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Grub rescue unknown file system error
I formatted my partition of ubuntu 11.04 and created a new simple volume in windows. But when i rebooted my laptop i got an error :no such partition
I tried nearly all commands suggested but could ...
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How to automatically uninstall older kernels so that “The volume 'boot' has only … MB disk space” does not appear?
I work with Ubuntu 13.04 ("64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image"). On updates/upgrades, I quite often get messages of the type The volume "boot" has only 11 MB disk space. I then uninstall older kernel ...
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How to free up space in /boot when I have only one kernel installed?
Every since I upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04, Ubuntu's been complaining that /boot is full. Now, it's pulling a racket when I'm trying to install packages.
For starters, I've looked around for similar ...
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Missing Operating System after removing Windows though partition (gparted)
My laptop is divided into three drives: C, D and E. Windows was installed in C and Ubuntu was in D. I format C and E by deleting and to NTFS using gparted. But when I restart, it tells me a "missing ...
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Full disk encryption & boot partition from a CD
I would like to try enabling Full Disk Encryption under Ubuntu 13.04.
I would also like to put my boot partition on a burnt CD-R, rather than unencrypted on the HDD. A CD-R has a number of advantages ...
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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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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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“Disk drive for dev/mapper/cryptswap 1 is not ready”
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS i-386
I get the message:
Disk Drive for dev/mapper/cryptswap 1 is not ready or not present
as I am booting Ubuntu.
It will give me the message about 3 times and then finally load ...
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Accidentally Wiped out Hard Disk With Windows 8 while installing ubuntu 13.04, Is there any way to recover? [duplicate]
I brought my Dell Inspiron 15R (5521) laptop yesterday only, I tried to installing ubuntu 13.04 as I go along with installation (I selected first option for selecting disk) I think wiped out entire ...
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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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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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Missing operating system single boot Ubuntu on Mac
I wanted to replace Mac OS X with Ubuntu completely so I put the Ubuntu .img on a USB drive and ran it and chose the
replace osx
option in Ubuntu's install menu. I realize this was a stupid way ...
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problems while installing ubuntu?
I want to install Ubuntu with window 7 as a dual boot PC. I am new to Ubuntu.
After Booting from pendrive when I choose "intall ubuntu on Hard disk" , then installation window comes, I choose "do not ...
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How to write Ubuntu in boot.ini?
I have windows xp.
It has ntldr and boot.ini on
multi 0 disk 0 rdisk 0 partition 1
and load Windows from
multi 0 disk 0 rdisk 0 partition 3
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on second hard drive and I ...
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Installing Ubuntu with preloaded Windows 7
I am trying to install Ubuntu as a Dual Boot with my preloaded Windows 7.
I have a 1 TB hard disk. Primary Partition for windows is limited at 80gb and the rest of the space was unallocated and i ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu after installing it and it looks like it isn't even installed in the disc management
I Installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a 45GB partition, and when it asked me to reboot the computer, the dual boot menu didn't appear, it boot directly Windows 7.
When I checked the disc management, there was ...
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Boot Ubuntu 12.10 from 2nd partition on external hard drive?
My computer's internal hard drive has windows 7 installed on it. I have a 1Tb external hard drive that is split into 2 partitions. The second partition is a logical partition with Ubuntu 12.10 ...
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GRUB Can't Boot - Missing Device Files
I was installing a software library using apt-get and all of a sudden I see it tampering with my /boot directory. I canceled the installation but somehow it deleted all the sda device files from the ...
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Installed 12.04 LTS onto external hard drive, will not boot
I went ahead and figured out how to install onto my external HDD using a CD to do it. The install went fine, and I made 3 partitions. One of 500mb, ext4, /boot. Another of about 200gb (wasn't sure how ...
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Deleted Windows boot partition by mistake
I have Windows 7 installed on my laptop. Today, while trying to manually partition the drive for Linux install, I accidentally formatted the 100 MB System Reserved partition to ext4. Then, I ignored ...
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Reinstalling Leopard on Mac [Running Ubuntu]
So I was stuck with the Prohibitary sign on my Mac...
I gave up trying to reinstall Leopard as I didn't have the recovery disk
I ended up burning Ubuntu to a CD and installing it
I have no problems ...
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expanding the current running operating system partition [duplicate]
I have dual booted my pc from windows to ubuntu 12.10v. I actually had done it by shrinking the 500GB volume to half a part to windows and half to ubuntu. Now I am facing an issue called low disk ...
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Will partition sequence affect dual booting Win7 + Ubuntu 12.10?
Current partition sequence:
PQService (Acer)
System Reserved
Windows 7
Shared Data (NTFS)
Total of 4 Primary partitions
I want to install Ubuntu by deleting the PQService because I don't need it ...
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Attempted downgrade from GRUB2 to GRUB; can't boot into ubuntu anymore
So I just did a clean install of windows 7 ultimate and installed ubuntu 12.10 beside it. I kept the windows bootloader in the mbr at the advice if my tutorial (i used easyBCD to enable an option for ...
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How do I install Windows on a computer with Grub?
I previously installed Ubuntu and I wanted to install windows vista via the repair disc included with the laptop. Booted up the computer with the disc in, nothing. I already set the boot order, so ...
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ubuntu 12.10 boots into busybox, gparted unsuccessful
a few days ago my dual booted win7/ubuntu 12.10 machine booted into busybox. I googled around and determined the problem was due either to a partion problem, or a bad HD.
I found this answer that ...
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Dualboot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on UEFI Unable to Boot to Ubuntu
Here is the layout of my disk:
/dev/sda1 (EFI partition)
/dev/sda2 (Recovery partition)
/dev/sda3
/dev/sda4 (Windows 7 partition -- boot)
/dev/sda5 (/boot)
/dev/sda6 (swap)
/dev/sda7 (/)
I have ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 install alongside Windows 8
I am at breaking point with this, spent almost 9 hours yesterday following various guides and procedures of getting 12.10 to install alongside windows 8
I have created a partition in Windows of 40gb ...
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Want to re-instate windows as primary OS [duplicate]
I want to move ubuntu off an old drive so I repartitioned it and made windows one partition (I was dual-booting). The problem I have is that I have no idea how to boot into windows after ubuntu had ...
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Can I install ubuntu to a partition on my portable hard drive?
Ok I've got a live USB which I can load the ubuntu 12.10 installer from so that's no problem. I am very cautious about losing files and I don't have much space on my computer anyway so I am going to ...
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Replace Windows MBR with Ubuntu MBR(?) [duplicate]
I read that the MBR that "comes with windows" will not boot from logical partitions,
and I read that other MBRs may read from a logical partition.
Here it is: "need to make sure that the MBR code ...
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Ubuntu no longer boots after using GParted via live CD
I've installed Ubuntu 12 correctly; but when I tried use the live CD (for GParted); after restarting Ubuntu will not boot without the CD. It shows the following message :
unable to find a medium ...
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Boot error - [22,874755] Ext4-fs (sda2): Unrecognized mount option “x-gvfs-name=Ubuntu” or missing value
I receive the above error message, followed by:
Root filesystem check failed. A maintenance shell will now be started.
Root@xxxx:~#
How do I fix this? I have Ubuntu 12.10.
I had previously ...
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How do I set Ubuntu to my default boot?
I have Windows 7 and 8 installed on my laptop, I just installed Ubuntu.
It normally boots up in Windows 8, how do I change that?
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Can I force grub2-update NOT to use uuid?
I am experiencing install hell trying to add an installation of Ubuntu 12.10 and Scientific Linux 6.3 to an old machine (BIOS not EFI) with Debian Squeeze and Linux Mint 10. The installs seem to go OK ...
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Removing 12.04 from Win 7 on a Dell
I know there are a lot of posts on this, but I have some specific issues I don't see answered.
I have a machine that has ~600Gb drive, with 5 partitions, that started as a Win7 Dell, and now is a ...
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Swap bug 100% Increase with two apps running?
Newly installed operating system, nothing download except updates.
Firefox currently downloading one file. SWAP at 0%
Then I open up Ubuntu software center.. Swap starts rising slowly and slowly . ...
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dual boot woes and how to change the default order [closed]
I'm afraid I was assuming that Ubuntu (12.10) would be slightly easier to use and to tweak a little, however this is apparently not the case.
I have a 750 GB hard disk in my Asus laptop. 600 GB for ...
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Messed up partitions after 11.04 upgrade
I wanted to upgrade my old 10.10 to 12.04 using alternate CD, and had to upgrade to 11.04 first. Unfortunately I ran into the following error after upgrading and rebooting to ubuntu :
the disk ...
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Grub Error 15. Can't boot
I made a partition with Windows disk management (40GB) for the purpose of installing Ubuntu. It worked fine and I saw it next to the C drive so I turned of the computer and grabbed my USB with Ubuntu ...
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Did EFI Partition ruin my hard drive?
I can't access my HDD (Drive D).
After having trouble installing Ubuntu on my new EFI system, I couldn't boot either of the OS on my SSD (Drive C). I fixed that problem by running boot-repair, ...
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PC is not detecting any boot drive. How to fix this?
I used gparted to shrink the swap space and add it to the drive that had Ubuntu installed in it from Live boot. After doing so, I restarted the computer and then found a black screen saying just this:
...
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Wubi created a usb partition on my disk
Wubi has managed to make the operating systems, including Ubuntu installation, recognize the partition as an USB drive. How can I mend them back together? This issue is causing the boot system to boot ...
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Problems Booting Windows 8 with Grub 2 HELP ASAP
please help. I'm new to linux, decided to try out ubuntu. created a new partition, and replaced windows 8 boot manager with grub 2 by installing grub on the windows 8 partition
now windows doesn't ...
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The /boot partition in my server is full, how can I re-size it without re-installing the whole system?
I'm having some troubles because the partition in which /boot is allocated in my server is full, so I can install neither new linux images nor upgrades.
Here is the server's file system usage ...
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Unable to boot windows 8 after ubuntu 12.04 installation
I just got my new notebook with windows 8 pre installed. After installing ubuntu 12.04 when I try to boot windows 8 it says "Automated Recovery in Progress" which fails afterwards and shuts down the ...
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My install did not install the grub loader and I also can not get to windows 7 either
I did a new install on Ubuntu 12.04 and when it was finishing it did not install the grub loader and this installation was over a previous installation where the partition should have been formatted. ...
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Still asking whether I want to boot into Ubuntu although there is no Ubuntu partition any more
My Ubuntu partition is gone but when I boot up, Grub still asks if I want to boot into Windows 7 or Ubuntu. To put it simply how do I get it to stop asking for Ubuntu and only have 7.
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Can't boot in 12.04 after formatting the entire drive
I installed ubuntu 12.04 by formatting the drive that had windows 7. The installation went fine but after I rebooted It asks me for a windows 7 disk repair disk and doesn't even look to recognize any ...
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Deleting recovery partition on dual boot machine and resizing window 7 partition
I am using a dual boot Ubuntu/win7 machine. My win 7recovery partition is around 20GB, since I have created recovery disks I am assuming I no longer need it my windows partition is only small I was ...
