Questions tagged [bootloader]
A bootloader is a small program that gets executed at startup time. The bootloader loads data and other startup process into RAM where they can be executed.
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Can't proceed installing linux
I have install chrome os flex before in my laptop, and i was trying to come back for linux. But i cant proceed install.
Boot menu logo is blinking, and some stuffs are showing.
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GRUB not loading properly when external SSD is disconnected
I have an internal SSD on which I have my primary Windows installed. I also have an external SSD where I installed my secondary Windows and Ubuntu OS. I mostly use both the Windows OS and sometimes ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS start-up message/check which delays boot
I am having Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS dual boot system. Windows 11 on regular SSD while Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on PCIE NVME SSD.
It's Dell XPS 8930 Desktop(2018) where I have made a lot of upgrades ...
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How to remove grub bootloader on a locked down laptop?
Ok so I installed ubuntu on a usb stick but it also put grub on my school laptop, I cant open diskmgt on windows, how can I delete the bootloader using linux?
The only thing I can think of is taking ...
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Ubuntu installation failure - Unable to install grub - Locked-NVram
Having issues when trying to install Ubuntu 22.04.2 (desktop) on my refurbed mini PC:
HP EliteDesk 800 G3 DM
i5-6500T
8 GB RAM
240 GB SSD
No dual boot, only want Ubuntu.
I created a boot-loader on a ...
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I'm trying to dual boot ubuntu 22.04 and win10 but it always boot up win10. If i press f9, i get to choose ubuntu so far nothing have worked for me
Win10 is preinstalled
The system is Hp 650
I've selected dev/sda, dev/sda(the partition number), windows Boot manager as the device for the bootloader installation it still boots to win10 without ...
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Ubuntu installed on usb uses more than three minutes to boot
I have installed ubuntu on an usb stick.But it takes more than three minutes to boot. I don't know what's going wrong.
Here's the details:
USB: Kingston DTMAXA 256GB 3.2Gen2
PC： MSI GP76hx i7-12800hx ...
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How to install Ubuntu Core (2 versions) into separated hard drives
I want to install 2 Ubuntu core distributions to 2 separated hard drives in one PC.
I tried but there is only one distribution shown in the boot sequence menu.
How can we change the file /boot/grub/...
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bootloader missing after battery replacement
I have a dual boot: windows 10 and ubuntu 22.04 LTS. After the battery replacement, I found the ubuntu bootloader missing, whereas the ubuntu partition is intact.
Now I am directly booting into the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and Window boot loader issue
I am having issue with the GRUB bootloader, where the Focal OS isnt showing at all - just Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows are shown as boot options.
I had installed Windows (/dev/nvme1n1p3) -> Ubuntu 18....
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Resolving BIOS-Related Errors during Ubuntu Installation
I'm having trouble installing Ubuntu on my laptop. The laptop originally had Windows installed on an SSD, but the SSD is not working properly, so I want to install Ubuntu on the hard disk instead. ...
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Windows 11 not in grub menu. Do I add the windows partition or the bootloader partition to grub
I am trying to get windows 11 on my grub bootloader. I tried putting the windows partition euid into grub(had to do it manually cuz the copy and paste was being strange)
Windows shows up in the grub ...
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No option to choose Ubuntu - boots into windows
After installing Ubuntu and going through the process after restarting It boots immediately into windows.
I’m currently in the try Ubuntu and this is the gparted that I got right now.
I tried running ...
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How can I run Unbuntu on raspberry-pi 3 or 4 using only a single core?
I would like to use the Raspberry-Pi 3 or 4 to get a ballpark performance estimate for a 64bit-ARM embedded system that runs Linux but only has a single core. (I don't have the target system yet). I ...
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How to boot one windows os from ubuntu grub menu
How can i boot one windows from ( i have 2 windows and 1 ubuntu os in system) from grub.
2 windows but have only one windows boot manager. when i boot windows boot manager from grub it needs an extra ...
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How to cleanly disable Grub after a migration to systemd-boot?
Short story: I replaced grub2 with systemd-boot and cannot be happier. Much simpler, and works perfectly on a rather complex efi multi-boot system mixing sata, nvme...
Now I want to make sure update-...
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Ubuntu/Windows 11 Dual Boot Installation Failure: Windows Throws Inaccessible_Boot_Device
When I installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my system, the installation seemed to work normally, but then I tried to open Windows from grub. The Entry was on the grub menu, but when selecting it, Windows ...
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Ubuntu OS failed after restarting
I'm running Ubuntu 18.4. The OS raid was created during the OS installation with (sdb1 & sc1) file type ( NON-fs data) & I don't have any problem in this scenario> Then I had an sdb1 fault,...
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Ubuntu 18.04 stuck at splash/grub screen even after boot-repair
I'm facing a problem booting my Ubuntu 18.04. So i made a bootable USB-stick(with Ubuntu 18.04) then i booted through 'try Ubuntu', i opened the terminal and gave the following commands:
sudo mount /...
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Unable to boot ubuntu 22.04 Virtual box VM : Dev loop1 unable to read block 8
I couldn't boot my ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine. It seems like it fails to read some chunk of virtualized hard disk. I've never had this issue before.
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Failed to import pool rpool. manually import the pool and exit
I have partitioned my computer after installing Ubuntu. And I restarted my pc, and then I face this problem.
Failed to import pool rpool
Manually import the pool and exit.
Kindly help me to solve ...
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Linux Ubuntu won't load after intalling Windows 11 - (Dell Laptop)
I have a dell G5 laptop and have just install Windows 11. The laptop boots into Windows 11 perfectly fine.
To try regain my Linux boot loader I have followed the post to try get it to work:
Cannot ...
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Bootloader is messed up, keyboard doesn't work, and fast boot is enabled so USB isnt loading
I am in a bit of a predicament.
I was trying to change the default boot order in grub on ubuntu which messed up grub. Now I get booted into grub minimal bash mode and the keyboard won't work ...
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Install ubuntu 22.04 bootloader in windows boot manager partition
I purchased a dell laptop with windows 11 on it. I am in the middle of installing Ubuntu 22.04.1. I have reached the part of the install, where I'm ready to install the software. I'm at the point ...
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Two grubs on one install of Ubuntu?
I recently installed ubuntu 22.04 on a new Intel NUC. I created a Fat32 boot partition, and a pv for an LVM with mount points for root, etc, usr...et al. The install went fine and the machine boots. ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, 5.15.0-50-generic x86_64 get ACPI BIOS Error after update [duplicate]
I'm new to Linux and couldn't boot the system after making some upgrade. Let me know if I need to provide more information.
error message is as follow
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Need help switching to different GRUB bootloader
I have two SSDs:
SSD1
Windows 11
Ubuntu 22.04
SSD2
Ubuntu 22.04
I'd been using dual-boot on SSD1 until recently when I decided to buy Ubuntu it's own drive (SSD2, fresh install). The goal is to ...
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Could not detect failed SSD after failed installation
I recently purchased Hp 15g2039tu. while installing ubuntu in the free space, installation failed. Thereafter the ssd is not getting recognised. Further the boot loader is not visible so that windows ...
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Windows 11 not appearing in GRUB bootloader
I am using Linux for more than three months. I had installed Windows 10 before Ubuntu and I was happy with the dual boot. Yesterday, I clean installed Windows 11 (using a partition on my HDD i.e. ...
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Emergency Boot Mode Error
I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS.
There are similar questions, but the poster was already much further along before posting and I don't know how to get to their initial step.
What's happening?
When I turn ...
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Grub 2 config menu : how to replace enter key with tab
My keyboard enter key is not working . Unfortunately Amazon us does not carry my keyboard as of now in stock. In the meantime I have a 4 boot option menu in my /boot/grub/grub.cfg last of which is ...
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ALERT! /dev/mmcblk1p1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
can someone please shed some light on the situation. I have SoM FETA40i-C/ SBC OKA40i-C installed on a custom board. During boot process OS won't boot randomly into an interactive shell, it stucks ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS boots but error messages appear after formatting: partition error, APCI, BIOS. How to solve them? [duplicate]
Ubuntu loads and works fine but prior to fully loading I get a few lines of error messages.
click here to visualize error messages
I've tried a couple of solutions for the dev sda2 error message and ...
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Is this partition using windows? How can I delete it?
I have my disk divided in two partitions and I think one of them is running windows but I don't know which one of them and how I can delete it.
In my boot menu I can see a Windows bootloader which I ...
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Is my bootloader or something stored on my new bootable flash drive?
I have Windows 10, and an SSD and HDD. Win10 is on my SSD, HDD is nothing but storage for windows, except there's also a small 16GB Ubuntu partition on it. Before recently, if I restarted, It would ...
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RPi CM4 no USB boot with Ubuntu 22.04.1 for RPi
Hey I've been having trouble USB booting my RPi CM4 with Ubuntu.
I have already made other posts on multiple forums (including the RPi forum), however I've mostly been referred to here.
The following ...
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How can I get rid of the UEFI partition and still boot from the drive?
I'm currently dual booting Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 10. Each is on its own separate drive. I would like to create a Hyper-V VM to boot to the Ubuntu drive in Windows 10.
I found this question on a ...
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How can I take advantage of the secure boot technology that my laptop has?
My laptop has secure boot and from what I understand it is supposed to protect the bootloader. So if my OS gets infected it won't show me any message and boot but if the bootloader is infected it will ...
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I’m trying to install Ubuntu Mate (22.04) dual booting with windows 10. Where do I install the boot loader?
I’m trying to install Ubuntu Mate (22.04) in dual boot with windows 10. Where do I install the boot loader? I have already created an empty partition. I just don’t know the next steps. This is my ...
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My laptop is not booting it's stuck and getting an ACPI Error
My laptop is not booting. It's stuck at a black screen and getting an ACPI Error.
Error: Abortion method
ACPI BIOS Error Could not resolve symbol AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI Error
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Error during Installation of Ubuntu
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 22.04 with a bootable USB, but after the Ubuntu logo it shows me the following error.
Something related to Failed to start set console scheme SQUASHFS error
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how to reset bootloader
I generated bootloader-id using below command
grub-install /dev/${disk} --force-extra-removable --bootloader-id=${disk}
this is work, but have a risk。
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It is possible to ...
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My ubuntu install won't boot
I recently tried to install the latest version of ubuntu on my computer and ran into an issue. After my installation completed and the machine rebooted it was not able to boot into ubuntu. Initially ...
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"Invalid system disk" after "There are differences between boot sector and its backup"
I made a live Linux system on a USB pen drive using Rufus (MBR partition scheme) and everything was working fine except for a large number of warnings and critical error messages I got from dmesg. ...
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Move gdm to boot partition on another drive
I am currently trying to install Ubuntu 22.04 on an Acer Aspire Laptop which has a 14GB Nvme drive and a 1TB HDD drive installed.
Current configuartion:
The /boot/efi /boot and swap partition is ...
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systemd-boot Install Failure
I am replacing GRUB with systemd-boot on a multiboot system with several instances of Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 on discrete partitions because the instances are competing for control of the bootloader ...
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UA FIPS - server fails to boot
Working on a brand new Ubuntu VM. Fresh install.
Performed ua enable fips-updates and then rebooted. Now, the server fails to boot. I have tried disabling/removing fips=1 in the bootloader, as well as ...
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The bootloader is installed on another drive
I was installing Ubuntu 22.04 on my external SSD, and since I went with the default partitioning options, the installer installed the boot loader on the SSD of my PC instead! Now even if the external ...
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Reinstalling Ubuntu which option to choose in Device for Boot Loader Installation
I already have ubuntu 16.04 on my machine and am installing 20.04.
I also have GRUB BootLoader.
I have seen some videos on installing 20.04 on youtube,
almost every video says to choose "/" ...
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Install Ubuntu alongside windows, but use windows boot manager
Is there a scenario, where I install Ubuntu without Grub and am able to run it manually.(I know Grub is responsible for booting, but I have to ask anyway, may be there is a way).
I ask this because, ...
