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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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 ...
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Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 dual boot, GRUB menu not showing
I have Windows 7 Home premium 64bit installed on my laptop, Now I have installed Ubuntu Desktop 13.04 from bootable flash but Ubuntu GRUB menu not showing.
When I start my PC, after normal boot, ...
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Blackscreen after boot ubuntu 12.10
I have a dual boot (w7, ubuntu 12.10 ) laptop. Everything was OK since some weeks. Now I am unable to boot my ubuntu 99 times of a hundred.
The process start with the bios settings and all, then grub ...
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Dual Boot - Grub2 not detecting Ubuntu Server (10.4, 64 bit) after installing Ubuntu Desktop (12.04)
Requirement
I have a computer which runs Ubuntu 10.4.3 (64 bit server) installed over LVM and /boot filesystem and I wanted it to dual boot to Ubuntu 12.04 (desktop, 32 bit).
Completed Successfully: ...
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Will windows 8 work after i install Ubuntu 12.04?
I had searched and found many GRUB related problem after installing windows 8 over ubuntu or ubuntu over windows 8.So i fear to install ubuntu 12.04.
So What is the measures i need to take while ...
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“error: no such partition, grub rescue>” How do I fix this? [duplicate]
I had a dual boot with windows 7 and ubuntu 12, and I deleted the ubuntu partitions, along with GRUB 2. Now i get this error and can't boot to windows.
I have a bootable usb with ubuntu.
Will simply ...
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transferring and reading hard drives
I had a server meltdown (thermal). Removed the primary and secondary (mirror image) drives and tried to insall them on another working computer with a hard drive. Adding even one of the drives to the ...
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how to break the GRUB password?
I am using Ubuntu 12.10. We all know that from the Restore option in the GRUB menu we can reset our lost password. We can also put password for GRUB to prevent other users ,to reset the password.
My ...
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Monitor sleeps during boot
After I select ubuntu from GRUB while booting, sometimes the monitor will go to sleep.
I have tried editing boot commands (pressing 'e' while in GRUB), but to no avail. Sometimes it will boot to ...
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13.04 - Making Windows Boot Loader the default instead of Grub 2
So basically before Ubuntu 13.04 I was running 12.10. I had Windows Boot Loader the default. If I chose to boot to Ubuntu, it would go into grub, but grub was set to 0 seconds so it would basically ...
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Ubuntu not booting after upgrade failed [from quantal to raring]
I am having a big time getting my laptop to boot again. I have launch the upgrade process yesterday before going to sleep and today upon waking up, I saw that the upgrade somehow failed to complete ...
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Grub rescue after removing Ubuntu?
I dual booted ubuntu 12.04 LTS with Windows 8, but I wanted to get rid of ubuntu. So I got EasyBCD (on windows 8) and removed Ubuntu following a tutorial on youtube, then I got rid of the Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 won't boot after grub
I ran into a problem with Ubuntu 13.04.
I installed it without any problems. When I reboot my machine it hangs on a black screen with a blinking cursor after grub.
I tried recovery mode as well ...
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Start ubuntu13.04 and then it turns to black screen [duplicate]
I do need help. I just updated 12.10 to 13.04 but the problem occured.
Every time I start my laptop it turns to a black screen. After the grub and the purple screen. And I also hear the voice from ...
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Can't boot into Ubuntu 13.04? GRUB4DOS instead of GRUB2 menu?
I am trying to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 along side each other. I installed 13.04 to a separate partition on the same hard drive as my Win7 install without any difficulties but after I ...
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Bootloader Partition Question [closed]
I have a quick question. I'm trying to install Linux Mint along with Windows 8 on my computer, but I figured my question would be good here since I think the Ubuntu and Mint installers are the same ...
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Grub rescue fails with “Boot Repair” with error “unknown file system” [duplicate]
THE PROBLEM WAS IN FILESYSTEM, THIS IS NOT DUBLICATE TO GRUB RESCUE STANDARD TOPICS.
After laptop system crush (which was caused by hard restart), my ubuntu linux is not booting, it is showing now:
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Kubuntu 13.04 Live Disk/USB not moving beyond GRUB…?
I recently bought an Asus K55N Notebook, and after replacing the HDD with a SSD, installed an OEM Win7 Home Premium copy. I want to install Kubuntu 13.04 in dual boot, but my issue is this;
Upon ...
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how to load ubuntu 12.04 from grub after update on 04/26/13
Computer Details: Toshiba, natively runs Windows7 64-bit. I currently dual-boot Windows 7 / Linux and have a virtual hard drive of Windows 8 (rarely used)
Background: I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 installed but always start only Windows 7
I'm tring to install Ubuntu 13.04 on my PC desktop but when i restart my PC, it always starts Windows 7, without asking me which OS would i like to run. I've got 3 HDD on my PC:
1: 200 GB with ...
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Installing Ubuntu 13.04 after installing Windows 8
I have made a BOOTABLE USB installation of Ubuntu 13.04 using pendrive linux.
I also have Windows 8 on separate partition. After I finished installing Ubuntu 13.04 from the USB, it went straight to ...
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Zombie process during start
My laptop (12.04 and W7) will not start in Ubuntu any more. The login screen (black) appears after Grub.
It says. When I enter my name and password I enter "a terminal" and I can't get any further. ...
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System no longer boots, gave up waiting for root device, (initramfs), /dev/mapper/gnome-root does not exist
After installing an update, my system no longer boots. I have full disk encryption (the one the installer sets up for you) enabled so it usually asks for the key only seconds after booting past GRUB. ...
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Grub and easy bcd
I have installed Windows 7 over Ubuntu 12.04 (on a different partition) and since I have installed Windows 7 as the last step, GRUB did not start and Windows 7 booted automatically.
In order to ...
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Windows 8 does not appear in my grub list
I have been unable to get my windows 8 partition to appear in my grub list. I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 64 bit. My machine is a toshiba satellite s855-s5378 and is a secure boot system. I have secure ...
