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Failed Install on external HDD (bootloader installed at wrong place)
I installed Ubuntu using "Erase and use the entire disk" on my external hard drive.
Now the problem is that the bootloader was installed on my internal hard drive from my PC
instead of installing it ...
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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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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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URGENT Help with GRUB!
Solved for the GRUB issue!
Now just need to try to make the USB drives readable on windows again.
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Install Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows 8 (not preinstalled) without grub [duplicate]
I want to install x64 Ubuntu 12.04.2 on my HP laptop. I don't like grub, so I want to install without it or install grub onto another partition and then add grub to Windows' bootloader (and set grub ...
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Windows missing from GRUB menu
When I turn on the computer, I can see the GRUB and boot into Ubuntu. But I can't boot into Windows because I don't see it in the GRUB.
I have tried both boot-repair and sudo update-grub to no avail. ...
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Windows loader after Grub
I have installed Ubuntu next to Windows7.
When I restart PC, MBR loads windows loader first then if I choose Linux, I have grub loaded.
My problem is that I would like Grub to be loaded first.
Any ...
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Win8 keeps trashing grub2 (12.10 secure remix) [closed]
So I have win8-64 and 12.10 secure remix 64 playing nice together on a new Asus G46vw. I can boot into either after doing a boot-repair/purge. All is wonderful.
...that is until windows - ever so ...
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Cannot start PC without rescatux?
I'm aware that askubuntu is probably not the ideal place to ask this question, but considering that the problem occurred while I was installing ubuntu I'm guessing others may have run into the ...
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Windows 7 and Ubuntu Boot issue
I had the idea to dual boot Win 7 and Ubuntu and what I did was the following:
Made a clean install of win 7 using all of my hard drive, next I used the Ubuntu live cd and gparted to partition my ...
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How to replace GRUB with BURG? Not on MBR
This question is repeating, I know but I can't answer it as I don't have an answer and I cannot comment either to get some insights on this thing.
How to replace GRUB with BURG without overwriting ...
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How to boot to Windows if grub is broken and BIOS won't open?
I recently accidentally deleted my Ubuntu partition. When I rebooted the computer, I got the dreaded grub rescue> prompt. I thought, "simple fix, boot an ubuntu CD and add a new MBR". However, my ...
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Lenovo U410 — Messed up grub/mrb, and can't access bios
I am out of ideas, so I thought I would ask here.
I have a lenovo U410 and it comes with one of those intel hybrid hdd's that has a 32GB ssd in it. I figured I would unraid it and try out ubuntu on ...
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How to restore GRUB after restoring MBR with boot-repair?
I've a problem after upgrading to 12.10, which is when I choose Windows option from boot options, I got "A disk read error occurred" error.
I followed this tutorial to restore MBR, but the problem ...
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PC BIOS does not recognise External HDD as bootable after installing Linux
I have a Seagate FA GoFlex Desk - 2000 external hard disk. I use it with a Dell Dimension C521 desk top. The internal HDD of 160 GB is dedicated to running Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) OS. ...
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XUbuntu 12.04 GRUB recovery after separate Windows 7 install
I have a RAID drive: /dev/mapper/isw_bjeeefeied_Lightspeed with root Linux partition at: /dev/mapper/isw_bjeeefeied_Lightspeed7.
I've installed Windows 7 on the separate partition so it rewritten the ...
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All drivers disabled after reinstallation
I've been running Ubuntu 12.04 for quite a while, but after installing Windows XP onto another partition, the MBR was overwritten, etc etc.
I downgraded 12.04 to 11.10 using a Live CD, but it still ...
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What is the best way to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu?
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 in dual-boot with windows 7 but I am having some problems. I installed GRUB in the MBR (as it is often recommended) and so GRUB was the boot-loader that appeared ...
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Windows 7 won't boot after Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot installation failed
I basically used a LIVEusb I had made of Ubuntu 12.04 to try and dual boot both OS'. but it crashed at the partitioning stage and now Windows 7 won't boot. g Parted shows the same partitions that ...
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Desktop doesn't load after install/restart (dual boot)
I've just finished installing Ubuntu and Windows for dual boot on separate partitions. I installed Windows first because it's pickier about partition style (MBR) and that went fine. I shrank the disk ...
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Installing 12.04's boot loader on the partition boot record
I want to install ubuntu , without it touching my MBR. I plan to install ubuntu 12.04 on a particular ext3 partition and grub on the PBR of that partition.
From this page: ...
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GRUB broken again
Please help, my grub is broken again, and again, I don't know why, maybe latest update, I'm not sure, it starts to annoy me.
Error I get when I boot:
Symbol not found: grub_divmod64_fulll
And it ...
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How to boot into Windows 7 when grub is installed in the Windows partition?
Original title: How can i solve (un)booting windows 7 on the same partition with grub?
I've been researching for 2/3 days about this problem and I have came up empty.
Basically, partition 1 is ...
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GRUB boot into Windows 7 breaks GRUB and makes system unbootable
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 (daily-live iso from 21.04.12) alongside Windows 7 on an HP EliteBook laptop.
The installation went fine, except that it installed grub onto my usb disk (/dev/sdb) ...
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How to replace GRUB with BURG without overwriting MBR? [closed]
I'd like to install BURG but I don't want it to overwrite my MBR. That's because I've got two bootloaders in my system :
Default Windows 7 in MBR
Grub in /dev/sda2
With the first power button, it ...
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How to install grub on the PBR instead of MBR?
I own a Mac and I want to install a triple boot. The problem is that I need to keep my windows bootloader to make sure that it works well with Mac OS. But I want Ubuntu too and if I install ubuntu, it ...
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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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GRUB 2 Error : No such disk
I have gone through many pains to boot through my windows 7 partition.
I had windows 7, then one fine day I installed Ubuntu and again formatted the partition where Ubuntu was installed only to find ...
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GRUB Drops to Rescue Shell - Fix MBR and Windows Bootloader
I shall just give a bit of background information. I updated a broken Ubuntu installation to Oneiric from the live CD a while ago, and everything appeared to be working fine. Because I don't use the ...
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Unable to boot: Missing Operating system
i had installed Ubuntu 11.10 along with the another Ubuntu 11.10 which already installed in my netbook. Later I formatted the partition I newly installed. Next time when I boot it went to Grub Rescue ...
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How to fix my MBR? While installing random Ubuntu my MBR is not getting overwritten anymore
I boot with liveUSB. But how do i fix now my MBR, so that i can re-install Ubuntu? (after installing ubuntu i get mostly this blinking cursor and black screen)
root@ubuntu:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: ...
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Unable to install GRUB
Unfortunately (as you can see) I cannot install grub. I have tried /dev/sda as well.
Here is my partitioning schema:
Troubleshooting + problems:
Installed Windows 8 to logical partition ...
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Corrupted partition when it was updated to 11.04 including grub? [closed]
This problem seems centered around me, it has happened twice!
Description of the Problem
My Linux partition (ext4) got corrupted. I believe a bad superblock ...
So when I boot my computer I get no ...
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How to recover Ubuntu installed with Wubi with corrupted GRUB
I have ubuntu installed inside Windows 7 using Wubi.
Yesterday, I tried installing Ubuntu using GRUB but it seem that GRUB was corrupted. To recover, I fixed the MBR using the Windows 7 CD.
Now ...
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Cannot install burg: error during installation
I tried to install burg and I got an error.
I've used the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install
sudo apt-get install burg ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 install did not work?
I have a laptop that has Windows 7 64-bit as the main OS. I originally installed Ubuntu 10.10 using Wubi so I could have Windows and Linux to choose from at boot up. All worked great up until ...
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Upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 lost MBR
I think I've lost my MBR upgrading from ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10.
During the upgrade it gave me a message saying which partitions did I want the grub details to go on, saying if I was unsure to select ...
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Grub installation and Dell recovery partition
I'd like to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a brand new Dell vostro v130.
Dell notebooks usually come with a recovery partition, which allows you to restore the original Windows configuration of the notebook.
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What do I select for “GRUB install devices” after an update?
After running Update Manager, a debconf window (titled "Configuring grub-pc"), popped up, requiring me to select the appropriateGRUB install devices for my system. I've made no changes to grub or ...
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I cannot change the grub Default item from OS-1, but I can from OS-2 (dual-boot 10.04 on both)
My 10.04 system (OS-1) got into a tangle the other day, so I installed a second, dual-boot 10.04 (OS-2), so that I could trouble-shoot the hung system...
In case it is relevant to my question, I'll ...
