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Windows 10 fail to boot with 0xc0000001 error code
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Hello, I'm running multiboot installation on machine with UEFI. I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu installed, managed by Grub at startup and I have laptop working like this for about half a ...
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How to change 'timeout' of the UEFI boot manager from Windows 8?
How can I change the 'timeout' setting of the EFI boot manager from within Windows 8? I am trying to dual-boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu and I would like to be able to choose one or the other OS at boot ...
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Windows sometimes doesn't boot after Ubuntu 16.04 dual boot installation
After installing Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 on my computer (Ubuntu on a hard drive, the grub and windows 10 on a NVMe drive), sometimes Windows will not boot all the way, and boots slowly when it ...
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Autorun zerofree on boot (or on shutdown)
I have a virtualbox vitual server that keeps growing. To keep its virtual disk small I'm manually shrinking it using VBoxManage modifyhd disk.vdi compart after zeroing unused space on the disk using ...
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Missing Operating System after install of ubuntu on a macbook as only os
I have installed Ubuntu on a 2009 MacBookPro (intel 64 bits) using the iso ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso and unetbootin to create a live USB.
So basically, I followed the tutorial to create a usb ...
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Ubuntu won't boot with 4 hard drives
I got two HGST 4TB HDD's for my birthday and I'm trying to put them in my media center which already has a 128GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. The motherboard is an ASRoxk E350M1 which only has 4 SATA headers so ...
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Connecting two monitors at boot causes Linux kernel to hang when enabling KMS
When two monitors are connected at boot, the Linux kernel completely hangs at fb0: switching to i915 from EFI VGA. The screens stay on and continue displaying the last message, but everything is ...
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Getting a very slow startup on Ubuntu 20. Seems to be stuck around the stage where the Gnome screen appears
My system is:
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS on a dedicated SSD (no virtual machine)
Intel® Core™ i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 8 with 31.3 GiB
I use the default setting BIOS (ASUS motherboard). I did not do any ...
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Accidentally partitioned & formatted my boot partition
While reformatting several portable disks with gparted, with disk 5 I made a terrible mistake: I forgot to choose the correct disk, so gparted took the first listed one, which fortunately was not my 1 ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 cannot mount /boot/efi
I have an Ubuntu Server installation that doesn't start up because the disk which contained the EFI partition is broken. I inserted a new HDD and created a new EFI partition by using GParted (new GPT ...
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Cannot boot ISO from GRUB 2
I have a problem when booting a Deepin ISO image with GRUB 2 from USB. I have been trying to fix the problem for almost a week now. Here is the grub.cfg file:
# GLEE USB GRUB2 Configuration
# ...
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How to install Ubuntu on Odys Winbook 14 - USB booting via uefi not working
I couldn't figure out yet how to install Ubuntu on an Odys Winbook 14.
Stats:
Intel® Celeron® Quad Core Processor with up to 4x 2,2 GHz Burstspeed
35,56 cm (14") 16:9 Full-HD IPS Display (1.920x1....
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Failed to create kernel channel: installing Ubuntu (ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso) onto System76 laptop
I created a bootable USB for
I burned to USB with https://etcher.io/ on my Mac OSX machine (just like Disk Utility) as stated in this guide.
Then I inserted into laptop, held F7, got to boot ...
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How to boot into ubuntu directly?
I am dual booting Ubuntu 15.10 and Windows 10. The problem is that the system boots directly into Windows. There is no grub menu shown during startup. In order to boot into Ubuntu I have to press ESC ...
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btrfs mounts wrong subvolume on boot
My system uses btrfs for its root volume, with daily snapshots. I'm trying to roll back to a recent backup, but it persists in mounting the same subvolume on boot even though I updated the default ...