GRUB2 is the next generation of the GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB). Ubuntu has used GRUB2 as the boot loader since 9.10 (Karmic Koala). Commonly referred to as simply "GRUB".
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Tried to remove Ubuntu, stuck with Grub
I need help. I tried to install ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows 8 on the same drive (a ssd) but all it gave me was problems-- boots in low-graphics mode, gives errors on start up, etc. etc. I'm done. ...
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GRUB2: When I choose Windows 8, error invalid EFI file path
I had a problem with install Ubuntu 13.04 next to Windows 8. I have a Dell inspiron 15 notebook with UEFI.
In Boot-setup I changed to Legacy Boot on and switched UEFI boot off. Then I installed ...
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grub2 C/H/S value error on Laptop Second hard drive (ODD)
I was living happily with my one hard drive in laptop then I installed a SSD as my first (hd0) then installed the old drive in laptop's second hard drive caddy in CD/DVD drive bay.
now I can't boot ...
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Can't boot Chromium OS from USB! [closed]
I've recently downloaded the vanilla chromium os from hexxah and have written it on my usb stick. I followed every step and plugged it into my laptop. After I changed the boot order I managed to boot ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 won´t boot …help pls [closed]
i installed Ubuntu over Win Vista yesterday, and it all worked fine. No Problem due the installationsprogress. But now if i start my PC and choose Ubuntu the following Screen appears :
Gave ...
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Can't login to GUI, only to tty1-6, /bin is not included in the PATH environment
I was trying to make the brightness controls work after I had made a clean reinstall of Ubuntu 12.04 on my Gateway computer, based on this thread, and proceeded to restart because I also had a few ...
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How to boot into Linux on a regular basis with a grub that has Windows as the default?
In a PC using Windows, I'd like to schedule a boot into Linux every x days (alternatively every x bootstraps).
Is there a way to have Grub2 make this timed, cron-like, boot?
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How do I add a user to sudoers file?
How to I add my username to the sudoers file?
On my ubuntu desktop, the sudoer file has only root.
so basically, I will just need to adduser to sudo file system.
And I need to access to single ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 hangs at grab after upgrading
I met with a problem or two every single time I upgraded Ubuntu to a newer version. And this time, when I upgraded Ubunutu from 12.10 to 13.04 the new problem was that, the booting hangs at GRUB.
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aptitude ugrade does not change my kernel
Sorry if the title is not very clear.
This is rather new to me.
I have ran this 10.04.4 LTS server for over a year now.
I have dutifully used aptitude update / aptitude upgrade on a regular basis ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a USB hard drive from a USB stick
I am trying to install Ubuntu on a USB hard drive from a USB stick (as I understand installing from CD should be much easier, but CD drive is not working, unfortunately).
First I tried to install ...
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(U)EFI > Ubuntu vs Windows 8 - problems with booting Windows
I have a problem with a screwed dual-boot of ubuntu 13.04 and windows 8 on a new DELL XPS 12 (EFI/grub2) System not loading windows8 at all,... here is a story:
I've got a new DELL XPS 12 System with ...
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lenovo g575 grub2 loopback boot sata driver
On another machine I can use grub2 to loopback mount just fine.
On this Lenovo G575 I get the following when I try to loopback boot many different ISO image using grub2, so I think there could be a ...
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hd0 read error; tried boot repair still won't boot [closed]
I have tried to boot from grub rescue from console. I have also tried boot repair, but it didn't help. Here is the full boot repair log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5668816/
Boot repair reports that the ...
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How can I eliminate the choice between Windows and Ubuntu every time I boot?
After making a bootable disk of Ubuntu 13.04, I opened it from windows 8 and ran wubi.exe. Then I was presented with three options...
Reboot now
Reboot later
Help me boot from disk
I selected ...
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Windows 7 is not shown in GRUB menu after 13.04 install
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a secondary hard drive, which has succeeded. But there is no GRUB entry for Windows 7 as an option. Boot-Repair and update-grub did not appear to help.
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Cannot install Ubuntu 12.04 After Windows Install - grub related, boot-repair unsuccesful
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04.2 alongside Windows 7 on a new Samsung 840 SSD.
I have tried the installation twice from scratch, but the same thing happened twice: windows works fine, then I ...
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How can I run “grub-customizer” on Ubuntu 12:04
I need to clear up my start up screen and re-order. I have down loaded the grub-customizer apt but don't know how to run it. any and all suggestions greatfully received
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Fixing Windows 8 after removing ubuntu
I tried installing Ubuntu (successfully) on my Windows 8 machine so i could develop in c and it worked decently for a while. I did this without wubi. However, I later got a virtual machine to run ...
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Issue while installing ubuntu as dual boot [duplicate]
I have Windows 8 professional presintalled on my hp pavilion m6. I need to install ubuntu 13.04 as dual boot. The windows partition i created is not detected on ubuntu installation. How do I install ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 cannot boot after system crash
So, I was using Ubuntu with Opera, recording the screen with Kazam. I was watching videos on Youtube and after a while Ubuntu hanged insanely. I forcibly shut it down by pressing the power button. ...
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Change GRUB2 boot device
I have a MacBook Pro, and I use rEFIned to dual-boot Ubuntu and Mac OS X. In case I ever messed anything up, I installed Ubuntu on an external hard drive. However, I messed up the setup so I installed ...
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How to mount image.iso and create an option in Grub to install?
Every now and then new versions of os are released. I want to try them out but what I don't want to have to burn a new CD/DVD or create a bootable USB, every time.
I don't want to use usb or cd/dvd.
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Reinstall ubuntu dual boot windows xp [duplicate]
I got a ubuntu 10.10 dual booting with windows XP. Everything was working fine, but since 10.10 is no longer supported, i want to upgrade it to 12.10 or 12.04.
In the past i have had loads of problem ...
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How can I “move” GRUB?
I had the following setup on my hard disk
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| Windows (100 GB) | Precise (20 GB) | Documents (~ 360 GB) |
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Grub wont load. cant boot either OS
I'll start by saying I'm not the very tech savvy, so I'll really need help with this!
Problem: I cannot load either my Ubuntu OS OR my Windows 8. when i start my computer, a few lines run saying ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu 13.04 (two Xeons) w/out nolapic parameter
Whenever I attempt to boot, I get as far as the following messages and then it appears to freeze.
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
EDD information not available.
Based on other ...
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No boot disk has been detected or the disk has failed windows 8
I install ubuntu 13.04 on my PC which has windows 8 alreday installed. During install, I checked the second option (about LVM partitions). After install, I cannot boot neither on ubuntu nor in ...
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Want to repair Grub [duplicate]
I have ubuntu 12.04 and windows 8 installed on my system. The main boot manager is grub, also the ubuntu and windows are installed in separate partitions. I want to install windows 7 back in place of ...
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Remove the additional entries in grub [duplicate]
I was trying to get a dual-boot set up with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04. After installing Ubuntu, it wouldn't let me go back into Windows 8. So I ran boot-repair and it fixed it self. Now I have all ...
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UEFI mode problem with windows 8 on sony vaio
This is Manorath. I tried all the options explained in the help page regarding uefi mode when I boot my sony vaio which already contain windows 8 in uefi mode when I am using the ubuntu cd as my first ...
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Grub menu editing help [duplicate]
Is there an app to change the order of the Grub menu?
I am new to Linux and when I press 'e' at the grub menu I get a list of code which, to my untrained eyes doesn't bare any resemblance to the ...
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Bootloader help [duplicate]
I am new to Linux. I am sure if I searched enough I could figure this out but, I keep running into the same issue. I have just recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I unfortunately have only one ...
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Boot issues after attempting dual-boot setup with Windows 8
(I did quite a bit of messing around before asking for help, which in retrospect was a mistake, so the BootInfo might be more useful than my retelling of the events: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5659500/)
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can i install kubuntu desktop on ubuntu with windows 8 dual boot?
I have set up dual boot w8 and ubuntu 13.04 and i'd like to try kde.
What steps should i take to install it and also i would like to know if i'll be able to choose kde from login menu (currently i ...
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Double bootloader after install Burg
Successfully installed the Burg boot loader but after selecting the windows symbol the old Grub boot loader show up for selecting windows or ubuntu.
How can I remove the old bootloader and use Burg ...
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QUESTiON: Dual Boot Launch Windows Noramlly Ok? [closed]
Ok I am new to Ubuntu and have a question. I have a Ubuntu live CD and copied all the files from it except for Wubi on to my 500 GB external har dive. I changed my boot option for #1 as being ...
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13.04 Only booting on occasion
I've been having an awful lot of trouble with Nvidia drivers recently. I've managed to get almost everything working nicely except for the fact that the system only seems to boot when it feels like ...
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Windows 8 doesn't boot after installing Ubuntu (UEFI)
I installed Ubuntu with my UEFI installation of Windows 8 (with windows 7 boot-loader because I don't know how to recover it), and after grub installed, I was no longer able to boot Windows 8.
I tried ...
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In the recovery menu, how do i Enable Networking and then go into the root shell prompt?
Whenever i click on "Enable Networking" it just seems to open me up to a permanent command prompt, not letting me go through any of the Recovery Menu options. I'm pretty sure it's a simple solution, ...
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Customizing Boot Menu
I have a dual boot system: Windows 8/ Ubuntu 13.04.
I have multiple questions to ask regarding the boot menu:
There are two instances of Windows 8, how do I make it to 1?
The default OS is Ubuntu, ...
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How to edit GRUB file at /etc/default/
I was trying to edit GRUB file at /etc/default/ for fixing the brightness issue.
But I am unable to do that as there is no option to save GRUB file after edit. This may be due to some permission ...
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Unable to boot into Ubuntu
I installed Ubuntu 13.04 and then dual booted it with Windows. Now, when I boot into my system, the selection menu does not come up. Instead, it directly boots into Windows. Is there any way to have ...
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Cloning via Clonezilla gives Grub Rescue unknown Filesystem AFTER first boot
I have two external hds one 80gb 2nd 160gb. I want to clone 'disk-disk' from 80gb to 160gb. Now because source is smaller I manually partitioned my 160gb using fsck in cmd mode of Clonezilla. The ...
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burg error after removing entries
Hi I installed burg lately using commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install burg burg-themes
sudo burg-install /dev/hda
sudo update-burg
and later ...
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Dual-boot Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8: Windows doesn't boot
I have installed Ubuntu with dual boot to a preinstalled windows 8 on a Lenovo E-135. I disabled fast start in windows 8 before installation and shrank the partition to give place for Ubuntu. All went ...
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Ubuntu on Virtaulbox - VT-x is not available [duplicate]
Since I couldn't load the boot loader after tons of trys, I decided to install it on a Virtualbox. I havn't tried it before and I'm still brand new to both Ubuntu and Virtualbox. The installation went ...
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What have I to do to change from BIOS to (U)EFI after installation?
I have here a new bought laptop. It's the first device with (U)EFI I was working with. At first I did not get the installation running, so I switched back to BIOS legacy mode and installed ubuntu in ...
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GRUB2 unable to change/find my grub [closed]
I have MINT 14(ubuntu based) Linux installed, dual boot with windows 8. After Mint install, I've been able to change my grub with grub-customizer, worked...Then I, for some tutorial of battery saving, ...
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Unable to repair Grub in ubuntu
I had multiple OS windows and ubuntu, It was working fine but suddenly something happen(or I did some changes which I dont know) and I am unable to boot ubuntu. Even I am not seeing ubuntu drive when ...
