boot loader is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and transferring control to the operating system kernel software . The kernel, in turn, initializes the rest of the operating system.. By default, GRUB2 is installed by default in Ubuntu.
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Transition from dual boot single hard drive to multiple drives
Hi I'm looking for tip or things to watch out for, while I make the following changes to my system:
I currently have a dual boot setup on one hard drive (win7 and ubuntu), I am going to change to a ...
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Howto add Windows 7 in the grub on Ubuntu 11.10
I searched all over the internet but there are no solution to my problem, whatever I add, grub menu doesnt show up, I did a grub update but it doesnt detect windows, I don't know what to do, I have to ...
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How can I solve, error:unknown filesytem grub rescue>
I was previously using Win7 and had two partitions on my hard disk. After learning about Ubuntu I decide to remove Windows and install Ubuntu 11.10 instead. All my important files and documents are ...
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GRUB fatal installation of Ubuntu 11.10 - Dual boot for Win7
I have win7 installed in my system and I decided to give Ubuntu a try. I formatted my drive as follow :
C:\ - For Win7 - 55G
D:\ - Data - 40G
E:\ - Unallocated space - 55G -> This is where ...
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dual booting with custom kernels [closed]
so I am trying to dual boot mint and arch linux, so I installed mint and then I installed arch skipping the boot loader. Then I compiled a kernel in mint and ran update-grup. Everything went well up ...
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file not found grub rescue prompt
So, while programming today I got the terminal error saying that ls was not available and to type in some sudo command to get it. I typed in said sudo command and it told me that it didn't work. I am ...
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several start-up scripts?
I want kubuntu to ask me at start up - which of the profile I want to use. There should be a default answer which should run automatically in 3 seconds. Much as if were Grub asking You which ...
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Trouble installing Ubuntu
I have just bought a new PC, namely a HP Pavilion 700 series p7-1015itm, and I tried installing Ubuntu on it.
The fact is, no matter what I try, it seems that Grub does not get installed. After a ...
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How to set Grub to automatically load Xen kernel
How do you configure Grub to automatically use the Xen kernel under Ubuntu 11.10?
No matter what I do, it loads the first menuentry. The only way I can get it to load Xen is to manually select the ...
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HELP! Booting Ubuntu off Portable HDD, lots of issues with GRUB
I am new to Linux. I recently installed Ubuntu Desktop 11.10 onto my portable hard drive. Much to my surprise, it installed half of GRUB to the PC, and half to the PHDD. The PC does not belong to me. ...
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Why can't I see the image changed with GRUB Customizer?
I installed grub-customizer to edit the boot-screen. It works so far (i. e. for timeout), but changes concerning the background image (and maybe font styles, too) aren't applied. I placed the image in ...
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Windows Safe Mode in Grub Menu
Is it possible to place Windows Safe Mode into the Grub menu? If so, what is the script for it? (I am currently running Windows XP and Ubuntu 11.10. I also have the Grub Customizer installed.)
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Grub problem - Command prompt - Closed
Update: Thanks to all who helped. I gave up and am going to re-install. Not the end of the world, no files will be lost :-) This time will be backing up grub haha. Thanks again, I really appreciate ...
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Booting Ubuntu 11.10 brings GRUB CLI
I'm a novice in the Linux world. Windows 7 is my primary OS. Trying to run Ubuntu with Windows. Failed so far.
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 in a second hard disk. I chose second hard disk's MBR to ...
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No Grub Menu at start up after installing Ubuntu 11.10
I had Dual boot with windows xp and Ubuntu 10.4 on my PC. I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on the Ubuntu 10.4. After restart it is directly entering into Ubuntu 11.10. There is no menu at start up for ...
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Install GRUB from Outside Ubuntu
Running Mac OS and Ubuntu 10.10 booting with rEFIt then GRUB. Updated 10.10 to 11.04 and accidentally put GRUB on the wrong volume (I think swap somehow). Can't boot into Grub. Can I install it onto ...
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Enabling nomodeset in Ubuntu and Arch multiboot
I have an ubuntu and archlinux multiboot system. The grub is installed by the ubuntu system. So, it is grub 2. I want to set the nomodeset for the arch boot. I am unable to set it permanently.
I ...
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Make Ubuntu boot from a folder other than /
Is there a way that you can move an Ubuntu install to its own folder in a partition? If so, what settings do I have to change? (I imagine I would have to change grub settings and /etc/fstab.)
I'm ...
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Triple Boot Windows , Windows 8 and Ubuntu 11.10 with Grub?
I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10 installed. If I wanted to install Windows 8 and triple boot with Grub running the show, how difficult would it be? Installing another OS is the easy part. It's the ...
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Ubuntu Grub Screen Problems
I'm running Windows XP and Ubuntu 11.10 as a dual boot, however, at the grub screen, the only way to boot Ubuntu is to select recovery mode and then select resume normal boot.
If I select the proper ...
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Problems installing Ubuntu on SD card on Samsung Q45
My Samsung's HD has recently died so i thought i would purchase a SATA to SD adapter and then try and install Ubuntu on to the SD card. I have ran the install from both Live CD and Live USB and both ...
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Unable to update Ubuntu 10.10 installed in MacBook Pro with dual boot
So, this is my problem:
I was able to install Ubuntu 11.10 in dual boot in my MacBook Pro 5.1 with rEFIt. I had to do it twice because first time I installed GRUB in /sda instad of in /sda3. Anyways, ...
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11.10 dual boot no grub menu
I have installed Windows 7 and then Ubuntu 11.10 on my computer but no grub menu came up on reboot and it went straight into Windows.
I then removed the Ubuntu created partitions and tried Fedora 16 ...
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I have an issue with GRUB - minimal bash like
I am an A level student and for the fourth time in a row, I have experience GRUB when booting. I have lost all of my work and have had to get class notes off of a friend. I do not expect this to ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 SSD install -> error: unknown filesystem
just tried installing ubuntu 11.10 64 and x86 couple of times onto a new ocz vertex plus 30gb. tried with ext3 and 4. after installing machine reboots into ubuntu perfectly but freezes on shut down, ...
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Why is my Ubuntu system not using the correct kernel?
We're having a bit of confusion on a Ubuntu remote system -- /boot/grub/menu.lst suggests the system should boot into kernel 2.6.35-30-generic, but it is actually running kernel 2.6.32-27-generic. ...
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Boot order won't change
Well, I've tried almost everything to set my boot order to what I need it to be. But it just won't.
I changed /etc/default/grub and updated grub,
I used the startupmanager
I even gave ...
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Installing ubuntu and grub on new hdd
I just aquired a new hdd to my windows 7 system and want to install ubuntu 11.10 and grub on it. I have a liveCD but cant make it work. When i chose the new hdd for installation (sdc1) it says "No ...
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Ubuntu constantly freezing at random time
I recently bought completely new hardware and built a server running Ubuntu Server 11.10 x64. Most things are working good, except for one rather large issue that I'm experiencing; the system keeps ...
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Grub overwritten
I've accidentially overwritten my bootloader. I was prepping some live USB sticks and think I accidentially wrote to my local disk instead of my USB stick. Now my machine will only boot in to Fedora ...
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What's the easiest way to configure GRUB in a more user friendly way?
Here is something I'd like for it to do that it does not do by default, and which seem to require (somehow) a bit of research to configure.
What I want is simple. Select the OS that I chose the last ...
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install grub, but NOT in the mbr
you may have become tired of the question i'm about to ask, since i've already found some posts concerning my issue. however, none of those seemed to work for me.
so here's the thing:
my goal is to ...
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Previous versions of Linux in Grub? [closed]
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Is there a way to remove/hide old kernel versions?
So I have linux versions 3.0.whatever-12 to 15 on my laptop, and they made a ton of icons in burg before I broke that. ...
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BURG Installation errors
Yesterday, when I booted my computer I got the Grub loading screen, then my BIOS in an infinite loop. I was able to use boot repair to fix this and boot into both OSes.
Today I decided to install ...
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Grub error 21: Please help recovery the PC!
I have been using my PC with two OSs (XP Pro and Ubuntu). Everything went wrong when I thought it was a good idea to install another version of Ubuntu to an external hard drive. When PC is turned ...
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Stuck in GRUB menu, can't load ubuntu
I got home today to a frozen laptop. I rebooted the system and since then I can't get past the GRUB menu. Each time I select an option in this menu I get a black screen and the GRUB menu returns.
In ...
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Problems with Plymouth
I tried to fix the resolution of Grub and Plymouth, but it didn't work, the signal was out of range during the boot, then I reinstalled grub and it worked again.
But then I tried the program called ...
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installation of Ubuntu at grub time [closed]
last time i have windows as well as fedora. there was problem in partition so i delete the drive of fedora.after reboot i see the message
MINIMAL BASH LIKE EDITING IS SUPPORTED
I understand that was ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 GRUB and windows 7
I have a dual boot system (Windows7 and Ubuntu 11.10). When I start my system grub shows first, then if I choose Windows7, it then shows the Windows7 boot loader.
The problem now is that I have ...
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delete GRUB ubuntu 11.10
how do I delete grub on Ubuntu 11.10. I want to get into ubuntu normally without having to choose which operating system I would run. and how to remove ubuntu with older kernels as shown below
grub
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GRUB doesn't boot-up Windows as default even though I modified it using Start-up manager [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I set Windows to boot as the default in the boot loader?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with Windows XP using GRUB 1.99.
I'm trying to make Windows XP boot up as ...
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Change the grub boot order for ubuntu 11.10
I've got windows 7 and ubuntu installed on a shared machine. A lot of the non-developers use windows.
Currently the order of boot looks like the following (but not word for word)
Ubuntu 11.10 ...
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Windows 7 won't boot after installing Ubuntu 11
I just installed Ubuntu along side to Windows 7, and now Windows 7 will not boot.
When the system starts, it shows me entry for Windows 7 in boot menu, when I click on the Windows 7 option in boot ...
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How do I create a boot disk?
I have a working Ubuntu partition on one of my hard drives, however grub is not installed. What I would like is a 'boot disk' which allows me to boot this partition. Does such a thing exist? I'm ...
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Ubuntu installation GRUB/BootLoader error!
I've been looking around for hours now, and have not found a solution yet.
When I install Ubuntu on my Windows 7 machine using the CD, everything goes great until towards the end of the installation ...
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Install Android OS along with Ubuntu and Windows
I have Dual Boot of Windows and Ubuntu 11.10, I recently learned that it is possible to install Android OS on Laptops, I also learned that in such cases Android uses its own Bootloader, Now what i ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 not showing up in GRUB bootloader after update and restart :(
I was using ubuntu 11.10 with gnome-shell. I installed various useful softwares and ran system update using update manager which ran smoothly and asked me to restart my comp at the end. I restarted it ...
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Ubuntu Lost After Resizing its Partition
I had a partition (sda11) which Ubuntu 11.10 was installed on it.
I resized this partition from 34 GB to 150 GB.
Then I lost the GRUB menu.
I use the Boot-Repair application to fix it.
But now ...
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linux image broken in grub menu
I have ubuntu 11.10.
In my grub menu, I have following images:
linux 3.*
linux 2.*
linux 2.*
My linux 3.* image is broken (if I try to boot from first image, i.e. linux 3.*, I get my caps and ...
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grub multiboot wont start 2nd windows installation
I'm new to Linux - please help
I havent found an answer in the forums yet
I have 2 HDDs
The BIOS reports the HDDs in the following order:
Third IDE Master = 200Gb drive
Fourth IDE Master = ...
