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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Ubuntu 13.04 - Black screen with unresponsive cursor
Few days ago I installed ubuntu 13.04 on a new machine without big issues.
Today, after the boot, I have this situation:
grub correctly loaded and normal boot
normal purple screen with red dots
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One O/S, 2 Machines
quick question, Is it possible to share my Installation on my SSD between my main PC, and my laptop for when i go away, that way everything I need is still there, and dont have to worry about syncing ...
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Pb boot after update 12.04.1 to 12.04.2 : initctl: Event failed
Anyone can help me ?
I've a Ubuntu Server 12.04 and after an update from 12.04.1 to 12.04.2, i cannot boot normally. I must boot on recovery mode and then choose the resume option.
In the boot.log, ...
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second Operating system on ssd doesnt seem on grub menu
I have ssd and a hdd
I installed ubuntu on hdd , after this fedora on ssd however on grub menu only ubuntu appears. I am uploading the text file of boot info script please help .
Boot Info Script ...
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Installed Ubuntu 13.04 on Windows 7 but it loads straight into Ubuntu
As you can already tell, I am a Ubuntu newbie...trying to make the big switch from Windows to Linux. I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a partition aside from Windows. I was waiting for a prompt to ask me ...
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What can I do to ensure that Windows is recognized by os-probe/GRUB?
When I tried to install Ubuntu on a dedicated partition - which I would far prefer to Wubi - update-grub didn't recognize Windows. Eventually I got my hard drive reset from my school's IT guy. After ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 crashes at boot and can't access windows 7 boot
Yesterday I installed ubuntu 13.04 on my pc. Previously there was two windows 7 installations. One on a HDD and another an SSD. I brought the pc from a friend and it came with one 2TB HDD. I removed ...
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No operating system will boot after attempting to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows 8 on a Lenovo T530
I've had to retry this a million times, and it's doing my head in. Please help me.
I resized my partitions from within Windows 8, and disabled everything I was supposed to, I installed 13.04 from a ...
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updating ubuntu while dual booting win8
ive had great help from u guys and you guys are doing a gr8 job ..thanks for that
i had a small doubt ,
i have a laptop that comes with win8 pre installed ,so the UEFI crap is there ... :(
i have ...
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ASUS UX31A keeps looping ASUS Preload Recovery and won't boot Win7 after installing ubuntu
The title pretty much says everything. It looks like I have the same problem as Unable to boot Windows after installing Ubuntu 12.04 - error: invalid efi file path
but I already cycled that about 20 ...
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black screen with blinking cursor
Suddenly my 12.10 desktop went into a black screen. I couldnt do anything so I power cycled. Now I get it on boot. I can't do anything. Shift doesn't work to get into grub. Ctrl, alt f1 doesn't work ...
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No such parition, grub rescue
I have a sony viao laptop with windows 7. I have no access to Windows CD/DVD now. I dual booted with Ubuntu 13.04 and everything was working fine. I then copied all my data from windows C drive to ...
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How can I make Ubuntu the default boot option on a newer laptop (UEFI)?
I have a HP Spectre XT that I installed Ubuntu on. I have turned "Secure Boot" off and turned on "Legacy Support" in the settings. This laptop has UEFI and it always boots to Windows 8 rather than the ...
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Dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10
I can't boot into Windows 7 from GRUB, or can't boot into Linux from Windows 7
I have 2 HDD, on 1 I have Windows 7 and on other I have Linux. Both HDD are working properly.
Help me to correct dual ...
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“SFS detected” - Windows Dynamic Disk help
After install of ubuntu I got a problem. I can't go to the OS selecter (Think it's called GRUB2). I tried the Boot-repair tool but got following message:
'SFS detected. You may want to retry ...
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Ubuntu Installation fails because of Grub2
Every time I try to install, every thing goes normal till GRUB 2 comes. The dialog box shows that GRUB 2 is not available so installation cant continue. I am using windows 8 and want to install Ubuntu ...
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GRUB does not listlen to input devices (keyboard)
I've got Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7 installed on my laptop. I've never had any problems with anything related GRUB or the OSs (at least not something strange that I cannot fix).
Well, GRUB went ...
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Install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows 8 [duplicate]
I want Windows 8 64bit (system-builders) and Ubuntu Linux 13.04 on different partitions on the same drive in my new self-built machine. I've previously been using only Ubuntu 12.04LTS and no once my ...
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How do I install Ubuntu 13 without risking damage to windows 8? [duplicate]
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13 on my laptop, which came with Windows 8. It also came with an empty partition, along with the three that windows 8 uses. I want to install Ubuntu on that partition. ...
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Getting “error: unknown filesystem grubrescue” after making dynamic partition [duplicate]
I have both ubuntu 13.04 and windows 7 on my laptop. While installing ubuntu by making partition it made E drive unallocated. But when i tried it to make simple volume i ended up in making all ...
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Trying to upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04, logo - black screen
I recently attempted to upgrade from Ubuntu 12 to Ubuntu 13.04.
Upon restart, I get a quick flash of the Ubuntu logo, and then the screen goes black. It stays that way until I restart the device.
I ...
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Updating Ubuntu to the latest
I've been using Ubuntu for quite some time now and I absolutely love it.
I recently purchased a laptop (Dell Inspiron 15r 5521) which is supported by Ubuntu (I checked in the certified hardware list). ...
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Need to rescue ubuntu without mess
I usually play with OS and always use dual boot (win,ubuntu). So the grub problem is more obvious, At my first usage of Ubuntu I found it very difficult to restore grub. Live CD method always ...
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What ever I do, I cant get rid of GNU GRUB [closed]
Im dual-booting Windows XP and Zorin OS 6. So I want to get rid of GNU Grub so that I can get rid of Zorin. I tried doing fix mbr and fixboot using the Recovery Console in the Windows Disk, it said ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu after hard reset. (GRUB issues) [duplicate]
I have a laptop with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 installed. Windows crashed, and I have to get a repair disk for it, so in the meantime, I'm using Ubuntu, however when I went to boot Ubuntu I got ...
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Can I create a really Universal USB Drive? [closed]
I have looked and looked over this forum and multiple other forums about the correct way to do this and I have not found a solid answer yet. I am trying to create an all in one bootable tech USB ...
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Won't load Windows 8 from Grub 2.0(Ubuntu 13.04)
Just installed Dual-Boot Ubuntu 13.04 on my self-built Windows 8 Pro PC, and after the installation I restarted, and once I was prompted with Grub 2.0 I tried to boot off of windows 8, and a few ...
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Can't boot to Ubuntu 13.04 after installing
I know that there is lots of people with the exact same problem, but I can't get an answer from another place (I've really been trying for hours), so here is my problem.
I got Ubuntu 13.04 on my CD ...
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Ubuntu installation and startup problem [duplicate]
I am a newbie to Ubuntu. I just installed Ubuntu in my friend's computer and it completed successfully. But when I tried doing the same in my computer, it didn't turn out to be successful. I installed ...
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Wont load Windows 8 Pro from Grub 2.0(Ubuntu 13.04)
Just installed Dual-Boot Ubuntu 13.04 on my self-built Windows 8 Pro PC, and after the installation I restarted, and once I was prompted with Grub 2.0 I tried to boot off of windows 8, and a few ...
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Lenovo Y500 Dual Booting Ubuntu and Windows 8: Stuck on Purple Screen
I'm installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Lenovo y500 with nvidia geforce 750M using uefi. What I've done so far
Regular install with Ubuntu disc. (through legacy)
Boot repair (recommended) (through ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 boots oddly?
By default, Ubuntu 13.04 is supposed to boot graphically, correct? My Ubuntu install boots up half graphical and half verbosely.
Also, I have to reboot twice in order to boot, meaning I press the ...
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I'm running Chrubuntu on C7. I'm having a couple issues. Help? [closed]
First off, This is my second time installing a ubuntu partition on my c7 chromebook. I re installed it to see if I could bypass the issues this time. NOPE. One issue is an error message at startup, ...
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Unable to boot into Ubuntu (Dual-boot Win 7 and Ubuntu)
I downloaded and installed the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bit just now. I followed this EasyBCD guide to install Ubuntu on my computer as previous attempt to install Ubuntu normally was unsuccessful (GRUB ...
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error: no such partition grub rescue> [duplicate]
Ever since I deleted the partitions after uninstalling Ubuntu 13.04 on my Windows 8 laptop, I have been getting the error message:
error: no such partition
grub rescue>
I have tried many ways to get ...
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Upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04 Problem - Boots into Blank Black Screen
After upgrade my desktop system (asrock z77, intel i5, geforce gtx 650, 16 GB ram) can only boot to a black screen. I mean after the GRUB interface (kernel is 3.8.8-19-generic) and purple screen.
I ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 failing to boot
I'm having a problem launching Ubuntu.
So I'm currently dual booting Ubuntu and Windows, and when I launch Ubuntu, the screen goes dead (not black, dead). This problem started recently, for no ...
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Dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu UEFI! Can't load windows 8 anymore
I have a samsung laptop with windows 8 single language pre installed and since it was bugging so much I decided to dual boot with ubuntu following this guide : ...
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/casper/initrd.lz: read error when booting from live USB
When I try to boot 13.04 from a live USB it immediately goes to an error message that says
/casper/initrd.lz: read error @ 21612272
I tried redownloading the iso and putting it on a different ...
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Filesystem check or mount failed
I'm using latest Kubuntu ( kernel 3.8.0.19). For some reason I got this when I restarted my PC
Filesystem check or mount failed. A maintenance shell will now be
started. CONTROL - D will ...
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I have a special line in my Grub of Ubuntu 11.10 — Will it survive to 12 if I “do-version-upgrade?”
A problem with computers with Intel Sandy Bridge and Intel Celeron causes them to display only a black screen and a mouse cursor if RC6 is enabled (which it has been for all versions after 11.10). In ...
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Loading Grub2 from a different location?
Before I explain my issue, let me start by saying that I am relatively new with Ubuntu so please be patient with me !
I had a Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot system, and everything was running ...
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How can we restore If all kernel has removed by mistaken it has RAID10
how we can restore the server if we removed the all kernels, and I have the RAID 10. in this case I try to recover with live-cd but I am not able to mounting partition because
I have RAID10 ...
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error on probing raid drive
After the new raring upgrade, I'm getting the following on every boot, update-grub, and even dmraid:
ERROR: <raidtype>: seeking device "/dev/dm-4" to <some big number>
where ...
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New Ubuntu 13.04 install does not show up in boot menu for existing bootloader
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a new partition on a laptop that currently has Mint 14 installed. Because I ran into lots of problems when originally installing the boot loader I followed the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 & UEFI mode
On a new Dell XPS 8500, I tried to install a fresh xubuntu 12.04.2 with EFI enabled but it did not work: the 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install in /target/
As specified in ...
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kubuntu grub resue
hey i have recently played a lot with my laptop (LENOVO Z570)
first installed ubuntu and later installed windows8 this removed ubuntu, so again i installed ubuntu and updated grub
after this i lost ...
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Install Ubuntu on a second harddrive without messing with other drives or main Windows 7 bootloader?
Lets just say I have 3 hard drives:
c: 500 gig windows 7 with win7 boot loader
d: 1tb nothing on it (but I want a Linux os on it... Ubuntu, debian, fedora ect)
g: 3tb random stuff
I want Ubuntu and ...
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grub rescue > message on boot time [duplicate]
I have deleted all my partitions at the first for installing Windows 7 and Ubuntu in dual boot mode and Because of lowest knowledge at the time of installing Ubuntu I took the size of /home partition ...
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new to ubuntu and have massive problems getting it to install
So I'm new to ubuntu and I'm having some problems with the install of linux. It woks fine from the CD and seems to install but I get this message when I restart the computer:
GRUB loading ...
