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Cannot install or boot Ubuntu on an external SSD
Usually, recent versions of Ubuntu support recent harware much better than older versions of Ubuntu.
If you need Ubuntu 20.04 to run a specific version of ROS, install it in a virtual machine running ...
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Can't boot into Ubuntu; Can't Install Grub
I found the answer!
You have to boot into a Live USB, and install it. It will create another Ubuntu Install, and then there will be "Operating systems detected: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS and Ubuntu 22....
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How to prevent my drive with Windows partition from unmounting undesirably?
I faced a similar problem and landed here 6 years after the question was asked. For whoever is reading this, this is how I solved it.
I have installed my Ubuntu on an external SSD and I have my ...
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Why can't I unlock a KeepassXC file located on a NTFS volume mounted in Ubuntu?
Here is a clip where the setting in Ubuntu 22.04 actually is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XthTdRro4KA
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How to boot from a usb stick when using U-Boot
Ubuntu ARM will NOT work on a M1 Mac, because of the gigantic porting effort needed
If you want to run Linux on your M1 Mac, there is the Asahi Linux, but this is still in alpha
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SSD partition for a UI development workstation
Development machines tend to require extra disk space. For what you are trying to do allocating a 256GB partition for Ubuntu would be nice. Don't waste disk space by creating extra partitions that you ...
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Can not boot Ubuntu 22.04, dual boot installation, no GRUB loader
I set up Ubuntu 22.04 over 20.04 with a dual boot system with Windows 10. When I restarted system, grub rescue prompt appeared. After trying some suggestions without any success, I tried the following:...
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Installation of Ubuntu 22.10 on dual boot
The problem is your bios isn’t set to read the usb as a higher priority than grub on the hard drive / ssd. Grub won’t offer you boot from usb - it just lets you select from any of the installed OS’s.
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How to change grub timeout in Ubuntu 20.04
this worked for me on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04.1LTS server installed with ubuntu-desktop-minimal added afterwards. This is not a dual boot system
In the file /etc/default/grub I added:
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My system locks into a loop of boot cycle of boot then re-boot
The error does seem to be a faulty hard disk (old age like me) Have replaced it and see how I go.
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Is automatic nvidia driver installation with secure boot broken in ubuntu 20.04.3
My steps to make it work with secure boot were as follows:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
I pressed then a menu labeled as "Perform MOK Management" appeared, there were the ...
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Can not boot Ubuntu 22.04, dual boot installation, no GRUB loader
Install Ubuntu 20.04, then upgrade to 22.04. Extra pain, but worked for me.
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Unable to boot in Linux system. Having issue with partition mount
So I fixed this issue. The reason for not booting was low space on disk.
From error screen I logged into tty mode and then reinstalled Ubuntu desktop.
This fixed th issue.
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Unable to boot in Linux system. Having issue with partition mount
I would recommend booting into your live CD and try to run the command: fsck -Av /dev/nvme0n1p4 (assuming nvme0n1p4 is the drive your Linux OS is present on)
This is the fsck or Filesystem Consistency ...
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Does software distributed for Ubuntu work for Ubuntu flavors?
Yes, and even anything based on Ubuntu such as Linux Mint, "deb" (debian) packages install and work with no problems.
Dual booting however, microsuck are making more and more sure that's not ...
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Does software distributed for Ubuntu work for Ubuntu flavors?
but will software distributed for Ubuntu work with Lubuntu?
Yes they do.
Lubuntu is just the same Ubuntu underneawith a different user interface and a different choice of default programs which make ...
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boot-repair Fails due to bad substitution in gui-actions.sh
I had the same issue and was able to fix it by changing the mentioned line (in /usr/share/boot-sav/gui-actions.sh line 234) to the following:
PARTB=${LISTOFPARTITIONS[$PARTTOUNFLAG]} #sdXY
The "]...
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How ro get Windows 7 alongside Ubuntu 22.04.01
Make a bootable flash drive with rufus latest version is 3.21. Use some windows machine to make the bootable flashdrive! Or burn .iso to a DVD.
Fist install Windows 7 from the prepared image;
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Unable to Dualboot (Ubuntu / Windows) with RAID1 Array, NVME M2 SDD & GRUB
Unless you configured your RAID members in UEFI, you're probably using software RAID (as in, a RAID configured in Linux kernel, not in controller firmware). In that case, I don't think you need to ...
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Ubuntu Installation - Use As, Mount Point, and Device for boot loader installation selections
Use As, Mount Point, and Device for Boot Loader Installation
For your case
Use As: Ext4 journaling file system
Mount Point: /
Device for Boot Loader Installation: /dev/sda ATA ST500LM034-2GH17
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How can I get grub2 to boot a different option only on the next boot?
awk -F\' '/^menuentry / {print $2}' /boot/grub/grub.cfg|cat -n|awk '{print $1-1,$1="",$0}'
That'll give you the numbers and names of the available grub boot menu options.
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Unable to boot GRUB while trying to set up dual boot configuration
I managed to fix it! Grub2win didn't work at first. I tried part 2 of this guide here: https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery/boot-configuration-data-missing.html - Basically, I put a windows 11 ...
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Dualboot Ubuntu/Windows: "Error: file '/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi' not found"
For others, who have same problem, but file is really missing.
On my PC installed windows and Ubuntu on the same physical disk, after trouble with power off, I got this problem.
My solution
I boot ...
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Link to restart from Windows to Ubuntu
I use Arch instead of Ubuntu but the GRUB configuration should be the same.
What I don't really like about the previous anwsers is that they:
either involve editing the grub.cfg file directly, which ...
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Can't get nice boot loader screen
The instructions are from 2017, that is 5 years ago. A time in which grub has evolved.
Since step 4 onward obviously breaks grub, try to omit them. Setting the theme as described and the instructions ...
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Ubuntu fails to boot on Windows 11 PC
Chances are you destroyed the EFI boot partition completely when you installed Ubuntu. (Formatted completely, installed, when asked destroy the partition clicked "yes".) Officially, there is ...
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