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Grub problem on dual boot UEFI installation - Boot on grub console, boot-repair doesn't help

[Before the problem] Recently, I've installed Kubuntu 20.04 on my work computer with a dual boot with windows. The computer has an SSD, and a HDD. The SSD contains a EFI partition at the beginning, ...
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Ubuntu partitions (/, /home & swap) are showing under a Windows extended partition? And, how to use the existing /home partition?

I was getting frequent error messages (usually on Ibus Preferences – which were very frequent, and errors on few on other categories too). So, I re-installed using a LiveCD creating new partitions for ...
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How to boot Ubuntu when stuck on line dev/sdaX: clean, XX/XX files, XX/XX blocks

When booting my Ubuntu after a fresh install, after I select Ubuntu from the grub menu, it starts booting and then it stop with just this one line: dev/sdaX: clean, XX/XX files, XX/XX blocks I ...
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Restore old Linux root to a new system without touching new GRUB

I had a working ubuntu 20 (disk A) to which I overwrote root from a previous ubuntu 20 (disk B) install. GRUB went mad, and I eventually gave up fixing, because of relevant details I will list below. ...
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Windows 10 and Ubuntu Dual Boot with separate ESPs

Recent Windows 10 feature update ruined my dual boot. I want to install Ubuntu again. However, I would like to use a different EFI partition than Windows for Ubuntu. I aim to avoid the described ...
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Booting into ubuntu with grub rescue - incompatible config file

After installing ubuntu 20.04 on a new differnt drive from my Windows 10, I restored my linux / from previous install as explained here. Before restoring I was able to go from Linux to Windows by ...
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Unable to install Lubuntu 20.4

I'm trying to install Lubuntu on a Dell laptop. I'm trying dual boot, already have installed windows 10 in UEFI mode. I've allocated 16gigs of ext4 for root, 4 gigs for swap and 500mb for /boot/efi. ...
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Installation of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is getting stuck everytime

I purchased a new Asus TUF A15 (FA506IH-AL057T). It has AMD 4600H processor and Dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650. The Storage is 1TB HDD+ 256GB NVMe SSD. It comes with a Windows 10 HOME. I tried ...
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Trying to install Ubuntu along with Windows 10 but grub file missing and the result from boot-repair made everything worse

recently, I’m trying to install Ubuntu and Windows 10. My mistake is install Ubuntu with Legacy mode. After restarting my PC, grub bootloader wasn’t show and I was trying to fix that by using command ...
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Can't boot Windows 10 after installing, Ubuntu 20.04 pre-installed on different drive

I have been using Ubuntu for a few months, and was trying to install Windows 10 as dual-boot for software/games that don't work in Wine. Ubuntu 20.04 is installed on a 120GB Kinston SSD. 1TB Seagate ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa freezing after logging in as user

Machine (HP, about 4 years old): https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavilion-15-au063nr-15-6-core-i7-6500u-12-gb-ram-1-tb-hdd-us-w2l52uaraba/ On ubuntu 20.04 and Win10 dual boot. So to summarize: I'll ...
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System BootOrder not found. Initializing defaults

I'm using dual operating system for 2 weeks: Windows 10 and Ubuntu. But today I can not boot into Windows. It says System BootOrder not found. Initializing defaults. then boots into Ubuntu directly. ...
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Black screen of unending errors in Ubuntu 20.04

I recently updated by system from 18.04 to 20.04. I am dual-booting it alongside Windows 10. Today, while working as usual, my system suddenly froze. So, I waited sometime for it to go back to normal (...
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Ubuntu Stuck At Boot Screen

I restarted ubuntu 20.04 as usual but this time at got stuck at the boot screen. I've been waiting for 20 minutes but nothing is happening. Is there a way I can fix this? Boot Screen Image:
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Problem with wifi on Dual Boot

I've dual booted my legion y530 with Windows and Ubuntu 20.04. The wifi in Ubuntu doesn't work (shows no visible networks) if I've booted it up directly but works when I first boot up windows and then ...
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Ubuntu not booting due to iwlwifi error-BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS

I updated Ubuntu 20.04 to 5.4-40 kernal update, since then I am unable to boot up into ubuntu. I am having Windows 10 and ubuntu dual-booted. This is while bootup.
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Dual-boot Ubuntu sometimes boots to a black screen

I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed alongside Windows 10. Sometimes when I restart the laptop and select Ubuntu from Grub menu, I reach a black screen and then nothing happens. When I long press the power ...
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Ubuntu 20 Kernel panic after moving and resizing root partition

My system was running smoothly until my root partition started running out of space. So I decided to try to resize it, unfortunately I needed to move it to the left as well. It seems that the process ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 slow boot issue

After experimenting with some suggested remedies to similar boot issues in the forum, my hp pavilion g4 notebook (i5, 4GB RAM) (Windows+Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop dual boot) took much longer time to ...
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Uninstall Remove Windows from Grub [duplicate]

So First off .Thank You everyone for the enormous help that you all have given me. Any problem i had i would always come digging here. Now i have a common dual boot system. Ubuntu & Windows . What ...
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Access RAID1 content from other Linux system of a dual boot

I have prepared for a friend a little NAS made of Ubuntu Server 20.04 on an SSD and two HHD in RAID1. The software RAID1 has been made during the Ubuntu installation, here some info about it: $ fdisk -...
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Ubuntu20 Bluetooth service unavailable after booting in W10

Since my last windows update, when I reboot in Ubuntu I can't activate bluetooth. I'm with ubuntu20.4 and Unity. The bluetooth icon is not present in the upper-right corner and in the setting's ...
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Ubuntu image restore in external hard disk problem

I have Ubuntu 18.04 in my working SSD. I wanted to migrate to a new Ubuntu 20.04. So I installed a new Ubuntu 20.04 and working in it. Now the old Ubuntu 18.04 was taking a lot of space in my working ...
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How to copy the GRUB menu to another disk whilst keeping the original

I tried to install Ubuntu (20.04) directly to a USB key for a friend to try out Ubuntu. I did the install using my Ubuntu (19.10) system to do so. All went well installing to the USB key and it boots ...
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System not booting to USB. I want to install dual install Windows alongside presently Ubuntu

I have Ubuntu 18.04 running. I want to install Windows 10 alongside. Whenever I boot my system, it opens the Grub menu (which only lists Ubuntu and memory test) and does not boot from Removable Disk. ...
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Can't boot Windows 10 after Installing Ubuntu 18.04 Multiple Drives Messed UP!

Context Disk /dev/sda: 670.8 GiB, 720201591808 bytes, 1406643734 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 ...
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Is it Safe to dual boot windows 10 and ubuntu in single ssd?

I have ssd 240gb , i want dual boot with shrink 60gb from windows , is it safe for my windows cause i dont want file in windows is damaged . I just need ssd just for fast system file and os and some ...
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Problems with Dual Booting my Lenovo legion y530

I'm trying to dual boot my legion y530. When I try to boot the bootable pendrive this error is coming up. Ubuntu does boot up after that and installed correctly. But after 3 days randomly ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has gone into READ ONLY mode after I ran ntfsfix on its partition

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has gone into READ ONLY mode. I ran sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda9 (which is definitely my Ubuntu partition). Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing. FAILED Attempting to correct errors....
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cannot boot in normal mode

On my laptop Dell G3 15 I am running a dual boot, ubuntu 20.04 alongside with Windows 10. Windows works fine if the SATA operation is on RAID on and secure boot is enabled. however, Ubuntu (with SATA ...
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Why can't I launch Ubuntu in a computer with Windows 10? [duplicate]

I installed Ubuntu 20.04 two weeks ago in my new laptop. The laptop has Windows 10 so I decided to keep both OSes. It worked properly until last week, when it started to launch Windows automatically, ...
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The WiFi is disabled when I start with Windows and then go back to Ubuntu. A restart is required for WiFi to start

Steps to reproduce: Start the PC and in the Grub i select to start with Windows Work in Windows Go back to Ubuntu The WiFi does no start I restart de PC and start with Ubuntu again, then the WiFi ...
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GNU GRUB opens directly upon booting

I found other similar questions but my outputs are different. Firstly, when I write ls with partition names I get same results this is what I get: ls (proc) (hd0) (hd1) (hd2) (hd2, gpt6) (hd2, gpt5) (...
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wanto install ubuntu on fresh hdd 500GB

i have a 500GB internal HDD- blank want to install ubuntu + win 10 dual boot downloaded the iso file ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso from ubuntu website try to boot through USB- but says media not ...
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Duplicate grub 2 on boot menu

While installing ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop with a bootable usb, I used easyBCD (free version) on windows to add/manage the boot menu. I had chosen the root partition of linux ( / ) to write the boot ...
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Completely remove grub dual boot screen and boot directly to ubuntu

I have installed both Windows 10 and Ubuntu in my laptop. I can select boot option in my UEFI settings. If I select windows boot loader my system will directly boot into Windows but if I select Linux, ...
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I can't update my grub, error below

I can't seem to update my grub. I have tried the grub customizer and using the install.sh files. When I use the install.sh files I get the following error: /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 11: /etc/default/...
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Can't see the bottom of the installation window

Hi I have a Asus Rog Strix GL703VD and when I try to install ubuntu first I have to either chose "safe display" or set the settings to 'nouveau.modeset=0' (it boots showing command lines but ...
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20.04 - Sometimes unable to wake from suspend, and touchpad not working after waking from suspend

I am running a dual booted windows 10 and ubuntu 20.04 with standard GNOME interface on a huawei matebook 14 D, which uses an AMD ryzen 5. I have been experiencing some strange problems surrounding ...
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Grub: can't use arrow keys to navigate (works in Bios)

I have a USB-Keyboard in a non-USB-3 port. I have xubuntu 20.04, Grub 2.04-1ubuntu26 and Windows 10. Boot is on the xubuntu disk. I can't select any boot options. The countdown halts when I press a ...
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How to remove fedora from boot menu after formatting the disk of fedora?

I have two disks 512 and 128 and i installed fedora on 128gb and i formatted the volume next day but when I start up I can still see some parts of fedora like fedora-workstation from dev/mapper/fedora ...
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Cannot repair grub2 menu using boot-repair

I have a multi boot setup on my Thinkpad P43s laptop with windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. Everything has worked fine until I changed some Thunderbolt 3 configuration in BIOS to try a fix a well know ...
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How to manually add a boot loader on a EFI partition, in a dual-boot case?

Before I had: Partition 1: 100MB (EFI) Partition 2: 300GB Windows 7 Now I added these 2 partitions and installed Ubuntu 18.04: Partition 3: 100MB (second EFI partition) --> "Device ...
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Will using ubuntu from a external hdd give me same performance as using ubuntu from internal hard drive?

I have a potato laptop and I intend to use blender from ubuntu in order to get somewhat better performance for rendering and modelling and other stuff. I also need windows because I use davinci ...
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Best practice: Dual boot with internal SSD or external SSD (DELL XPS)

Hi I would love to get an opinion from experts on the best way to go. The case is as followed: For my new software engineering internship, I need a Ubuntu env to program in because they all work with ...
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Dual-Boot with Win10 - Win Boot says 'invalid EFI file path' after restart

Whenever I run boot-repair, I can boot once into Win 10. After I boot to Linux again, I get the above message whenever I try to boot again into Win 10. The exact message is: error: can't find command '...
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GRUB Error - minimal bash-like line editing

I have dual boot my Dell 5577 with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Initially I allocated 100 GB to Ubuntu but I found it insufficient so I added extra 100 GB from my hard drive by creating a bootable ...
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Converting Ubuntu 20.04 boot from legacy to UEFI after installation

Dual booting.I installed my Ubuntu in legacy mode because windows(10) didn't recognize the USB in UEFI. Is there any way to convert the grub from legacy to UEFI boot? OR is there any way to re-install ...
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Windows Boot Manager still present even after removing Windows 10

I had originally installed Windows 10 on my PC on SSD. Then I decided to dual boot Ubuntu alongside but on HDD. The grub was installed on the HDD, hence to see the GRUB menu, I had to select HDD (...
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Share files in dual boot ? Both os on different ssd with an hdd for file

I am just going to create a dual boot pc. I have a windows 10 installed on ssd and have another hdd which store other data. I am going to add additional ssd for ubuntu 20.4. How do I share the data ...
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