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Safely delete Efi System Partition to allow extension of volume
I installed Ubuntu on a fraction of one of my SSD drives. However, I ended up removing Ubuntu and deleting the space on the partition it was allocating.
Now there's an EFI System Partition between my ...
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What is the reason for (general logic) of the PEBOOT BIOS boot table entry (or EUFI partion) on a DELL machine (BIOS setup screen)?
The BIOS setup page 'boot systems' for my Dell XPS 9320, Ubuntu variation, is driving me crazy. I disable entries for "ubuntu" and PEBOOT (uncheck the boxes) and exit setup. It looks like ...
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How to fix Ubuntu 22.04 UEFI boot GPT issues after simple dd clone to larger disk
I have a healthy Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installation on a 1TB SSD
It's a simple disk-- not using LVM, just two partitions: the 512 MiB EFI System Partition and the rest is one big ext4 partition for the OS ...
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What's the boot folder in ESP?
My partition table
First disk is for data, second for OS, in the last partition Ubuntu is installed. I had now completely shifted my whole workflow from windows 10 to ubuntu. And I was thinking to ...
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UEFI not seeing bootable drive
Recently upgraded on my servers from Ubuntu 14.04 to 18.04. After the usual amount of UEFI caused grub installation errors I eventually got the OS installed. However the UEFI doesn't see the drive ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 - how to reboot to UEFI?
Question:
How do I boot into my UEFI? System: Lenovo Yoga 720-13IKB.
I have found only two answers so far, which suggest
systemctl reboot --firmware
and
systemctl reboot --firmware-setup
Neither ...
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UEFI freezes whenever I press enter at "Boot" option to change boot order (other UEFI settings do not freeze it)
I am struggling with my Thinkpad dual boot setup and fixing one problem might have led to another. I am a complete noob and not sure which piece of info would be relevant to the problem, so I will ...
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How do I boot to BIOS directly from Ubuntu?
Disclaimer: I have basically no experience with BIOS, UEFI, or anything of that kind.
Earlier today I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my Acer Aspire V5-571 alongside Windows 10. (This laptop came with 8 pre-...
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Is ubuntu installation process removing my original UEFI partition?
I jut got my new computer with windows 10 installed in an SSD, also I want to install a Ubuntu as dual system on my HDD, I tried installing it several times and put the boot loader for ubuntu in ...
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Ubuntu installation on USB flash drive will not boot
Here's the partitioning I've done during Ubuntu install:
https://youtu.be/BcRnqqybMIQ
installing OS: Ubuntu 14.04 64bit AMD64
device: Asus x205ta
Ubuntu bootable USB drive created and BOOTIA32.EFI ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 installation on Asrock H77M UEFI, dual boot with windows 8.1 already installed
As the title says, I need to install ubuntu in dual boot with windows 8.1 on my home PC.
I knew that with UEFI partition table was written in GPT, but I found that the partition table on my hard ...
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How to boot Windows 7 with UEFI, when Ubuntu is installed on Asus Zenbook Prime?
I've tried two days now to get ubuntu AND windows 7 to dual boot...
What is the current status?
I have completely removed win 8 and installed ubuntu 13.04 to the whole SSD.
You may ask, why I have ...
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Disk partitions dissapear after installing Ubuntu
I have a 2TB HDD and first installed Windows 7 in a 1.8TB partition, leaving near 200 GB of unused disk to install Ubuntu in the future.
Yesterday I did that, creating 4 partitions:
512 MB Swap
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Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 can't detect windows or any other partitions(Asus z77 UEFI BIOS)
I've recently completed tinkering my new pc(motherboard ASUS z77 with UEFI BIOS) and unfortunately not everything works quite well.
After installing windows 7 ultimate on a single primary partition(...
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