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How can I install and run Ubuntu directly from an SD card?
I've heard that this is possible and I want to do this. I downloaded Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS.iso(64-bit) file and used win32 Disk Imager to write it onto two SD cards to try and get it to work. The SD ...
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How to manually boot with grub or: how to boot a 32bit Linux OS on a 32bit only UEFI firmware computer?
I want to install a 32bit Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) on my Intel Atom Bay Trail tablet, but I fail to get it to boot. The device's firmware only supports 32bit bootloaders. There are guides that somewhat ...
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Computer won't boot after uninstalling Ubuntu and reinstalling windows
Hello fellow Internet users,
So I decided to install Ubuntu, formatting my hard drive to do so, after a few months I decided to go back to Windows, so I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled ...
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Boot Ubuntu VHDX alongside Windows 10
I have a Windows 10 installation on my Lenovo T430s laptop. I would like to dual boot into an Ubuntu 14.04 VHDX at startup that was created using Hyper-V (running on the same laptop). The Ubuntu ...
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Unable to boot even from usb drive
Problem description
After shutting down my computer last night and starting it again this morning, I have for no apparent reason lost the ability to boot into either of the installed OS (Windows 10 / ...
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Ubuntu(Or any other linux distro) stuck on retrieving clocksource
The past few days I have been trying to install linux on my laptop(Asus UX430) with no luck. I have tried elementaryOs,PopOS,Manjaro,Ubuntu,Kubuntu,Gentoo and Fedora but they all gave me the same ...
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GRUB booting wrong partition
I have a dual-boot installation with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. I recently bought an SSD NVMe m2, and I would like to move the partition with Windows 10 on the SSD. In order to do this, I cloned the ...
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Error: no such partition - when starting up my laptop
When I start my laptop (dual boot, Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20), I am getting a black screen that says "Error: no such partition. Press any key to continue". When I press the key, I am directed ...
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Why do I need to enter my BitLocker recovery key every time after dual-booting Ubuntu?
I recently got a new laptop and installed Windows 10 Pro. This laptop is UEFI-enabled and has BitLocker drive encryption. Following the advice of some other posts I first suspended BitLocker then ...
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Cannot boot ubuntu after installing windows 10
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In the BIOS settings, there was an option to "enable EFI file as safe" or something. It was greyed out so I set a BIOS admin password to unlock it. I then clicked it, selected HD0 -> grubx....
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Windows/Ubuntu dual boot - no option menu, immediately boots Ubuntu
This would be a duplicate question if any answer in this question worked for me. So here is what I did so far:
I created free space on the disk using the windows disk management tool
When installing ...
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Ubuntu live USB not shown as bootable device in bios
I'd like to make a bootable Ubuntu USB with a writable partition
for storing backups and data. I want the USB to be bootable for
mobility, i.e. I'd be able to boot it on another arbitrary machine,
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Remove 'BCDEdit set {bootmgr}' entry
While dual booting Ubuntu with windows, I had encountered 'Ubuntu grub not showing' problem.
At the stage, I typed on the following command on windows command prompt.
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} \EFI\...
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How to resolve error: no such partition after removing Ubuntu on a triple boot system?
My system consists of Ubuntu, Elementary OS, and Windows 10.
After removing the Ubuntu partition in Windows, I restarted the system and got the error: Error: no such partition. Entering rescue mode...
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Missing drivers to install Windows 7 on Ubuntu 18 Thinkpad
I am trying to install Windows 7 on a dedicated partition on a Thinkpad T460s that is currently running Ubuntu 18. I created the partition with gparted, and I created the bootable USB using Rufus from ...