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Ubuntu hangs at startup due to zfs
I installed zfs-on-linux to my virtual Ubuntu LTS server years ago via PPA. The system resides on a VMware Workstation 10 in Windows 8.1.
The working ZFS/SPL versions installed are 0.6.3. It has ...
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Installed Ubuntu 14.10 on MacBook Pro (5,5) without rEFIt or rEFInd, hangs on purple screen
I recently inherited a mid 2009 13" MacBook Pro. I wanted to install Ubuntu 14.10 on the machine rather than OS X. I've previously had success with Ubuntu 13.10 on a 2006 MacBook by booting to live ...
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Reinstall Windows 8.1 on PC with Ubuntu dual boot
On my PC I already have a dual boot of Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu. Now after a while, Windows is acting a bit sluggish and I want to reinstall it. I have a lot of data which I don't want to lose, so I ...
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Corrupted Windows 8 MBR, recovery disk's repair tools fail
I'm using Windows 8 64 bit on an ASUS N56 Laptop. I was attempting to upgrade to Windows 8.1 and the installation was interrupted. Attempted System Restore, which didn't work. Long story short, I ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 x32 - Windows 7 Pro x64 dual boot - clock is wrong (UTC)
I have a problem with time when booting windows after linux. The reason is that Ubuntu saves hw clock as UTC but Windows 7 expects it to be saved as localtime. So Windows shows time that is one hour ...
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Computer stopped booting after I tried to allocate a drive to unallocated space
I installed Ubuntu on my Windows 7 yesterday and after that I booted to Windows. After that as I saw an unallocated space while installing Ubuntu, I tried to allocate that unallocated space to make it ...
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boot as superuser (root) in ubuntu 12.04 server
I try to realize a multisensor system (without Display or keyboard) which needs sudo rights directly after bootup (Ubuntu 12.04 server for ARM). Therefore, I would like to automatically login as root. ...
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Booting Ubuntu with a RAID-1 Boot Failure
I'm planning on picking up 2 SSD cards for my file server and installing Ubuntu on them using softRAID-1. I will not be keeping a hot spare, so I want to make sure that, if one drive fails, I can ...
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Create an image of a pure Ubuntu-Installation on Macbook Pro
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on my Macbook Pro (Late 2009) as the only operating system, so theres's no Mac OS X oder Bootcamp installed. It runs fine and now i'd like to create an image of the current ...
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Freeze on boot, lightDM will not start
Having recently installed ubuntu 11.10 on a new computer after approximately a week of use I experienced a freeze on start-up. I think some updates where installed on previous session but I can't ...
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Grub doesn't load Ubuntu 10.10 after update
I recently installed a lot of updates for Ubuntu 10.10, since 11.04 didn't work on my system (Lenovo x201).
Today after the update, grub still exists and lists all OS on boot-up. Starting Windows 7 ...
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Ubuntu Studio 11.04 My user account has dissappeared off of the log in gui
Turned on my linux box this evening- dual boot natty and studio - and discovered my login gui for studio was missing my user account name. As well as the desktop log in options (Ubuntu, ubuntu classic,...
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Mistakenly edited something while booting Windows. Now it doesn't boot
I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10..
I had just finished a session on Win7 which was extremely slow, and I decided to restart in safe mode to uninstall some ...
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Weird video problem with Linux variants
I decided recently I wanted to give Linux a go so I first download a Ubuntu boot CD.
The boot menu came up fine, and then a glowing Ubuntu logo was in the middle of the screen for a while. Then the ...
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Dual booting windows 8 and Kali Linux 1.0.8
I'm trying to install kali linux along with windows 8
The latest Kali version (1.0.8) supports booting alongside windows 8
I installed Kali Linux from a LiveCD, rebooted and it went straight to ...
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