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Grub menu advanced options entries are cut off
My default Kernel is not working anymore with my graphic hardware. But I can succeed with an older Kernel from advanced options. Unfortunately the entries for older Kernels all look the same, so I ...
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Kubuntu 24.04 fresh install not loading hardware drivers properly
EDIT || FIXED :
I'm terribly sorry... looks like i didn't (as i should have) double-check on Suse Tumbleweed properly as it wasn't pointing to the latest kernel yet(6.8.0-36-generic).
Just updated ...
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I messed up trying to install linux mint [closed]
I wanted to install linux mint just for fun but encountered some issues that dont matter for now.
However, I did get the live USB on and my friend was leading me to install it
However, he told me to ...
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I formatted the /boot/efi partition to upgrade Lubuntu and now I can't boot Windows
I have read several threads regarding this problem, but I can't solve mine.
Background
I wanted to upgrade my Lubuntu 20.04 to 22.04. My /boot/efi-partition's size was 150 MB and was working perfectly,...
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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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Booting from usb and back to basic ubuntu
So i wil describe everything so hopefully someone can help me.
So basically on my pc ubuntu is installed and runs automatically by booting up my pc. But I made a bootable USB drive to boot Kali and ...
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Trying to repair an Ubuntu grub
Tried to install Ubuntu on an external drive. Took several attempts and eventually got it installed on sdb/sdb1. Unfortunately at some point grub has also been written to the internal hard drive (SDA? ...
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Problem booting just installed Ubuntu 24.04 on PCI-e adapter M2 SSD
Cheers
I have old mobo with intel z77 chipset and there no M2 slot for NVMe, so I use PCI-e slot adapter to connect Samsung M2 SSD with mobo. Also I have SATA SSD attached to regular SATA connector.
I ...
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Kubuntu 24.04 LTS doesn't boot right after install. Grub option allows boot but breaks brightness and night color control. Intel integrated graphics
OS: Kubuntu 24.04 LTS
Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad 3 17IAU7
Hardware: running lspci command returns:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-U15 Host and DRAM Controller (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA ...
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grub does not detect encrypted boot partition
ubuntu is 22.04. boot is encrypted with luks1. encrypted boot partition is luk1 created with cryptsetup luksFormat and is detected with ubuntu disks utility and cryptsetup and can be mapped and ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 on Thinkpad-E560 doesn't shutdown properly
I recently bought an SSD, Installed ubuntu 24.04 from a bootable pendrive. Following the standard partition schema offered by the installer wizard. Then I noticed that my computer didn't shutdown ...
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boot partition encrypted and not detected by grub
I have ubuntu installed with boot unecrypted and root encrypted. To get boot encrypted, I have created 4GB new boot partition encrypted and copied everything from first plain boot partition. For grub, ...
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Ubuntu Dual Boot Installation : Not Detecting Hard Drive or Partitions
I have a PC with an SSD having windows and an Hard Drive for data. The Hard Drive had three partitions, F, G and one partition with ubuntu on it.
Okay so I was using ubuntu Jammy Jelly Fish (22.04) ...
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create new EFI partition on Ubuntu
I have dual-booted Windows and Ubuntu 22.04. My Windows has a 100MB EFI partition. I don't want to install the Ubuntu boot files on it. So, I created a separate EFI partition via the Ubuntu installer. ...
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How to access recovery mode from setup
I'm trying to boot up my ubuntu machine, but i believe the driver has been corrupted. I've tried finding a recovery mode in the BIOS after pressing ESC during start up. The only thing that shows is &...
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error during boot process
I get this error during the boot process to Ubuntu, after showing this error my PC restarts and it either opens Ubuntu or it show this error:
After showing this it again restarts and then it opens up ...
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Is it possible to make grub import a grub.cfg file and load it?
Imagine the scenario:
You are at the grub prompt for any failure reason (example a USB stick made only for BIOS and you are on EFI). This USB stick is correct and has some accessible disks to run ...
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Ubuntu installer not working for legacy
Yeah, so im trying to install Ubuntu for my legacy bios device, but Ubuntu forcefully tries to install in uefi, even after i changed the boot settings to bios in rufus its the same issue. And i tried ...
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GRUB Does not detect Windows 11
Grub in ubuntu 24.04 does not see Windows 11, os-prober also does not find anything. Output of sudo fdisk -l: https://pastebin.com/0KTfUd9S
Windows is installed on /dev/nvme0n1p1, ubuntu on /dev/sda.
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Ubuntu Installation Resulted in "No Bootfile Found" Error on ProBook 4530s
I recently attempted to install Ubuntu 24.XX LTS alongside Windows on my ProBook 4530s laptop. Initially, Ubuntu installation seemed successful, but upon rebooting, I encountered a "no bootfile ...
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Deleted grub partition, is my Windows partition still bootable?
(Ubuntu 23.10, Windows 10 dual boot) While switching Linux distros for the first time I was having a lot of issues and accidentally deleted the grub partition that allowed me to dual boot.
Is it still ...
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PC turns on but won't boot up, can't access BIOS
The computer: Dell Precision T7910
The problem: the computer was running Ubuntu 18.04 and I wanted to make it double boot so I followed this steps: How to Install Ubuntu Alongside Windows 10, where I ...
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Grub Menu not showing after clean installation of Windows 11
So , I dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11. Today I made a clean installation of Windows 11 , due to some issues. Before that whenever I turn on my pc, it shows the Grub Menu, where I ...
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How to make a given kernel line default on Ubuntu 20.04?
I have two kernel "flavors" installed on my Ubuntu 20.04 system: linux-generic and linux-generic-hwe-20.04.
$ dpkg -l | grep linux-generic | grep '^ii'
ii linux-generic ...
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How to fix boot though grub> and initramfs> command prompts?
First signs something was wrong : a file wouldn't save and a browser bookmark was not recorded.
du -h
Said the partition was 100% full. I didn't think that was true, but I deleted 4 full-feature ...
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grub, bless problems on dual boot Mac OS Sonoma 14.5 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
I am in the process of setting up an old iMac with a dual boot OCLP install of Mac OS 14.5 Sonoma and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
I am at the stage of getting grub working properly but am encountering errors.
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Booting into recovery mode turns my screen into "Braille" hieroglyphs?
I am running a Ubuntu 22.04 with LUX full disk encryption in a VM. I just finished configuring GRUB to require a password using this answer, and to only require a password when changing settings using ...
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Ubuntu Grub still can't detect CentOS install after update-grub
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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Newer headers not booting with Gigabyte motherboard
I have a Gigabyte B450m, and the latest header files will not load past boot. Does anybody have the same issue?
Newer header doesn't work:
Older header version works:
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Ubuntu boots ok if choosing boot drive after pressing F11, otherwise hangs at "Loading initial ramdisk"
I've already drained over two weeks on this rack server that had been failing to boot. After trying many things (memory test, re-clone drive, reinstalling OS, upgrading BIOS, switching UEFI vs legacy ...
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Setting a Single User Password on Ubuntu 20.04 EC2 Image
I have an AWS EC2 FIPS compliant 20.04 instance, I have applied the DISA STIGS to this instance, except for one. Every time I set the password for Single User mode I am no longer able to boot the ...
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Ubuntu doesn't power off completely
I am running ubuntu 24.04 and when I click the poweroff button top right corner, it doesn't fully shutdown. The screen goes off but the power light is still on and it seems to be still running because ...
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Kernel panic for normal booting, but boots ok if chosen after pressing F11, or add nosmp=1 in kernel param
[updated: May 19, 2024]
I just encountered an extremely strange problem -
one of my Ubuntu rack server gives me a kernel panic error when booting the OS on the installed NVME drive (/dev/nvme0n1) as ...
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Grub rescue mode after formatting Linux Mint partition
I wanted to remove Linux Mint and replace the space left after by extending Ubuntu into it, and so I did through Windows 10. I believe that lead me to mess up big time as I can't edit Linux partitions ...
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Xubuntu on MacBook2,1 2006 boots to grub tty
I’m trying to install xubuntu 22.04 LTS on my MacBook2,1 from 2006. I followed these steps to get the usb booting: Installing ubuntu 20.04 on MacBook 2,1 (2007) (couldn’t do step 3 and so on because ...
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Ubuntu won't boot when plugged in
I installed Ubuntu (currently Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS) a few months ago on my Dell Precision 5570. When the power cord is disconnected, either the USB C that came with the laptop or a docking station, the ...
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Booting from encrypted disk image on USB drive
I'd like to make a USB drive on which I can store a number of liveCDs (ubuntu installer for example).
So far, I'm able to select an ISO in Grub, and boot from it.
What I'd like to do is either:
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"Reset System" when dual booting Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with TPM on
hope you're all well!
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad E15 Gen4 with 2 SSDs (let's name them Primary and Secondary). On Primary I have a Windows 11 that came preinstalled with the laptop, the Secondary was ...
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Move /boot/efi and /boot to a separate disk
I would like to encrypt my root partition with the help of luks. For that I am thinking to move my boot partition to a smaller disk.
My current layout of the disk is:
$ lsblk -f
/dev/sdc
|-/dev/sdc1
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Ubuntu: cannot boot with USB
I had Ubuntu installed on a separate disk from my Windows. The disk had both the Ubuntu and the grub. I deleted it directly from the Windows disk manager because I wanted to re-install Ubuntu. But ...
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os-prober will not detect windows at all
I have a computer with ubuntu22 and windows 10 installed in seperate ssd disks, and I have used dual boot feature for a while. However after reinstalling the ubuntu 22, I have lost ability to boot to ...
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Boot iso from android Data partition
I want to install Ubuntu, but my device does not have any ports. It is a x86 Android tablet (Lenovo Yoga tablet 2), It has 16GB of SSD and an Intel Atom (baytrail?) Z3745 processor.
Usually to install ...
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Why is my BIOS not detecting the hard drive where is Ubuntu installed?
I have an acer travel mate laptop with windows and I wanted to also have Ubuntu, so I downloaded the 22.04.3 image and used rufus to make a booteable USB. Then I proceed with the instalation in one of ...
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GRUB_TIMEOUT=3 # Ignored?
Newly installed Ubuntu 24.04, I'm in the process of adapting it to my liking...
One thing is to delay minimally at the grub menu, though always show it.
Hope the info below can tell what might be ...
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Ubuntu persistently boots into error with blinking character. Ctrl+Alt+F(1-6) works only sometimes
About a week ago I installed a new SSD Ubuntu 22.04. While also dual booting it with another SSD containing Windows 11.
Shortly after I began having issues at boot with an error and blinking character....
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Boot problem: black screen after grub menu
When i switch on the pc I have automatically the Grub menu. If i click on "Advanced options" I can use Linux 6.4.0-28 and 6.4.0.34. if i boot with the first one it doesn't give me problems, ...
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How to remove “error: failure writing sector … to hd0” warning when booting Ubuntu 22.04.3 read-only using overlayroot on write-protected hardware?
I am trying to boot Ubuntu 22.04.3 read-only using overlayroot on write-protected hardware such as Kanguru Solutions WP-KFT3-32G flash drives.
I do following to make sure disk is read-only (meaning ...
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Black screen on boot: can I use 24.04 without permanent "nomodeset"
I have a HP 17-cp1147ng notebook from the end of 2022.
I've just installed Kubuntu 24.04 on it.
I get a black screen after the HP logo on starting up (first time).
I followed this advice (section &...
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When I start my PC then GRUB 2.12 is showing. How can I fix it?
When I start my PC then GRUB 2.12 is showing. How can I fix it ?
GNU GRUB version 2.12
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Create autoinstaller for Lubuntu doesn't work
am trying to create an autoinstaller for Lubuntu iso. i have created the below files:
xfile.preseed
adjusted the grub.cfg file accordingly .
here is my preseed file:
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