for having a shared encrypted partition for Windows and Ubuntu 20.04?
I found a related question here for Ubuntu 16, but this one is not ...
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XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not owned by us
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid 999!(This could eg happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.)
here was an ...
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Clone Ubuntu and Windows to new SSD
I want to switch to SSD from HDD. I have dual boot on my hp laptop. My C drive in Windows and Ubuntu / directories have less size than new SSD.
But the whole HDD is of 1 TB and SSD of 240 GB. I am ...
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Ubuntu 20.4.1 - vscode freezing and stop responding
I started studying programming this year and always did everything on windows,
but after some problems using docker I decided to do a dualboot with ubuntu.
The problem is that when I'm using vscode ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10. with GRUB listed inside Windows bootloader
I want to dual boot my system with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 but I don't want to disable secure boot.
I came across and installation guide, in which GRUB bootloader was installed inside the root ...
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GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-Boot partition -- but we are on full UEFI!
I had a pre-existing Windows 10 & Ubuntu 18.04 dual boot, in UEFI mode, working with grub2. I previously used Boot-Repair to get that working. They are on separate disks.
I wiped and re-installed ...
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Installed Ubuntu 20.04 a few weeks ago. Now stuck in loop
I recently installed 20.04 in dual boot on my surface book 2. I ran a few weeks without issue until yesterday. I tried booting to windows, and received an error then back to the boot selection screen.
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initramfs unpacking failed decoding failed: error after re-install Grub
I have dual boot windows/ubuntu.
After trying to install new M.2 drive, I must have hit the CMOS or something and my RAID config got reset in my BIOS. So I enabled RAID again but my Ubuntu boot option ...
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Incompatible license aborted. Press any key to continue
I recently using windows 10 for a while. But when I wanted to use Ubuntu I can't able to see dual os selection mode and after some seconds it displays incompatible license aborted press any key to ...
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Need help downgrading Nvidia drivers from 340 to 331 - Ubuntu 20.04
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I'm brand new here, and new to Linux. I'm very comfortable with Windows and macOS. But Linux is a whole different beast and I'm quite overwhelmed.
I thought I'd give Linux a try on my old ...
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Microphone doesn't work in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS fresh install
I have lenovo ideapad 330s with ubuntu 18.04 LTS . The microphone is not working . I have checked by overriding the pin 0x13 . The speaker is fine but during a skpe or facebook call . the other person ...
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Sound not working on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS after update
I recently updated from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS and there is no sound. I dual boot my PC with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Windows 10 and sound is working fine in Windows.
I have tried every guide and ...
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Unable to fix dirty bit on EFI partition
I have just installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my computer in dual boot with Windows 10. After having installed it, each time I boot Ubuntu a file system check is performed. It seems that there is a problem ...
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Dual-booted 2016 MacBook Pro suddenly shows seemingly random color for 30 seconds before crashing
I recently installed Ubuntu on my Late 2016 15in MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I tried running the installer a few times, but it would have this strange issue where the screen would turn a random color, ...
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Missing Operating System When booting from USB drive
I've been searching for hours and can't find a solution. I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu with my Windows 10. I downloaded the iso and burned it to a USB drive, all good. Now when I select the USB as my ...
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Live USB installer not seeing Mac's SSD
I'm attempting to install Ubuntu 19.10 on a Mac laptop with an SSD hard drive (specs below) that's been partitioned with a FAT32 GUID partition. I have a working USB installer, rEFIt is installed and ...
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Dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu error installation
I try to set up Ubuntu in my dell precision laptop (Windows 10). But when my laptop boots Ubuntu from USB, this error occurs:
APCI BIOS Error(bug): Failure creating...
and besides the error messages,...
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Ubuntu freezing during startup
Ubuntu 18 and Windows are installed as dual boot on my Acer Aspire F15 laptop.
Since today my PC freezes completely when restarting, approximately 20 seconds after the grub screen to choose OS, ...
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Unknown file system unnsupported drive / partition?
I have a 1TB HDD that I use on Windows for file storage, and I would like to share this storage between Windows and Ubuntu (dual boot).
But I can't seem to be able to mount this drive in Ubuntu. I can ...
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Fail to boot, suspect filesystem problem
I have a Asus UX305F which has been dual booting Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows successfully using GRUB. Today I started my computer, and it hung on the Ubuntu loading screen for 15 minutes so I hard ...
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Ubuntu 19.04 randomly boots to GRUB command line
I am running a dual boot with Windows 10 on one M.2 SSD and Ubuntu 19.04 on another M.2 SSD (both Intel SSDs, different sizes).
I have set my boot order to boot the Ubuntu SSD as highest priority ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.2LTS very slow to boot
My system has become very slow - it used to boot in 15 secs. Now it takes more than 3 minutes to boot. I've a dell with dual boot (ubuntu and windows) I have been reading about swap disk allocation ...
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ChromeOS not booting from USB install media
I am trying to boot Ubuntu from my Chromebook. It is a Lenovo Yoga C630. I have developer and debug mode turned on, with
crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_legacy=1
I also ran this from the Ctrl+...
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Impossible to install/run Ubuntu 18.04/18.10
Sorry for my bad English:
I'm totally new at Ubuntu, and i'm trying to install it in dual boot with W10 in my laptop (hp omen 15, i7 7700hq, 12gbram, gtx1050, hdd 1tb, ssd crucial 275gb m.2, the usb I'...
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Wake On Lan on dual boot machine (Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10)
I have one SSD with separate partitions for Ubuntu and Windows. After turning the machine on, I can select which OS to boot. After 10 seconds of doing nothing, Ubuntu loads. I want to be able to wake ...
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Grub won't detect Windows 10 on NVME SSD
Installed Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10 a month or 2 ago, but had issues installing and after it installed Grub would never show up at all and I had to choose whether to boot Windows or Ubuntu by ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 doesn't use swap, but whet it does it freezes
My ubuntu 18.04 64bit isn't using the swap file/partition to the point when the 8gigs(of which 7.3 are usable) of ram almost fills up, and when it does, and actually writes some things in swap it ...
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How do I point grub back to a working Ubuntu (btrfs !)
I have installed a second Ubuntu on laptop that had already a MSFT Windows and a working version of Ubuntu 18.04.
Upon rebooting, I realised grub did not show two but one Ubuntu. This new version ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - No Wifi networks found
I have Ubuntu 18.04 Dual booting with Windows 10 on my HP-EliteBook-745-G2, and for some reason, I cannot seem to find WiFi networks through my WiFi adapter, but Ethernet works (however, Ethernet ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 fail to recognize my second nvme ssd
I've just purchased a second NVMe SSD for my laptop(which has dual m.2 slots both support nvme), planning to install ubuntu 18.04 onto it alongside windows 10 (which is installed on the first ssd).
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Boot error: "Failed to start network time synchronization"
When I boot ubuntu then it shows error
[Failed] : "Failed to start network time synchronization"
See 'Systemct1 status systemd-timesyncd.services' for details
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Bitlocker Windows 10 after ubuntu installation
I installed Windows 10 on my main SSD then installed Ubuntu 16.04 after. I ran the Ubuntu setup and checked the option to install ubuntu with Windows 10.
Now I want to use BitLocker on Windows 10. If ...
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Surface Book 2 and Ubuntu
This question has probably been asked a lot regarding compatibility, which I have already discovered and understand. My question is more on the warranty of the device after I have put Ubuntu on it. I ...
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Ubuntu taking about 5 minutes to Boot!
Please suggest if you have some experience with what can I do to decrease boot time. What is the reason for the userspace taking so long?
$ sudo systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 3.395s (...
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Ubuntu 18.04 won't boot and can't get back to Mac OS
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my Mac mini (late2014) and when it boots, it goes directly into Ubuntu. However, it won't load. An error message states the following:
failed to open \EFI\ubuntu\...
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Ubuntu 18.04 very long boot (SSD)
I have some troubles with Ubuntu 18.04 (it installed with windows, but I not using it) and decided to install another linux distro (Manjaro, installation EFI). Installation was success, but manjaro ...
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