Questions tagged [dual-boot]
Dual-boot is the process of having two (or more) operating systems installed on a computer, allowing one to be chosen during the boot process.
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After trying new distro, how to move grub back to original
This is probably a pretty common problem, but searching seems to find so many different situations and answers that complicate the process for the simple case. Perhaps there is a better way to avoid ...
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Grub2 on dual boot, boots windonws repair
I made a clean install of windows 10 in a acer nitro in a ssd new drive. Then, i installed Zorin OS. The dual boot is not working correctly. It shows Zorin, then 2 option of win system, one in the HDD ...
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change Windows partition from RO to RW at login
I'm have installed Devuan Daedalus in my friend's computer. It is a HP laptop with AMD RYZEN 3 and Radeon Graphics.
It has Windows 11 also installed. Windows partition has been shut down fully (not ...
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Systemd[1]: Freezing execution kali linux
When launching my pc and choose to start up my kali linux from the grub list It reach to the loading screen when the desktop environment appears it spontaneously freez and after seconds I get this ...
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NixOS fails to boot after install in dual boot
After installing NixOS via usb, in a separate partition of 80 GB, I boot through GRUB and get the following log:
:: running early hook [udev]
Starting systemd-udevd version 255.3-1-arch
:: running ...
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How to install Linux/GNU on Dell laptop? [closed]
I have recently bought this new Dell XPS 15 9570 laptop with Windows 11 Pro OS. However, Windows doesn't work very well. I would like to install Linux/GNU on it. If it is possible, I would keep ...
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Dual boot Archcraft with Windows 10
So, i have windows 10 as main os and want to dual boot with Archcraft distro. Created bootable usb with Rufus and allocate 40GB of my ssd which is windows installed. The problem is Archcraft doesnt ...
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I can no longer dual boot
My setup used to be a dual boot system with Pop OS and Windows 10, which are both on separate SSD drives. It worked fine and now I recently just changed from Pop OS to fedora. In the install procedure ...
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rEFInd "showtools" option not behaving properly
I've just installed Arch Linux alongside Windows, using the rEFInd boot manager to choose between them. Everything is working perfectly, except for the tools menu located below the main OS icons.
I ...
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Cant find Ubuntu on my dualboot
I have a computer with 2 hard drives. One has Windows installed on it. Now, I thought I would install Ubuntu on the other one. I chose the second one because it has significantly more space available. ...
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No Bootable Devices Found after deleting and recreating fat32 and linux-swap partitions to increase size of /home partition
I have a Dell G15 laptop with one factory OS already installed Windows 11 and I installed Pop OS more or less 1 hear and 6 months ago in dual boot with the default Windows. I was with only 10GB of ...
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Grub still can't detect CentOS install after update-grub in Ubuntu
I have an old PC (Dell Optiplex 990) that I'm trying to repurpose into a Linux machine to get more familiar with Linux.
I'm setting it up as a dual boot machine (Ubuntu 22.04, CentOS 7). The system is ...
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Grub does not see LinuxMint when dual boot Fedora 40 and LinuxMint 24 on external SSD
So I installed on my external SSD both LinuxMint 24 and Fedora 40. Here is how:
Partition table of SSD: GPT and split my SSD in 500GB Ext4 and 500GB empty
First installed LinuxMint on empty with ...
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Any OS selection runs Windows instead of selected OS
I installed ubuntu22 alongside windows11 on (Lenovo Ideapad3), while installing I selected "use ubuntu alongside windows". So I did it. But for some personal reason I deleted the grub from ...
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Windows 10 not found after installing Bliss OS
I have a problem similar to this one: Windows 10 disk not found when trying to boot from Grub
I installed BlissOS next to Windows 10. Booting BlissOS works but booting Windows results in error: Error: ...
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