Questions tagged [dual-boot]

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Cannot boot to Windows 8.1 after installing Ubuntu

The issue is fixed, I had forgotten to change boot mode and boot priority in BIOS to UEFI and UEFI First, and also 'Optimize for' from 'other OS' to 'Win8 64bit' First of all, sorry if this question ...
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How to make space in /boot/efi without resizing the partition?

I upgraded to 20.04 yesterday. I just noticed that in Ubuntu Software there is an update for Dell Inc. System Firmware, but my system does not have enough space to run the update. Is there any way ...
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How do I install Ubuntu to a new disk on a system that already has a disk with Windows installed on it with BitLocker enabled?

I'm creating this question because I wasn't able to find existing questions after searching that described the issue I ran into. Existing questions dealt with the scenario where you want to install ...
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Auto disable secure boot when switching to ubuntu 22.04 [duplicate]

Currently, my laptop is set up with dual-boot for Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04. However, when using a external adapters in Ubuntu, I need to disable Secure Boot. Unfortunately, I don't want to disable ...
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Install Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu 18.04

I'm trying to install Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu 18.04 because I want to try some games on my laptop, and then go back to Ubuntu. I have two USB Flash Drives, one with Windows 10 and the other with ...
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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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My wifi is not showing

I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.3Lts, and I have the pro version activated. My desktop has a motherboard model mag B760m mortar wifi DDR4. And I have dual ssd drive. 1 for windows and the other for Ubuntu. ...
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Can't see Ubuntu on Boot Menu as an option. I can see only Windows [duplicate]

I have an ASUS TUF A15 Windows laptop and recently I installed Ubuntu(23.10) alongside Windows 11 as a Dual boot. From the time I installed Ubuntu, I had issues lining up. I am very new to Ubuntu so I ...
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MSI Katana is not finding the SSD during Ubuntu 20 installation

I get a MSI Katana 15 recently, during the Windows 10 installation I had the same problem but for windows there is the driver online. Once that you extract the driver in the bootable pen drive it is ...
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Dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu on SD card EFI (Chuwi VI10)

I have bought a Chuwi VI10, very cheap chinese computer dual booting Windows 8.1 and Android. It runs InsydeH2O BIOS. I got rid of the Android stuff and decided I wanted to install Ubuntu on the SD-...
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Failure to dual boot my dell latitude 7390 2-in-1 i5 8gen laptop

Please I have dual booting on my dell latitude 7390 2-in-1 i5 8gen laptop. When ever i try booting to ubuntu this error message comes "cant change power state from D3cold to D0" ( config ...
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Windows boot cannot find windows 10 partition on Ubuntu dualboot

The title is my theory of what happened, but I'm not certain: I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10, but while I am now able to boot Ubuntu without any issue, I am not longer able to boot Windows 10....
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Ubuntu 20.04 Installation stuck, dual boot with Win10 in the same SSD

I have a Window 10 installed on a SSD, and previously there was also the Ubuntu 18.04 dual boot in the same SSD. I formatted the Ubuntu 18.04 partition, and hoping to do a fresh install of the new ...
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Cloning a dual boot SSD to larger SSD

I have just completed cloning my original 256Gb drive to a new 1TB SSD using dd. The original drive initially came with W11 on it and I added dual boot with Ubuntu 22.04 but the Ubuntu stopped working....
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dual booting Ubuntu 12.04 and windows 7 (partitioning scheme)

I would like to ask for help on dual booting because it's my first time to try dual booting and a novice on Ubuntu or any Linux distribution. I have 2 partitions on my hard disk: Windows 7 C:\ ...
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Why is Ubuntu's grub2 menu made the default grub menu? Is it possible to change it?

I have 2 hard disks — a 240 GB SSD and a 2 TB standard disk. I put Windows, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu 16.04 on the SSD, the sda and Fedora and Kali Linux on the 2 TB disk, sdb. Now, as I was installing ...
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Second monitor freezing ... necessitates restart

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04 on a 100 GB partition alongside Windows 11 on an HP Envy with an intel core i7 with integrated iRISxe. I've plugged an old Acer monitor to the HDMI port as a ...
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Stuck in emergency mode after upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04

I have an older laptop that has a partitioned hard drive. Windows 10 on one side and Ubuntu 20.04 on the other. Yesterday I downloaded and loaded Ubuntu 22.04 now I am stuck in emergency mode. When I ...
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nvme device not ready aborting installation Busybox/Initramfs error when booting Ubuntu [duplicate]

In my computer, i first installed Windows 11. And then Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop. The problem is, most of the time when i try to boot Ubuntu, i get the nvme device not ready, aborting installation error. ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.3 Installer Does Not Recognize anything at "Installation Type" Menu and crashes when pressing +, -, or change

I have downloaded the official 22.04.3 installer from Ubuntu, and followed their tutorial to making an installation media with Rufus. Everything works very smoothly within Ubuntu when I try it, but ...
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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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reinstall grub after installing second linux distro

I run Ubuntu (more precisely Mint21.3), Windows and one more linux distro on an old Sony Vaio laptop (3rd generation i3 processor). It has only one disk formatted with GPT and uses UEFI. I I've ...
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Insmod error in grub: symbol not found:grub_realidt

I have a dual boot PC with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 and then to 13.04 and since then I have not been able to boot because the PC goes into grub rescue with the error "File ...
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How to access Windows files from Ubuntu 23.10 which is installed alongside Windows Boot Manager

I used the Install Ubuntu alongside Windows Boot Manager option, and now whenever I try accessing my SSD I run into this error: Error mounting /dev/nvme0n1p3 at ...SSD: wrong fs type , bad option, ...
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Partitions not detected during installation Ubuntu 17.10

I deleted the Ubuntu 64bit partition from Windows 10 to extend its size and I am trying to reinstall it on my PC. The problem is, Ubuntu installer is neither detecting the windows installation nor the ...
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What is a block device?

I am creating dual-boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I want to check Windows 7 installation block device. What is block device? How to distinguish the Windows 7 installation block device from ...
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How can I reinstall GRUB to the EFI partition?

I want to reinstall GRUB 2 and I found these instructions: How to Repair, Restore, or Reinstall Grub 2 with a Ubuntu Live CD or USB. In my case, the boot loader is installed in the EFI partition. If I ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 wifi icon showing only sometimes and connecting

I have a HP Pavilion Windows 11 laptop. I recently installed ubuntu 22.04 on dual boot. However,the wifi icon is showing sometimes only. I tried to check for additional drivers but none found. I tried ...
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Booting from Ubuntu USB on Dell Inspiron 5000

I am trying to install Ubuntu from a USB on a Dell Inspiron 5000. I made the bootable USB with the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator. I manged to boot into it using my regular machine, so I think the ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 does not start after running CHKDSK from Windows in a unused partition

In my system I have two SDDs: with Ubuntu 23.10 and Windows 11 two main partitions: one ext4 for /home and one NTFS for generic storage in Windows Until few weeks ago I was able to mount the "...
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Ubuntu installation does not show "Install alongside Windows" option

I just got a new laptop, DELL Precision 5520. I have more than enough space as well as RAM, etc. I go to install Ubuntu (22.04) and it does not show the option alongside Windows. It did come with ...
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Using Texlive installed in Windows for Ubuntu

I have both Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I use Texlive 2012 with Texmaker in Win7. Is it possible to use it (Texlive) in Ubuntu so I won't have to download 2Gb again! I hope it was clear. (I'm newbie in ...
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Did i lose my ubuntu? I have no idea what actually happend to all its data

So, I decided to try out ubuntu on a dual boot with windows. The way I did everything was: I shrunk my OS drive in windows disk manager, then using live boot Ubuntu and gparted I made 3 partitions for ...
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trying to dual boot - unknown chipset nouveau issue with no options to install driver using grub

I am trying to dual boot my pc with windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. I used both balena etcher and rufus for making the flash drive, same problem for both. My flash drive has 32 gb so it is fully ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu 22.04.03 : how to free more space on disk

I recently dual booted my Lenovo i7 windows computer to use Ubuntu 22.04.03. I initially freed 100 go of memory for the OS but I realize that it is not much. My computer is 1 To. I understand that I ...
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"no bootable device" after unsuccessful dual boot install attempt

I wanted to dual boot Xubuntu with Windows. I didn't notice that the laptop wasn't plugged in until it was too late. I still need to keep Windows, but I don't know how to boot it.
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Grub failure after removal of second system

I installed Ubuntu Server 23.10 on the computer with Kubuntu 23.10 on the second disk. After some time I deleted the second system, just formatted the disk and on Kubuntu I did update-grub. After ...
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Partition usage

I am using dual boot of Windows 11 and Ubuntu. I see a lot of partitions in Ubuntu. I want to find out the partitions that contain Windows or Ubuntu operating system files. Then I want to merge ...
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Trying to boot Ubuntu from flash drive in UEFI mode does nothing

I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu on a tabletop computer with Windows 10 on it, and an Asus motherboard. I checked that the partition types on my disks is GPT and that the BIOS mode is UEFI, and so I ...
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How can I re-encrypt my laptop? After windows 11 dualboot with ubuntu 23.10

How can I re-encrypt my laptop? When I turned it on I had windows 11, and I wanted to dual boot it with ubuntu 23.10. I had to disable the windows 11 bitlocker to install it. After installation I can'...
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How to make ubuntu understand a windows-style folder path as a folder on windows partition?

I have ubuntu and Win7 on dual boot. On windows, a use a program that is set to save things on a given windows folder (like "D:\some folder"). On ubuntu, I can run this exact same program (it's not a ...
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Unable to access ubuntu partition - GRUB issue

I have huge problems in accessing Ubuntu. I have dual-boot and recently reinstalled windows. This caused a problem to grub boot-loader, in the sense that Ubuntu is completeley inaccessible. The first ...
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rsyslog and dbus (and others) failing to start after custom-partition install

After installing Ubuntu 22.04.3 with the option to manually choose the partitions (for dual boot reasons; I chose /boot on an 2 GB ext2 partition and / on an encrypted ext4 partition), systemd-...
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Dual Booting Ubuntu, Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x00000009

I know this question has already been asked. But im installing the ubuntu for the first time and i dont have a 'Grub' to change into another kernel or whatever. Im trying to install 18.4.3 alonside ...
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Ubuntu not detecting particular wifi (dual boot, Macbook)

This is not a question, but to provide a solution to people suffering this problem. I've tried every step suggested out there, but none of them worked. To describe my issue, I have a Macbook Pro, duel ...
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Partition 256 GB SSD for dual Boot, Windows 10 + Ubuntu 19.04

I plan on installing Ubuntu 19.04 and give it 100 GB of my 256 GB SSD space and leave the rest for Windows as I would primarily be using Ubuntu. A. Now, as I plan to install a lot of applications ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 backlight problem, only boots from recovery mode

As a new Ubuntu user, I am facing a problem with my backlight. After succesfully dual booting Windows 11 and Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS on my HP ENVY x360 15-es0570nd (Intel core i7 processor and NVIDIA ...
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How to set up dual monitor 3840 x 1080, single background image

I have just installed Ubuntu 23.10, "mantic" on my Beelink Mini-S computer. I have two HDMI monitors, and they are configured for 3840x1080, and I have full access to the dual desktop, I ...
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Error when switching from Windows 11 to Ubuntu

I have Windows and Ubuntu installed. Both systems work properly. Switching from Ubuntu to Windows has no problems. But when switching from Windows to Ubuntu the computer hangs up showing error message ...
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How to remove fwupd.service from boot?

I am trying to speed up my boot time because currently windows boots up faster from my secondary disk drive opposed to Ubuntu 18 on my SSD. After looking at other post I use the command systemd-...