Questions tagged [boot-partition]
Questions about boot-partitions (/boot) in Ubuntu system. Ubuntu may have /boot directory under the system root partition/directory or it could have a different partition of its own.
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Installing Ubuntu from a partition on internal drive
I am about to install Ubuntu on my new laptop, but I don't have access to a USB drive of any sort and it doesn't have an optical drive. Would it be possible to boot into the Ubuntu installer if I save ...
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Accidentally deleted efi partition
So, I really screwed things up... Long story short, I deleted my windows 8.1 efi partition and now cannot boot into windows. Furthermore, I don't even have an efi partition left to create a linux ...
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Partition recognized as unusable during ubuntu installation
I want to dual boot windows 7 with ubuntu but during installing ubuntu shows the partition i created for ubuntu in windows as unusable.Basically i have 3 partition and one system reserved.
Partition ...
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Boot folder is almost full, how to give it more space? [duplicate]
My boot folder or whatever it is dev/sda1/boot only has about 300mb of memory and it's about full. I'm not sure why it has so little memory. I have a toshiba laptop and removed the windows and ...
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Ubuntu on 2 different disks
I'm trying to setup a Linux server, I did this configuration:
The purpose of this server is the following: I will install VirtualBox on it in order to run about 10 VMs. This is why I gave 350 GB to /...
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Making partitions visible. Doesn't boot
I can't see partitions I make on my external HDD when I boot, after making changes with GParted and even the installer (from live USB). I think I did the configuration right as I set up the space for ...
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Seagate hard drive not detected by ubuntu
My 500 GB seagate hard drive not detected by [ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-i386].
History:
Earlier I was getting blue screen 4/5 times. I used to restart the computer and do my work as usual. But last ...
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Brief Installation
I am using windows since i got into computers, so i thought Ubuntu would replace my interests in computer programming. Now i think its time to install Ubuntu (only) on my laptop. I have no idea about ...
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Install GRUB(2?) to PBR or MBR? (Intend to chainload Lubuntu from Syslinux/ISOlinux)
I have installed Fatdog64 on a re-purposed laptop, and am trying to install Lubuntu alongside Fatdog in a multiboot setup. However, the Fatdog install is not recognized by the Ubuntu Minimal installer,...
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Resize root Partition that is lvm'ed
I know this question has been asked many times, but I'm having a hard time figuring this out. I have a partition that is lvm'ed and I'm trying to increase it's size. This is on a VM machine, I first ...
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Gave up waiting for root device. Fresh Install Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
I really hope somebody can help me. I have a Lenovo Y580 with a 16GB msata and a 1TB HDD. My goal is to mount the root filesystem on the msata drive (os, apps, and boot) for good load times and mount ...
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Maintaining multiple Linux distros - boot and grub partitions
Here is my GParted view of /dev/sda
The unallocated blocks were once another Ubuntu distribution - I will resize my other partitions to consume them soon. /dev/sda2 holds my Debian installation's ...
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How to install Windows 8 next to Ubuntu?
I've installed Ubuntu and now I want to install Windows 8. I've already done restoring of grub from the terminal, but now I dont know what to do. What should I do to install Windows? Please tell me ...
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Why is /boot so small?
I recently had the warning that /boot was running out of space and I found this solution. Having rebooted and confirmed that I didn't fubar my system, I'm looking at why it happened in the first place?...
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Canonical Partners update problem
I enabled canonical partners in software&updates and when it updated it saved everything into /boot partition which has only ~200MB and I can't see the partition now but remember making it when ...
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Remove kernel images [duplicate]
I need to free up some space in the /boot partition.
Looking in another [thread][1] I found I should use sudo dpkg --list 'linux-image*' to locate and sudo apt-get remove linux-image-VERSION to ...
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No Such Partitions
I have a Problem I cant access Ubuntu I am New to Ubuntu when I boot my computer I get no such partitions on grub rescue I have not delete any files I accidentally change my partitions.
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Primary VS. Logical Types When Using Manual Partitioning At Ubuntu Installation
I am very new to Ubuntu, and I apologize beforehand if my terminology is incorrect. I'm constantly learning new things with all of this! I am working with Ubuntu 14.04 (I believe.) LTS.
I read very ...
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Installed Ubuntu on partition. Can't Boot windows 7 anymore
I am running Windows 7 on my computer since I built it but a few days ago I was inspired to also try out Ubuntu. I managed to get Ubuntu installed a seperate partition and its running fine. The ...
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Difference between "bootable flag" and /boot mount point
In partition table, we can give /boot as mount point. But we can, too, toggle bootable flag. What's difference between those two?
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Help! Need To Recover Partitions
Ok, I will describe each & every step I performed.
First the problem:
A few days ago, my laptop refused to boot. It showed me automatic repair, but the repair was unable to solve the problem. So ...
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Is it possible to install Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7 on the same partition? [duplicate]
I have a dell inspiron 1525, and it has already installed Windows 7. The problem is that the disk can't be partitioned, and I wanted to install ubuntu without uninstalling Windows 7.
Is it possible ...
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Dual booting; Boot drive
I am about to buy a laptop with a 128GB msata (upgrade possible) and a 1TB hdd. My question is if i partition the msata 64/64 (win 8/ubuntu) and split the hdd in half as the storage for the 2 ...
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Boot is full (no prior solutions helped)
I have already seen that this page as well as the ubuntu forum itself has quite some similar questions, but none of the solutions has helped me yet, so I'll try it here as well:
The general problem ...
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Accidentaly formatted boot partition
I accidentally formatted the partition that contained the GRUB loader, so I cannot boot into Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Background to the saga:
I have an iMac with OSX and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed side by ...
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How to Dual Boot Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Windows 8?
I have a HP Pavillion Sleekbook Touchsmart PC with 4GB RAM and 500GB hard disk. I want to dual boot Windows 8(which came preloaded) with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. There are 4 partitions of the hard drive as ...
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edit grub2 to boot other partition
I was running out of space on my primary partition that I had originally set to 30gb (I know, rookie mistake), but it was at the end of the disk so a resize operation would be more data loss prone ...
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Installed Proprietary AMD Graphics Drivers from Settings, Rebooted, and Display Always Turns Off After Decrypting Partitions on Boot Screen
I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 13.10 on my system, fiddled around a bit until I was comfortable with the system, and then went to the Settings window and elected to installed the proprietary AMD ...
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Dual boot Windows 7 + Ubuntu 13.10
I want to dual boot windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10, but when I choose installation type it says:
There is no recognized operating systems on my computer.
So basically my options are either erase disc ...
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Getting an error while mounting machine_config
I am trying to boot my system but, it is giving me an error as
"An error occurred while mounting home/jack/jack-app/machine_config "
Press S skip to mounting or M for manual recovery
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Bash one-liner to delete only old kernels
I've seen lots of threads on how to free space on the /boot partition and that is my objective as well. However, I'm only interested in deleting old kernels and not each one of them but the current ...
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Partitioning for Ubuntu Install
I shrunk my windows 8 partition to create a partition for dual boot of Ubuntu. On the Live usb I opened up GParted to format that unallocated space into ext 4. The problem is I have four primary ...
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Cannot load Windows XP after deleting ubunutu partition
I would first like to point out that I am extremely new to running different operating systems (dual booting etc.) and Linux in general but after having continous issues with XP, trying Linux i ...
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cannot install ubuntu using dual boot......main problem is with partioning the system after entering into ubuntu using flash drive
I have made partition of my hard drive and created a bootable pendrive with Ubuntu 12.04 i386 then rebooted my system using pendrive...........then Ubuntu started but......... I want to install ...
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Unable to boot into Ubuntu 13.04 on Mac
Today I decided to erase OS X and install Ubuntu - unfortunately something went wrong and now I am asking this question on live mode on Ubuntu.
So basically all I did was create a bootable USB stick ...
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What is the safest way to clean up /boot partition?
I have 200 MB assigned for the /boot partition. Whenever I try to update the kernel, I receive an error message that basically states /boot is full.
What can I do to cleanup /boot and remove/backup ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8 dual boot problem where Windows 8 doesn't boot [duplicate]
I will brief about the problem, that how it started.
I purchased a Sony VAIO (SVE15133CNW) laptop on May-2013, with pre-installed Windows 8
After couple of days I installed Ubuntu 13.04 using USB ...
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GRUB RESCUE Limbo... with a twist?
gang. I am in a bit of a pickle.
I can only boot into GRUB RESCUE, even if I attempt to boot from a USB stick. And:
All the commands I have tried in GRUB RESCUE (i.e. "help" "halt" "reboot" "insmod" ...
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Will I able to access ecryptfs -ed folders in another installed Ubuntu?
I have a HDD with Linux Ubuntu partition but with no Linux only Win7. I found a solution how to access and save my ext2 Linux files in Windows. I downloaded DiskInternals Linux reader. It accesses my ...
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Error: partition table requires a separate partition for boot loader code (EFI issue)
The Issue
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, Mac alternate) on my 13" MacBook Pro (model 7,1. Mid-2010). The MacBook Pro is running OSX 10.8.3 and I'm trying to make it dual-bootable (i.e., ...
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Server /boot partition is filling up, Can i apt-get remove images inbetween the current and the latest?
I have a server which is running ubuntu with automatic security updates, /boot is now nearly full (93%). Below is the output of dpkg -l "linux-image*"
ii linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic ...
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make another partition bootable
So I have my / on an SSD that decided to have a bad sector.
I don't know if there a way to copy the data on another partition on an HD that I already have but don't use yet and make it bootable?
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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 of ...
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choose wrong option during install and lost partitions
i tried ubuntu 13.04 beta in my pc with live dvd.
when i wanted to install ubuntu i choose to delete my windows wrongly!.
i see the page that we must to select time location and here i realized my ...
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Deleting A non working version of Ubuntu from Kubuntu
I had Ubuntu 12.10 to replace Easy-Peasy, however some packages broke and the screen would come up blank after booting/BIOS, I installed a dual boot of Ubuntu 12.10 which works and switched to the KDE ...
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Need to expand /boot partition but not sure if I can
So I've been having some trouble installing updates lately because my boot partition has run out of space. I did some research to try and find the best way to expand the partition, but after looking ...
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Accidentally deleted all partitions, how can I restore the operating systems? [duplicate]
Hi guys I installed ubuntu 12.04 (x32) on my system and then side by side I had my windows7 ultimate(x64) running aswell (dual boot).
Last week for some reason I started getting a blue screen crash ...
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I can't log in into my PC, shows grub rescue instead
I have Windows 7, Windows8, and Ubuntu installed. Now, when I turn on my PC, it doesn't start and it shows "Grub rescue".
All that I could find is my Linux partition where I can find the boot files ...
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Ubuntu alongside Windows 8 [duplicate]
I already installed Ubuntu on my Laptop -it is an Hp1000 Notebook PC with windows 8 on it so i installed ubuntu alongside windows 8- I went through all the installation process and it displayed a ...
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Why are FAT partitions not automounted?
I see this happen in Ubuntu 12.04. When I plug an SD card which contains boot and rootfs partitions, only the rootfs gets automounted but not the boot. The only difference between these two is that ...
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