Questions tagged [boot-repair]
Boot-Repair is a tool to fix Windows/Ubuntu problems either after installing Ubuntu or Windows. Use this tag if you used the software in any way.
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Unable to boot after boot repair using live usb
After a kernel update in ubuntu 16.04 system, I restarted and unable to login. It says No bootable disc found. So i repaired the boot using boot-repair. If the live usb stick is connected, ubuntu is ...
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ubuntu 18.04 not booting anymore after installing nvidia
I tried to install nvidia, the installation froze and since I cannot reboot. I have booted from a usb drive and tried boot-repair, it gave me this error report:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/J6xPTj6G8M/
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Ubuntu 20.04 - Boot Problems
I was a Windows user for a long time. But i found Ubuntu 20.04 more good. So, i switched to it ( Dual Boot) . The only problem with Ubuntu is boot problems. I frequently end up stuck on the boot ...
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Will OS-Uninstaller delete my data?
I recently upgraded and currently I have 2 instances of Windows (1 in my HDD and the other in my newly bought SSD). Obviously I want to remove
Windows 10 from my HDD. Will doing that using OS-...
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Boot error: "/dev/sda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY."
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 in VirtualBox, which has been working for 6 months or so. I am now getting problems when trying to boot into Ubuntu. I get an error message as seen in the photo. I've followed ...
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Create Bootable in Mac to use in Ubuntu?
I have a Laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 already installed.
I don't know what happened, but the system is not workin anymore, everytime I start the computer the error message: "Error loading the ...
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Why did my file-system suddenly become corrupted and why can I not repair it?
A few months ago I built a computer to host my Minecraft server on, it ran great for months on end, but a few weeks ago it decided overnight to corrupt my file-system. I woke up to find that the drive ...
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Ubuntu dual boot: First Grub didn't show. Then it showed with a Windows menu. But more problems.. "invalid UEFI"
I am a newbie in the Ubuntu territory. I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my Windows 10 PC for dual boot. I have three SSDs. I installed Ubuntu in one of them. (I followed this instruction: https://www....
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Boot-repair gives ESP partition error
Recently the GRUB boot loader disappeared on my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon. I normally dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu, but now it goes directly to Windows. I attempted to fix it by restarting into a ...
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Windows 10 doesn't start after setting up dual boot with Ubuntu 20.04
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 alongside Windows 10; after restarting, however, I was met with a bluescreen and error code 0xc0000001 when trying to boot into Windows. At times I have also gotten the error ...
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Dual Boot - Boot Repair - Problems with Legacy vs UEFI
i am normally running Win7 Pro as the only OS on my Thinkpad T420s. Yesterday, i wanted to install ubuntu. I downloaded the ISO and made a bootable USB stick - on a Macbook via Balena Etcher.
After ...
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Partition and Boot problem Ubuntu 20.04 (GRUB 2.04)
My computer boots with GNU GRUB Version 2.04 right after I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (with LVM and full encryption). I arrive directly to GRUB console (Minimal BASH-like line editing is ...
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Unable to load Windows 8 after installing Ubuntu 20.04
Help me to get back my Windows 8. Below is my Boot-Info report.
boot-repair-4ppa125 [20201028_1739]
============================== Boot Info Summary =======...
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20.04/Windows 10 dual boot: Ubuntu not booting after loading Windows 10 for the first time (Initramfs loading failed)
I did some Googling. I saw some mention of windows not having access to ext4 (via Ext2File or such) AFAIK I have no such apps installed. Not sure where to begin. I currently can't even boot Ubuntu. ...
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Deleted Windows 10 MBR Trying to Fix Ubuntu Boot
I have a dual-boot Win10/Ubuntu 16 system. After Windows updated itself one time, I lost the ability to boot into Ubuntu. Trying to fix that with boot-repair, I mistakenly deleted the Windows 10 MBR ...
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Can't access Ubuntu(grub minimal bash error) after Windows repartitioning, Tried lot of Methods ..Please Help me out?
I had created a dual boot Windows+ Ubuntu system.
On startup option to select Ubuntu or windows would show up and I could select either of them and use my lap happily..I had data of 300 gb in Ubuntu ...
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Upgrade 19 to 20 error - Tilting black screen with top-left cursor before login
PC: Lenovo X201 - 2010
Intel Core i5 vPro
BIOS: 1.16 2010
Embedded controller version - 1.09
GNU GRUB - 2.04
Linux 4.15.0-119
Description:
I have recently tried to upgrade from Ubuntu 19.04 to 20.04 ...
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Lost ZFS bpool on 20.04 production system still running
I mirrored the ZFS rpool and the other drives are still working and the system is up. But bpool was only on one drive and that drive has died. I removed one of the other drives from the rpool mirror ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 not booting after label change
I changed the label of ubuntu partition in windows 10 and now it is not booting up.
[![here is the image of boot screen][1]][1]
[1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/sHWCJ.jpg
Please help !!
I see these ...
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Black screen instead of grub and then login screen GUI
I have an strange behaviour, i boot my pc, and instead of grub menu, i got a black screeen. I suppose it works well because i dont change the default option, then after 10 seconds, it boots ubuntu in ...
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Can't boot into Ubuntu
I have dual booted Ubuntu 20.04 alongside Windows 10 this morning. Everything has been fine since installation, but now after restart I can't boot into Ubuntu and this is the error message I see:
I ...
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How can I fix “can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found” on USB boot when installing Ubuntu 20.04?
When I try to install Ubuntu 20.04 on my Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop, I get can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found error when GRUB tries to load "Install Ubuntu 20.04".
I have seen similar kind ...
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error: incompatible license. Entering rescue mode
This is Ubuntu 20.04 in a VMware VM. Everything was fine the last time I used it, and I did a clean shutdown as far as I can remember, but now I get this message on boot:
This isn't a dual-boot ...
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Device lookup failed cryptswap1. Can't boot after upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04
After i upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 yo Ubuntu 18.04 i'm getting an error:
After running the command suggested below the error message this appears
It says: "Failed to activate with key file '/...
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How can I change grub bootloader while installing Ubuntu?
I have installed Debian 10 on my device which is loaded by grub boot loader, now I want to install Ubuntu minimal on my device, but when I want to boot my mini.iso, its installation won't load and I'...
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How to add Windows 10 to GRUB menu, when missing after Focal install and boot-repair?
I have installed Focal (dual boot, Windows 10 was already installed), and the GRUB menu lists only Ubuntu, no Windows, which was customary on my PC also with previous Ubuntu releases. With previous ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 dual boot not booting, only boots with acpi = off
My laptop cannot boot properly. If I turn off it right now, I ll only be able to boot it again if I use the APCI = off in parameters, how do I solve that ?
I m in dual boot ( actually triple )
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Ubuntu 20.04 server installed on usb stick does not see root UUID, Gives up, Drops to Shell
I was running Ubuntu 19.10 Server on two USB sticks for the operating system with four 2 TB ZFS Raid 6 volumes for months before upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 when it came out a bit ago. I restarted once ...
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Grub is lost after compiz crashed
I have a very odd problem. I have a Dell laptop that came with Windows 10 installed. It has an HD with 1TB and a SSD drive with 128GB.
I installed Ubuntu, /home and /swap partitions are on HD but, as ...
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Minimal BASH like line editing is supported GRUB Error on every boot
Everytime I boot up, the Minimal BASH like line editing is supported GRUB window appears and I have to enter normal to get back to the GRUB menu and get things done like normal as before. I have ...
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Slow booting + weird resolution
I’ve just recently installed Ubuntu on HP Omen 15 and suddenly its boot time increased(lasts about 100 seconds or more) and while booting resolution changes (which hasn’t happened before). I’ve looked ...
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Ubuntu boot stuck with after installing amd gpu pro graphics drivers showing no gui
Hello I downloaded AMD gpu pro for graphics, installed it and entered sudo reboot.
After the reboot the Ubuntu 18.04 boot stuck at showing ok ok ok...
The message, where the boot sequence apparently ...
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When the hard disk of Ubuntu is mounted on the motherboard, the hard disk of Windows 10 does not appear
This year I am starting my specialty in Informatics so I thought Ubuntu is a must, but I didn't want to abandon Windows either.
I decided to mount a second NVMe gen3 and dual boot Ubuntu 20.04 (on the ...
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Ubuntu boot problem, failed to send h2c command
I don't know why and how did this happened, I'm using ubuntu 20.04, installed it just a week ago, everything was fine and all until today when I rebooted it showed this:
I reinstalled the whole ...
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Cannot boot into Windows 10 (dual booting error)
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 to be able to dual boot with my existing Windows 10. After the install I wanted to go back to Windows 10, but there is no GRUB menu that prompts me to pick which OS I ...
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Not Enough Disk Space for Boot Repair
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04.1 LTS and am now having problems booting my computer. It worked for a little bit but soon I was getting error messages that I was running out of ...
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Installed Ubuntu by Something else option erasing whole C drive where my previous Windows 10 was installed [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu for the first time and replaced Windows 10 which was installed on the C drive. I always have to go to Windows Boot Manager and select Ubuntu to start my laptop. If I let the ...
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Dual boot: Grub works but menu is not shown
Summary: Grub menu is not showing but it is working, since I can access its options using arrow keys and ENTER.
I have a Dell Inspiron 5420 with dual boot, Win10 + Ubuntu. Windows came pre installed ...
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Ubuntu won't normal boot as it "Failed to start User Manager for UID 121" after wine installation but boots fine with resume option in recovery mode
Im running Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, kernel 4.15.0-112-generic.
I've never used wine before, so I was curious and gave it a try yesterday. It worked fine, however, ever since my ubuntu just won't boot ...
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GPT detected. Please create a BIOS-Boot partition -- but we are on full UEFI!
I had a pre-existing Windows 10 & Ubuntu 18.04 dual boot, in UEFI mode, working with grub2. I previously used Boot-Repair to get that working. They are on separate disks.
I wiped and re-installed ...
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Unable to repair booting problem [duplicate]
I am facing this situation. I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 Since yesterday, I am stuck into Windows. When rebooting, my screen stays black, until it boots into Windows ...
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I need help with dual boot
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my SSD alongside Windows 10, but I can't boot Ubuntu 20.04. It always boots Windows. I ran Boot-Repair, but it didn't work. http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/WvMfFgJvXN/ Here is my ...
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Dual System: Can not get into GRUB interface automatically
I am using a dual system, Windows/Ubuntu. I used to be able to get in GRUB automatically. However, after one rebooting from Windows to Ubuntu, I can not get into the GRUB interface unless I press &...
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Failed to start lightdm (stuck on bootloop)
Currently I was using kde on ubuntu. But after trying to install cinnamon and lightdm, I can't start my OS. It is stucked on boot logo. And it's showing, "failed to start lightdm". I tried ...
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Need help with Ubuntu/W7 dual boot
I'm having an issue setting up a dual boot system. I previously had Windows 7 Ultimate on my machine and have just installed Ubuntu, which worked just fine.
Problem is, I can no longer boot Windows 7, ...
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grub not loading Ubuntu 20.04
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my Asus Vivo laptop alongside Windows 10. That loaded correctly. Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 20.04 by manually creating partitions. The installation went smoothly,...
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BIOS Legacy and GPT partitioned external HDD installed with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Boot repair result shows error about sectors
Why does the error show during boot-repair? FYI: My external HDD size 4TiB.
ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on
I have my machine which shows as:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lscpu
Architecture: ...
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Black screen after boot Ubuntu 20.04
I installed in a new computer Ubuntu 20.04 alongside Windows 10, which I installed first, both in UEFI mode. During the installation of Ubuntu from the live USB I had to run the setup in "secure ...
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System not booting up after keeping it idle for few hourse
I recently updated my system to ubuntu 20.04. A few days back I encountered a problem that whenever I turn on my device it does not turn on battery instead I need to take the battery out and plug in ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 not booting after fresh install
So after installing ubuntu on my old laptop and giving it to my grandpa, it eventually died, but he liked using ubuntu. So he bought a new one and asked me to install it. So I did, but it won't boot. ...
