Questions tagged [grub2]
Grub2 is Grub version 2, a multiboot bootloader from the GNU project.
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Windows 8 changes boot order
I installed Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 on a 3TB GPT disk in UEFI mode.
Both can boot up OK.
Both operating systems created their ntries in the UEFI boot menu, there's an "ubuntu" and a "Windows 8" ...
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Create Windows 10 USB installation drive with Linux only
By udisk, I mean a 2.5 inch HDD placed in an External Hard Drive Enclosure
I'm quite familiar (not professional, daily use only) with Linux (Arch&Ubuntu) but newbie to Windows. Sometimes I ...
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Boot Win10 from an ISO-Image on a certain partition using GRUB2
I have bought a laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T520) with a locked BIOS. So I can't change the boot order of the laptop. The upmost device in the boot order is the internal HDD. Fortunately there is a ...
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Linux installation won't boot due to GRUB "no such device" error
I think I've exhausted all I know to do, so I'm sending up the flares. I'll try to cover it all (albeit, in pieces), so please be patient.
I decided to install Linux Mint 11 where I previously had ...
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How to make grub2 chain-boot Win8 after upgrading Fedora18 to Fedora19?
The story
I have Lenovo IdeaPad U310 with 24gb SSD, 500gb HDD and UEFI system. I flashed it with EFI from U410 for more info http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Installing-Fedora-17-on-U310-...
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Why does my USB hdd returns SG_IO: bad/missing sense data?
I am able to boot and run commands from external USB hdd; the message in question appears for about 45 seconds then booting continues. GRUB2 is installed on internal HDD. When choosing to boot ...
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String manipulation in Grub2
One of the new features of Grub2 is scriptability. At my work we're using it to great affect. However, I recent stumbled on a terrible short coming. There isn't any string manipulation or ...
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Cannot re-enable Bitlocker
I've installed a fresh Windows 10 in a partition on my system, enabling bitlocker. Then I booted Linux from the other partition and overwrote the master boot record with Grub so I could boot Linux and ...
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Changing GRUB_TIMEOUT value doesn’t seem to work
Yes, I did do sudo update-grub.
Changing the /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT variable seems to work once, but then after that first time every time I reboot the timeout is 30 seconds and my time I set ...
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From GRUB2, boot an ISO in an LVM2 logical volume
tl;dr - Is it possible to boot from a .iso file that is located in an unencrypted lmv2 logical volume? How?
I'm trying to set this up in a VirtualBox VM before I do it for real with my laptop. I have ...
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grub entry for console only
I have just installed ubuntu 16.04 alongside windows 7, and would like an option in the boot menu for a console only. I found the following entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg:
menuentry 'Ubuntu' --class ...
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How to boot Linux with extlinux
EDIT: Just adding my two more cents after this question becomes a "popular" one. I had been a great fan of grub because it was able to boot everything that I used. However, when grub2 came, I really ...
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Grub2 MBR vs. Windows MBR
I have an HP system that came with Vista installed and also a hidden restore partition. I subsequently upgraded to Win7(32 bit) Ultimate, and from there to Win7 Pro. Now the hard drive is failing. ...
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Windows 10 / Linux Dual Boot - Boot-loader Problems
I am currently running a dual boot of Windows 10 Home 64-bit and Xubuntu 15.04 64-bit on my machine. I have Windows 10 on an SSD, Xubuntu on another SSD and an HDD for storage formatted as NTFS (this ...
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Move Grub to a different drive
I recently added a new ssd to my machine which I intended to have as my main drive. I installed crunchbang and everything went fine, except I unthinkingly accepted updating/overwriting the MBR on my ...
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