Questions tagged [boot]
Use this tag if you have trouble booting Ubuntu or you have questions about the bootup process.
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Boot hangs after "Checking battery state..." [closed]
The boot process of my installation hangs after the Checking battery state... message. I can continue to boot using Alt + F5, then logging in, and typing startx. After that everything works as ...
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Can't use my new Logitech K750 when booting (GRUB) in Ubuntu 11.04
Yes, My new Logitech K750 works allright when my OS (Ubuntu 11.04) is up.
But there's only one thing: when booting and going into the GRUB2 bootloader, I can't select options by using the arrow keys,...
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Grub boot menu does not properly reflect default selection using Start-up Manager
After a ubuntu linux core update (2.6.38-8 to 2.6.38-10) a few days ago, I noticed my OS default selection in grub had changed. The previous core version was added to grub as a single option to be ...
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How to Restore GRUB after installing Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)
Hi installed W7 after Ubuntu 11.04, and it broke up my boot options, I followed this tutorial to ...
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Installing 10.10+ with Radeon HD 6970 Video Card
I built a new PC that has a Diamond Radeon HD 6970 graphics card, and no on-board graphics. When I boot from the Ubuntu disc, it runs through some initial booting stuff, and then gets to a loading ...
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Boot from USB freezes [closed]
I am a total beginner to both Linux and Ubuntu.
I have a netbook, an Acer Aspire One D255 with Windows 7.
I want to boot from USB (no cd-drive on netbook) to first try Ubuntu and perhaps install it if ...
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Unity stop working after disk (or drive) error [closed]
Unity worked perfectly in my laptop before. However, today when I hard rebooted my laptop, there's something like disk/drive error detect before the login screen. I waited until the disk/drive check ...
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Reboot hangs 100% - possibly in mountall
UPDATE: It seems mountall is hanging inside the routine emit_event(), which it calls after / is remounted to emit an event to that effect. Inside emit_event, it calls ply_boot_client_flush(), then ...
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11.04 won't boot all the way - unusable [closed]
I'm new to ubuntu/linux and need some trouble shooting help. I setup 11.04 with zoneminder, it worked great for a few weeks and now it seems to boot fine but I'm unable to use anything. runs very ...
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What do the different Boot Options mean? (i.e. acpi=off, noapic, nolapic, etc)
I've been having issues installing 11.04 on my new laptop, the solution was to enable any of these boot options:
acpi=off
noapic
nolapic
But, what do these options actually do?
What sort of ...
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Unable to install/boot 11.04 on a ThinkPad L520
I have just got a ThinkPad L520 and my first step, naturally, is to install Ubuntu.
I've got the 11.04 amd64 Alternate CD, but every time I run anything from the first menu I just get a blank screen.
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Persistance with a remastersys ISO on a USB pendrive
I'm trying to create a bootable ISO of Ubuntu 11.04 using remastersys's backup option.
Ubuntu's Make Startup Disk utility allows me to create a bootable USB drive with this ISO, but the option for ...
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System Never Finishes Booting
I'm using ubuntu 10.10 dual boot with XP. I planned to increase the size of swap partition. So I delete the swap partition. And I move the partition right so that swap partition can get 2 GB.
Then ...
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2.6.38-10 stops booting
11.04 natty narwhale (2.6.38-10) stop boot.
After work with: gparted, palimpsest, mountmanager.
sda:
sda1 ntfs flag: boot Windows 7 mbr
sda2 ntfs
sda3 extended flag: lba (?)
sda5 ntfs
sda6 ext4 ...
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Boot options menu disappeared
I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu both installed on my machine, but for some reasons I re-installed Windows 7, and now when the system starts, I can't see GRUB menu, which normally appears asking using for ...
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