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Windows 10 fail to boot with 0xc0000001 error code
Introduction
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 ...
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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 ...
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