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Need to Reinstall GRUB | Repair Boot after MB failed. OS on Raid1 / LVM partitions
My UEFI motherboard failed. I am running 22.04LTS on a bootable Raid1 array on a LVM layer.
It is not a dual boot setup.
Of course UEFI requires a small partition in fat32 to act as the boot, efi ...
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Stuck in GRUB 2.06 command line after copying disk with CloneZilla
I have two identical HDD disks both have the same size. Because my main disk had some bad sectors, I decided to move my Ubuntu 22.04 system to another newer disk. Following the advice of people on ...
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Install Ubuntu 22.04 Server with RAID 1 and LVM on machine with UEFI BIOS?
I followed the instructions here - Install Ubuntu 20.04 desktop with RAID 1 and LVM on machine with UEFI BIOS but used the Ubuntu Server Installer to configure the partition layout and added an extra ...
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Is dd for /boot and LVM snapshot for root logical volume the proper strategy for full backup of UEFI PC Ubuntu Server?
I'm planning to create full backup of my Ubuntu Server installation in UEFI mode on 512GB disk.
There is one mandatory UEFI Parition (1GB), /boot is standard EXT4 separate boot partition (2GB) and the ...
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Install Ubuntu 20.04 desktop with separate LVM partitions on UEFI BIOS hardware
I want to install Ubuntu 20.04 desktop with LVM on a laptop with UEFI BIOS. My problem is that the default installer allocates the whole disk (bar the UEFI boot partition and a swap partition) to ONE ...
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Ubuntu erase disk and install option is not removing previous partitions
I have a new computer Asus motherboard, and WD Blue 1TB SSD. Secure Boot set to Other OS (off). Due to problems with Nvidia drivers, I tried to reinstall Ubuntu Budgie 20.04. My first installation was ...
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Ubuntu installer attempts to mount an untargeted partition
I have a machine with two disks. Both were LVM and encrypted. I wanted to install Kubuntu 20.04 on /dev/sdb and formatted it and created a GPT partition table and the necessary partitions. When I run ...
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Why does Ubuntu Server installer create separate /boot and /boot/efi partitions? Is /boot on a separate partition optional?
I am installing Ubuntu Server, and I noticed that the guided lvm process will create a 512MB /boot/efi fat32 partition as well as a 1GB /boot ext4 partition. The rest of the HDD is then given to LVM ...
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Install Ubuntu 20.04 desktop with RAID 1 and LVM on machine with UEFI BIOS
I have a machine with UEFI BIOS. I want to install Ubuntu 20.04 desktop with LVM on top of RAID 1, so my system will continue to work even if one of the drives fail. I haven't found a HOWTO for that. ...
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Migrate MBR/BIOS RAID 1 root partition to GPT/UEFI with LVM
I have been pondering this for a while, and searching various posts, but can't find something that is aligned with my situation.
I am running 18.04.3 LTS currently on a couple of SSDs in RAID 1 (along ...
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Preseeding No physical volume defined in volume group
A couple of weeks ago I asked about configuring Ubuntu preseed to configure LVM partitions. I got no response to that one.
I was able to figure out how to get logical volumes defined for UEFI within ...
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Install Ubuntu 18.04 desktop with RAID 1 and LVM on machine with UEFI BIOS
I have a machine with UEFI BIOS. I want to install Ubuntu 18.04, desktop version with RAID 1 (and LVM) so my system will continue to work even if one of the drives fail. I haven't found a HOWTO of how ...
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Reinstall Ubuntu 16.04 with UEFI, LUKS encryption and LVM
I had a disaster following an ubuntu update that went wrong
end result was my /boot dir got deleted
it also seems that my /proc dir also now contains nothing
when I boot the machine it just drops ...
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Force UEFI installation with LVM now can't boot windows
I wanted to install ubuntu gnome as dual boot to my windows 7. When trying to install, I got a pop up about forcing UEFI. I didn't pay much attention to that and I clicked on force. After that I got ...
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Ubuntu dual-boot with LVM and LUKS install fails
I have a HP Pavilion G7 laptop with UEFI support and a 250GB GPT SSD disk. Laptop initially had Windows 8 installed, but later I made a Windows 10 clean install and reserved some empty space for linux....
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