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Boot Loader trouble after install of Ubuntu 20.04 onto USB Flash drive on MacBook Pro w/Bootcamp

I have a MacBook Pro (mid-2015) where I set up a dual boot system with MacOS and Windows 10, which I have been happily running for over 3 years now. At the time I was going to try to triple boot with ...
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Kubuntu dual boot with windows 10 you need to load the kernel first

I'm running kubuntu dual booted with windows 10 and sometimes while booting it gives me an error saying You need to load the kernel first I have no idea why does this happen, But if I press escape ...
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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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Can't select the drive to install Ubuntu

I followed a few tutorial on how to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10. I created a partition(40GB) on my SSD. When I installed Ubuntu, I didn't select to install in a partition and selected the option ...
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Android USB only charges on Ubuntu 20.04/Windows 10 dualboot

I just installed Ubuntu 20.04LTS on my hp laptop with a windows 10 dual boot. All USB devices work fine but when I plug in my phone to the laptop the prompt to select USB options does not appear. I ...
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Ubuntu blinking underscore

I had Ubuntu installed in Dualboot with Windows 8.1 but I don't know how I deleted the 2 OSes so now it's stuck in Grub Rescue. Now I am trying to install Ubuntu but when I boot to my USB it shows a ...
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Samsung Galaxy Book S (Intel) Ubuntu 20.04 installation keyboard/touchpad do not work

I bought an Intel version of Samsung Galaxy Book S recently, and tried to install Ubuntu 20.04 as dual boot along with pre-installed Windows 10. After I select "Ubuntu" from grub (safe ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 on a Windows tablet

I have a Kruger&Matz Edge 1162 tablet with Windows 10 preinstalled and I want to install Ubuntu 20.04 on it. I already tried it once but it didn't seem to take. The installation finished, no ...
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Cant install Windows 8.1 after Ubuntu [duplicate]

I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed on my laptop. I want to go back to Windows 8.1, but it doesn't work. When I put in my install USB it doesn't work. It says "Insert proper boot device". I ...
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My pen drive is not detected in boot menu for dual booting ubuntu 20.04 and windows 10 and RST disabling

I have a dell 15 g3 3590 laptop with 9th gen i5 processor, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and an SSD of 512GB. I have windows preinstalled in it and my bios mode is UEFI. I have also disabled fast startup and ...
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About accessing Ubuntu on hard disk by some other way

I installed Phoenix OS alongside my Ubuntu and set that Phoenix OS as default operating system in grub customizer. Now it can't detect my Phoenix OS . Also I can't access my Ubuntu. So is their any ...
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Ubuntu 20 : Ubuntu doesn't reconnect to WiFi unless I reboot

I am dual-booting my laptop going between Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20 LTS. Initially, I can connect to WiFi, but if I get disconnected for some reason, or if I restart my router, Ubuntu won't reconnect ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 firmware problem

I'm a newbie Linux user and I've just had installed Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10. It was installed not 100% succesfully because everytime I want to install a new program (e.g adobe flash player), ...
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Kubuntu and Windows 10 on a single encrypted LVM SSD

I want to install Kubuntu 20.04. (encryprted LVM) and Windows 10 on the same SSD disk. Kubuntu will delete and encrypt the full disk. How can install both in dual boot then? Normally I install Windows ...
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Unable to switch Linux boot order via SSH

I have to Linux dist installed on two separate HDDs, currently I' m working from home so sometimes need to switch OS back and forth. I tried all these steps from this link: Set “older” kernel as ...
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Set dual boot up on MacBook Pro 2019, but I'm unable to install ubuntu 20.04

I’m an SE trying to set up a new work environment and it’s been decided I must set up my MacBook Pro 2019 16” (running MacOS Catalina 10.15.5) to dual boot ubuntu. so I flashed ubuntu20.04.iso to an ...
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How to backup a folder with cloud like storage but offline?

I have a shared drive which is formatted as ntfs. When booting Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu, the drive mounds and I can read and write to it. The shared drive (s/:) is a third partition of the SSD. ...
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Dual Booting With Windows 10 not working [duplicate]

We installed ubuntu linux in windows 10 machine. However, we are not getting dual booting option to run ubuntu after rebooting the laptop. After rebooting, windows 10 always shows up, never ubuntu ...
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How can I get a 2006 MacBook Pro (2,2) to boot the LIve CD/USB?

I have this old MacBook Pro, model 2,2 (from late 2006) that I thought I’d revisit, and put Ubuntu on (the optical drive doesn’t work anymore, so making a live DVD won’t help). I want it to dual boot ...
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BIOS Legacy and GPT partitioned external HDD installed with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Boot repair result shows error about sectors

Why does the error show during boot-repair? FYI: My external HDD size 4TiB. ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on I have my machine which shows as: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lscpu Architecture: ...
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PC boots to grub console after booting Windows, but `exit` still leads to Windows

I have a Dell Precision 5540. I decided to try my hand at installing Ubuntu 20.04 as a dual-boot with the pre-installed Windows 10, and at first, it worked. It rebooted to Grub following the ...
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Dual boot with separate drives. GRUB in the wrong EPS

Have an issue with dual boot (Ubuntu 20.04 / Windows 10). I installed Windows 10 first, and just incase, I unplugged the other drive so Windows can't put any files on it. I then replugged the other ...
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More Room for Ubuntu - How do I use GParted to Make Ubuntu Partition Bigger [duplicate]

I have been using Ubuntu for a few years now, but am now faced with running out of space for the Ubuntu partition on the newest desktop that I built. Both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS are on a ...
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How to safely delete a second Ubuntu installation that I don't need

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and installed 20.04 alongside, in a new partition. However I now realize that this is a mistake. All data is still in 18.04 and 20.04 is empty, it is not an update as I ...
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Delete Ubuntu with separate efi

I first had Windows 10 installed with EFI partition, I later installed Ubuntu and created a separate EFI partition for its bootloader. Now I want to delete Ubuntu. Can I directly delete the EFI ...
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No ethernet connection available in Ubuntu 20.04

I just installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a clean SSD alongside windows to do C development and when I first booted, there was no internet connection yet my ethernet worked perfectly in windows. My network ...
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How to give more space to Ubuntu in triple boot? [duplicate]

I have 3 Operating Systems on my machine - Windows, Kali and Ubuntu. I wish to increase the space given to Ubuntu from Windows. I'm not sure how to proceed in this case. Here are my partitions as ...
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Dual boot between Windows 7 and Lubuntu 20.04

My laptop is DELL Inspiron 15R 5520 with Windows7 64 bit installed and i want to install Lubuntu 20.04 on a free space on the same laptop to dual boot between Windows 7 and Lubuntu. What are the side ...
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How to uninstall Ubuntu 16.04 which is in dual boot with Ubuntu 20.04

I have got a dual boot Ubuntu 16.04 with Ubuntu 20.04. How do I uninstall Ubuntu 16.04?
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Live boot cannot see hard drives

I used Yumi to install multiboot for Ubuntu and Mint live. On the same external hard drive I have a separate ext4 partition, which I would like to do a full install of Linux on. When I got to install, ...
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Is it possible to extend my "computer" partition?

I was trying to dual boot Ubuntu in my laptop, and as I have 2 drives (SSD - 128GB AND HDD - 1 TB) and as my ssd contained my windows, I wanted to get Ubuntu running in my HDD, so I tried making ...
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Problems with an external HDD

First of all, sorry for my english, but i really hope that someone could help me with my problem, here is it: I tried to install Arch Linux in my external HDD, alongside with Ubuntu 20.04. The thing ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop Migration From 120GB SSD To RAID1 (software) 1TB SSD Not Booting

I initially installed Ubuntu Studio 20.04 onto a 120GB SSD. I'm wondering if it is possible to migrate this to RAID1 (software) with (2) 1TB SSD drives. What's confusing me is how Ubuntu Studio 20.04 ...
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I/O Error when attempting to install the latest Ubuntu? How can I fix this? [duplicate]

Well the latest Ubuntu has shipped and though I would love to use it on my new used Thinkpad for programming, when ever I install it I get an Error saying something to the effect: "I/O Error... ...
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How to merge two partitions on the same hard drive (one of which is the system file)?

I'm very new to Linux, coming from lifetime of Windows. And also, apparently, stupid because even though there are many questions similar to mine, I can't seem to find (or rather understand) solution. ...
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Install ubuntu on alienware m15 r3 [duplicate]

I am about to purchase the Alienware m15 r3, and I usually dual boot all my computers, but I have seen some people experience some difficulties while trying to install ubuntu on an Alienware, and I ...
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Can't Turn Bluetooth On

When I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 it was working great, but then I accidentally booted to windows 10, and then it stopped working. I was wondering if there was a way to reset the adapter or ...
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want to set up a dual boot [duplicate]

Problem: I wanted to make it a dual boot system, however I am unable to get the machine to boot from either the disc or a bootable USB drive. I have disabled the safe boot mode, but still to no avail. ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 on Macbook hangs *EVERY time in desktop environment

I'm a total noob with Ubuntu installed on a partition on my mid-2009 Macbook as a dual-boot, no rEFInd, just booting in by holding down Option key and choosing EFI Boot when I want to. Some basic ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu with Windows: cannot change from RAID to AHCI through BIOS

I recently got a new laptop HP Envy (Model: 15M-ED0023DX). Its full SSD machine and I want to the change the SATA from RAID to AHCI so that I could see the partitions when I boot from pendrive (Ubuntu)...
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Dual boot ubuntu only loads in terminal mode after deleting Python

I have a dual boot through grub. Windows 10 is the default and Ubuntu is the other login. I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 early after ignoring all the warnings and most things were fine but I've been ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 server 'Live?' Can Not detect muti-partitions UEFI and CSM backward compatibility

Unlike Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 20.04 'Live??' does not have the same capability to detect 12 partitions under the UEFI and CSM - or backward compatibility firmware configuration. Is a real "Ubuntu ...
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Laptop goes to sleep randomly when turned on

I have dual booted Linux with ubuntu and windows 10. Everything seems to be fine on the windows side, but when I try to use ubuntu, laptops go to sleep randomly, and weirdly when I press the power ...
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Going from dual boot to single boot

I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed in a dual boot with Windows 10 on a single 500GB SSD. I use Grub to choose which OS to boot into. The drive has a boot partition, then a Windows NTFS partition, then ...
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No wi-fi adapter found in Ubuntu 18.04, it was working properly before but stopped working yesterday, Intel Wireless 8260 adapter

QUESTION UPDATED I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10. Wifi was working fine until two days ago, and it stopped working for no apparent reason. Wifi in Windows 10 is working fine. There ...
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Dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04

I want to install Ubuntu alongside with Windows 10, but I wouldn't have written this question if everything went OK. I am getting a list of errors and the system crashes every time I start the ...
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Emergency mode screen and fsck doesn't work

I'm stuck at the "You are in emergency mode screen" (Ubuntu 20) while trying to log in into my machine. I booted from a liveUSB and run the command fsck but doesn't seem to work. First I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 on DualBoot fail 90% of tries - Initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed

I just installed Ubuntun 20.04 on a Dell Latitude 7400 on DualBoot. I had to remove the RST as mentioned on this post : https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-installation-on-computers-with-intel-r-rst-...
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Queries about distro switching and dual booting [closed]

This is my compilation of my questions regarding distro switching. To begin with, where are all my programs stored in linux?(like the c:/ drive in windows) If I switch distros (I know my files will be ...
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Can't install Kubunutu since it says space is unusable. ( dual boot along side windows 10 )

I can't install Kubunutu since it says my space is unusable. I am trying to dual boot it alongside windows 10 and I gave it 35 gb storage. I am pretty sure it is because I have more than 4 partions on ...
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