From the Ubuntu Wiki page for GRUB2: GRUB 2's major improvements over the original GRUB include: Scripting support including conditional statements and functions Dynamic module loading Rescue mode Custom Menus Themes Graphical boot menu support and improved splash capability ...
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Problem starting Ubuntu 12.04
I have an Acer Aspire 7730 laptop (Acer Aspire 7730). After a power failure it shows me only the GNU GRUB menu with these options:
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0.24 - generic
Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0.24 - ...
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How to fix "error: unknown filesystem. grub rescue>
I'm not exactly sure what I did I believe I installed ubuntu ov er windows on my acer netbook then I tried to install linux mint but It just wouldn't start installing then I turned it off turned it ...
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Different Grub files to edit
I've been looking around to solve a black screen problem and found some pages with a very similar solution but each one using different grub files to edit.
For instance I've found examples using grub ...
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Dualboot Ubuntu 11.10 with Windows 7 No Menu despite GRUB install
I had initially Windows 7 Home Premium installed on my Lenovo Ideapad Z570 . I tried my luck with installing ubuntu 12.04 , but had less luck with detecting the installed ubuntu, and also 12.04 did ...
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How to boot live iso images?
I found that it can be done with loopback as follows
menuentry "Lucid ISO" {
loopback loop (hd0,1)/boot/iso/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper ...
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Error 1962 no opertating system found after installing 12.04 (Lenevo ThinkCentre)
I just installed a fresh copy of 12.04 on a new Lenevo ThinkCentere from a USB drive, and when I restart after installation, the boot sequence doesn't find the OS. Instead I get the a 'no operating ...
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Install of GRUB boot loader to hard disk fails
I am installing Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS on an IBM 3650 M2 with a hardware raid5 with three partitions:
sda1 /boot - 1 GB, ext3
sda2 lvm - 1 TB, ext4
sda3 swap - 24GB
During the GRUB installation, I ...
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Windows 7 does not boot correctly on a triple boot system with Windows 8, Windows 7 and Ubuntu
Currently on my laptop I have Win7, Win8, and Ubuntu 12.04. I am having a problem booting Win7
When I boot the computer the first screen I get is the GRUB boot manager screen which has menu entries ...
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How can I install grub customizer without using any command?
I want to install grub customizer but unable to install it from command line.
Is there any setup file of this tool like a setup of any software in Windows, so I can install it from GUI
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Windows XP - Ubuntu 12.04 Dual Boot Problem
boot repair output
installed 12.04 alongside XP, but no grub selection at boot, defaults to Ubuntu only. I've tried reinstalling several times. I can boot to XP by using boot repair and then can boot ...
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What are the entries in the Grub menu?
On booting my computer, I see multiple entries in my GRUB menu such as memtest, various Ubuntu versions and a corresponding recovery option. What does memtest mean and why are there a lot of Ubuntu ...
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Boot from USB w/ Grub2… computer is useless right now… help!!!
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on my MacBook Air, and after a botched update attempt the OS won't boot & recovery mode won't boot. The only thing I can do is drop into the Grub2 prompt. I have a USB ...
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Installed Ubuntu 12.04 and no Menu on boot!
I had installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a separate partition, in ext4 format in my comp, which initially had only Windows 7. I had done the installation from a Live USB, which gave me the option Install on ...
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Ubuntu in USB.. Boot from fixed HDD?
I am having Ubuntu 12.04 minimal installed on my USB pen-drive; which I use on several systems as portable OS.
I was thinking to edit the boot parameters so that before the main Ubuntu OS is loaded, ...
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How do I recover from a “error: unknown file system grub” boot error?
I have dual boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.4. Recently I have installed Ubuntu 12.4 over 10.4. Now when I start my computer it shows following massage
error: unknown file system
grub ...
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Server 12.04 boots to Grub CLI
Yesterday, I rebooted the server and it booted up to grub. Screen says 'Minimal BASH-like .... etc'. I've tried booting to the Server rescue mode from the install disk and tried reinstalling grub. ...
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Harddisk found by kernel is not found by grub2
Installing Ubuntu 12.04 from USB-stick to the second disk (/dev/sdb) was running fine until reboot. Grub stops with a "no such device" message and a rescue prompt:
grub rescue> ls
(hd0) (hd0,msdos1)
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Blank screen when booting Ubuntu 11.10
This is a common problem I know. I know because I have been trying to resolve it for 2 days having trawled through many other threads and help to fix it without success.
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 ...
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USB w/ Ubuntu 12.04 boot doesn't show up in Grub. Help?
I used the Startup Disk Maker (I think that's what it's called... I'm on my iMac so I can't really check) to make a USB Boot drive w/ Ubuntu 12.04 on it. The OS installed just fine, but something went ...
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Boot-repair failing on 12.04 dual boot
After reinstalling 12.04 on my machine alongside Windows 7 I got the grub rescue prompt. Following from other posts on here I installed and ran boot repair. However it seems to be running into some ...
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After I select Windows 7 it just return to the Grub screen
When I choose Windows 7 in the Grub screen, the screen flashes and then returns to the Grub screen, like nothing happened.
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grub for 10.04 with more than 26 drives
Is there any patch for this for 10.04? I found a bug report for natty but not for lucid.
I can work around it by rebooting until the boot drive is in the first 26 drives, and everything works ...
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Changes in grub.cfg are ignored
I'm trying to change the default OS in grub, but when I do
sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg and change it to option 3 instead of 0 and run update-grub, nothing changes. The default selected OS is ...
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GNU GRUB version 1.99-21ubuntu3, DOES NOT WORK!
I'm new to Ubuntu, I installed it but when I try to start it, tells me that I need to run commands from bash-like and they can be shown by tab, when I press tab shows me the commands but then I type ...
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How can I fix a very broken Ubuntu installation without losing data?
Okay guys, I was installing a program (I do not remember the name). When I did sudo apt-get update I was given missing dependencies. It told me to sudo apt-get install -f which deleted just about ...
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Grub2 won't show any graphical menu
I recently installed Ubuntu on my system, and since my previous grub2 installation was messy, I decided to reinstall grub2 in this ubuntu partition.
Anyway it didn't totally work : grub-install ...
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Are there known (slow boot) issues with Dell XPS17 (L702x) and Grub?
I just received my Dell XPS17 and installed it as follows:
Partition 1: 100GB NTFS Windows 7
Partition 2: 16GB Swap
Partition 3: 100GB EXT4 Linux /
Partition 4: 536GB LUKS + NTFS Data
all four are ...
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ERROR: drm:intel_dsm_platform_mux_info“ ERROR” MUX-INFO call failed [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
drm:intel_dsm_platform_mux_info ERROR MUX INFO call failed
First, good afternoon everyone, I found this error (drm: intel_dsm_platform_mux_info "ERROR" MUX-INFO call ...
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Installing GRUB boot Loader freezes when Running “grub-install dummy”
When installing Ubuntu 12.04 server from a disc, my system freezes up after the installation comes to Installing GRUB boot loader, with a 50% completion bar and the command
"Running "grub-install ...
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recovering linux boot loader after reinstalling windows
i have a notebook in which i installed windows, and then linux on another partition.
Today, i had to reinstall windows and now i don't have access to the boot menu when the computer boots.
Now i can't ...
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Dual boot ubuntu 12.04 and Mageia
I am very new to linux.
I currently am using ubuntu 12.04. Last month decided to leave windows behind and be a full time linux user.
I would like to set up a dual boot system with ubuntu and Mageia. ...
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How can I add an entry for Ubuntu to the Windows 7 boot menu?
I have the following setup:
first partition is windows 7 partition
second partition - ubuntu 12.04 partition
while installing ubuntu I installed grub2 bootloader to ubuntu partition
mbr contains ...
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change boot loader order [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the grub boot order?
I use windows as primary system. Last week, I installed newest Ubuntu, and I always accidentally boot in to Ubuntu when I want to ...
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speed up boot time
please help....
in ubuntu "example" folder it show me that ubuntu is ready to work in just 7 second
how can my ubuntu boot as fast as that video? I tried googling found all around the forum and blog ...
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Cannot boot after BIOS / UEFI reset to defaults
I have a ThinkPad X130e. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS amd64 on it. All worked fine until yesterday. While diagnosing another issue I reset the BIOS / UEFI to defaults. Afterwards Ubuntu did not boot ...
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Windows 7missing from boot menu after running Boot Repair
I have a dual boot Windows 7 / Ubuntu 11.10 machine.
I recently upgraded to 12.04 but something went wrong with the installation, and upon reboot I got an error message and the grup rescue prompt.
I ...
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Missing Windows 7 when i installed ubuntu 12.4
i am newbie to this i installed Ubuntu using separate drive and i choose windows 7 loader as a boot device loader and after the installation i can only choose Ubuntu no windows 7 os so please help me ...
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How to enable hiding grub menu on a dual-boot system?
With GRUB 2, you seem to be able to hide the startup menu (unless someone presses a certain button). But unfortunately grub disables this for multi-OS systems, I've looked up a few other pages.
But ...
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New video card breaks GRUB auto boot to GUI
I recently swapped out an old ATI video card for a newer Nvidia card. The card seems to be working just fine and I can get a GUI with some effort.
However, the new video card seems to have broke ...
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12.04 Server does not honor GRUB_GFXMODE in /etc/default/grub?
I'm having an issue with Ubuntu server not showing the correct graphics on the terminal, similar to the issue here. The text is all garbled after grub.
Unfortunately, the solution to that question ...
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How can I create a bootable live-USB-disc with the persistent file system on a regular partition?
With Startup Disk Creator one is able to put the live-CD onto a USB-device. Changes can be made persistent but are stored in a file that is limited to a few GB in size. Said persistent file ...
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Old laptop freezes with 12.04, which kernel parameter could fix it?
I recovered an old laptop (HP compaq nx5000). It worked with Ubuntu Server 8.04 very good a lot years ago. I'm trying install Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 & 10.04, but the laptop freezes on the first 15 ...
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Grub loader not appearing on boot when dual booting with Windows 7
I've just dual booted Windows 7 and Ubuntu, but whenever I boot my computer the grub loader asking me which OS I want to boot into doesn't appear and I get launched straight into Windows. I installed ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 not showing in boot selection after installing from Wubi in Windows 7
I know there are already several instances of this problem but I just don't find a similar issue as mine so pardon for being redundant.I am new to Ubuntu but I very much like to understand the whole ...
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Boot screen either flickers or hangs on purple screen
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Whenever I boot, the screen either flickers, and shifted to the right, or it hangs on a solid, nonblinking purple screen. I cannot get GRUB2 to show up whatever I do. When I hold shift ...
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How to change the default selection in GRUB2? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I set Windows to boot as the default in the boot loader?
I have installed first Windows 7, then I installed Ubuntu 11.10.
Now the boot loader is GRUB and is ...
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Jolicloud 1.2 + ubuntu 11.10 grub configuration
Usually I can cope with most problems I am confronted with - especially when it is about tech stuff.
Somehow though I cannot find out how to add a grub entry for Ubuntu 11.10 in Jolicloud 1.2. Could ...
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laptop doesn't boot, stops at GRUB screen [closed]
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I can't boot into a usable system anymore. What should I do?
I installed Ubuntu on a laptop's hard drive along with Microsoft Vista. It was working perfectly, but a ...
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Partition not showing in dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc (grub2) menu
I am trying to install grub boot loader on a partition /dev/sda3 (ext3 formatted), but it is not showing as an option when I run dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc.
My details are:
I have a dual boot system ...
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Booting from cd, how update grub2 to reflect changed uuid?
I changed disks around now I get a message from grub (grub2) saying disk w/ uuid=XXXX does not exist.
I've booted from a usb flash drive now, but can't figure out how to run the grub
update so that ...
