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I am not able to boot into the Linux i have installed on my second nvme m.2 ssd

So i have a laptop with 2 ssds, both of them nvme. i have windows on one of them and have installed parrot OS 5.1 on the second nvme. whenever i choose the second ssd as my boot device my laptop ...
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Is there anyway to install Kali Linux into your external SSD, and make it bootable on M1 Chip Macbook Pro?

I am currently trying to install Kali Linux into my SSD card, and have it boot on M1 Chip macbook pro. Is there anyway to make that possible?
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Dualboot Pop!_os and win10 on two separate drives in a secure way

I want to use linux as my everyday os, I just need windows occasionally because I use an oculus rift and support isn´t great on linux yet. I have a SSD and a HDD on my laptop and I want to install ...
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How to transfer dual boot system to new SSD

My Toshiba Satellite L650-1PR laptop has been warning me for the past 4 days that its hard drive (750GB, SATA, 5400rpm HDD) is about to crash 'in less than 24 hours'. So I'm thinking of replacing it ...
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Grub recognizing but not booting windows

I'm running Manjaro 20 installed on a M.2 SSD (nvme0n1). And Windows is installed on a separate SSD (sdb). Booting into Linux from grub works perfectly, but when I want to boot into windows from grub ...
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Does Linux fstrim.service conflict with Windows 10 optimization?

I have the following disk setup, a dual-boot with Windows 10 and Linux Mint 19.3: NAME LABEL SIZE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT UUID sda 477G ...
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Migrate Dual-boot system from HDD to SSD

I've a dell laptop that has a 512 GB Hard Disk. It has windows and Linux installed in it. I am planning to buy an SSD of similar size(500 GB or 512 GB). How should I migrate my whole system(Windows+...
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How to transfer ubuntu 20.10 from HDD to SSD, i already have windows 10 installed on SSD

I have a 128 GB SSD in which Windows 10 is installed and Ubuntu is installed in a HDD. I want to install Ubuntu on the SSD without making any changes to Windows 10. Is there any way I can transfer ...
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Help with partitioning scheme for new Kubuntu dual boot

I have a 256 GB SSD and a 1TB HDD in my laptop. I want to dual-boot Kubuntu 20.04 with Windows 10. Please explain what exactly do /var and /tmp do, because I need to do some web developing and want to ...
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moving triple boot setup to larger SSD

I currently have a triple boot setup on my laptop, with Arch linux, Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04. Unfortunately, my SSD is only 256 GB and is suffering quite a bit now with low space on the windows C ...
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ata6.00: failed to set xfermode (err_mode=0x40) Gave up waiting for root file system device

I'm trying to get a working dual boot with Windows 10 (working) and Kali Linux (not working). After the "installation" (I'm not sure the term is correct), Kali was booting for the first boot and this ...
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Unable to switch between 2 OSs

I have 2 in my PC, a Samsung 970 EVO 500GB M.2 NVMe and a Samsung SATA SSD 860 EVO with 250 GB. Windows IS installed on my m.2 drive, and recently I installed Pop! _OS (an Ubuntu fork) on my SATA SSD. ...
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How to dual boot Fedora 30 along with Windows 10 in the same SSD boot drive?

I have a desktop with a 1 TB hard drive and a 240 GB SSD where the SSD is my boot drive (Windows 10 is installed in it already, with GPT partition in UEFI mode) and the hard drive is just a data drive....
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Why are there two home folders in my Ubuntu 18.04 installation?

I have successfully installed Ubuntu 18.04 along with Windows 10 on my computer (SSD 96GB + HDD 1TB). The SSD drive has two major partitions (excluding recovery and efi): Windows partition (...
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Tried to install debian on 2nd drive and now both drives are malfunctioning [closed]

I wanted to try Linux on my second SSD, so I downloaded the net install for debian. It would not connect to the DHCP, so I tried the full disk install. I used Rufus and UNetbootin to make an ...
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