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Incomplete mode parameter data not critical error every time I boot up
Every time I boot up I see the same error message
/dev/sdc refers to my brother printer
/dev/sda3 is my Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Linux Filesystem.
I have run sudo fdisk -l. Relevant results are below.
I ...
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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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Ubuntu 24.04 installation error
My Laptop has two hard disks, SSD and HDD, the SSD with 256GB has Windows installation, and the HDD with 1TB is divided into two partitions D and F, each of which has nearly half.
I noticed that the ...
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Cannot boot after Ubuntu 24.04 recovery mode
Please help me saving my data on my hard drive. And please excuse me as I'm not an expert in Ubuntu but can follow instructions.
I have a lenovo ideapad 330 with 1 tera hdd that have dual boot of ...
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What is the best tool to make an identical, possibly bit by bit copy of a Linux system SSD with all the partitions and boot menu etc.?
Kubuntu 22.04. I in the process of learning that not having a backup is a super bad idea.
The SSD I use to run the Linux system is this.
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 ...
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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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Migrate an Ubuntu installation to a new Dual Boot?
I want to upgrade the hard drive of my laptop a Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3, it has a 500Gb with a Ubuntu installation that I use to work but I needed more memory, so I bought a 1Tb 2.5 SSD since the ...
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Ubuntu not booting after hard drive failure
I have a 4yo Lenovo IdeaFlex5 running Ubuntu 23.10, with umis rpjtj512mee1owx storage (some say it's SSD, but in ubuntu it was always /dev/nvme... so NVMe). It worked perfectly fine until it froze out ...
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How to clone a specific partition of a qemu raw disk file to a physical partition
I have a raw disk file as bellow
$fdisk -l Monterey.img
Disk Monterey.img: 14 GiB, 15032385536 bytes, 29360128 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes /...
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Ubuntu 22.04 wont boot after disk clone
I am attempting to migrate my OS boot disk from a 512GB to a 1TB drive. I booted off a live USB and used dd to clone the orignal drive to the new drive. Then I shut it down and unplugged the old ...
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Unknown error while mounting an external USB device
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS on my laptop. I was copying some folders from an external USB device into my Windows virtual machine. The process stuck unexpectedly, the mouse was blocked as well ...
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How can I install old HDD with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption from old PC hardware(Intel) to new PC hardware(AMD)
I had an old PC (Intel) with a HDD encrypted with Ubuntu 20.04 full disk encryption. Unfortunately, the hardware failed. Thankfully, the HDD seems intact. So I bought a new AMD-based PC (new CPU, new ...
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Disk cloning and bootability
I recently purchased a new laptop that comes pre-installed with Windows. However, my intention is to erase the Windows installation entirely and replace it with Ubuntu, as I've always done with my ...
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Why is there a 20-30 second pause early in the boot cycle after cloning my hard drive?
I've seen a few other posts on this topic. Only one or two were very close to my situation, but there were no clear solutions. I would like to describe my situation specifically because I have some ...
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Boot Device Not Found... HP probook 4530s
I installed the last version of Ubuntu on my hard drive by suppressing all data previously on the hard drive... Everything went fine, but when I turn on my PC, there is a BOOT DEVICE NOT found, Hard ...
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Recover Data from unmounted nvme
To give a context:
Since ~10 months I used to start my Ubuntu by going inside grub and write as follow:
set root=(hd0,gpt3)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.19.1-051901-generic root=/dev/nvme0n1p3
initrd /boot/...
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Error Upgrading HDD to SSD
I am having difficuties installing Ubuntu OS in a new SSD upgraded in an old Dell E6530.
the error would always occur when it says "executing curtin install partinioning step" and start ...
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How to fix "Failed to start System Login Service"?
I recently expanded the virtual hard drive of my virtual machine running ubuntu. I then saw that before that storage was available to me, I needed to expand the partition of the hard drive. First, I ...
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Failure writing sector 0x13407f8 to hd0 - how to check disks if they are not yet accessible?
I cannot boot Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Lenovo Thinkpad after a reboot given with the REISUB sequence.
Error message on initial black screen is "error: Failure writing sector 0x13407f8 to hd0": ...
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Booting from an SSD clone of a hard disk on Ubuntu?
I want to replace my hard drive on a Ubuntu NUC system. Its the only drive and its connected by a USB sata adapter.
I did this once already by just cloning to another hard drive, and the replacement ...
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Unable to allocate memory for my Ubuntu installation
I want to dual boot Ubuntu so in that I have to assign disk space of around 50GB in the unallocated section as shown below.
I have a PC with 1TB storage out of which the C: drive has 721GB space ...
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20.04 boot & app load time?
I've progressed from 16.04 to 20.04 & I'm happy except boot & app load times have increased with each upgrade. My SW is fully up to date. I have questions:
Would a fresh install of 20.04 ...
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Lenovo laptop running Ubuntu 22.04 is not booting after low storage warning
I've been running Ubuntu 22.04 in a Lenovo laptop for a couple of months now, and I got a low storage warning yesterday. A few hours later I tried to copy a file into a USB storage device, and for ...
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My hard disk with Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop installed does not boot when I restart my PC
I'm in a bit of a mess here, I recently formatted my hard drive and installed Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop on it. After the installation I restarted my PC but it never boots up the installed Ubuntu 23.04 and ...
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My 1TB Internal Hard Disk lost 500GB partition ubuntu after deleted during windows installation
First, I've using Ubuntu. And then I try install Windows 10. When Windows required specific drive accidentally I format Ubuntu drive, and I also deleted it.
What makes me more fool is, I also assumed ...
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Ubuntu doesn't start when hard drive is plugged in
About a week ago i was tinkerin around and created a bootable linux drive on an USB. I was able to switch to the usb and back to windows without any problems. But after some time neither linux nor ...
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Discovering disks order
I Installed Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS on a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 server.
The server has 2 volumes (disks):
lshw -c disk
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
product: RAID 940-8i 4GB
vendor:...
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Just 212 GB Can be found out of 1 TB in my Ubuntu server 22.04.2
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04.2. I was using Windows 10 previously. During installation, I chose to Erase all options to delete all my Windows files.
Image here
I have a 1 TB hard disk but after ...
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How to bypass "RUN fsck MANUALLY" boot error [duplicate]
By bypass I mean automatically just do it even if it causes file problems. The long and short here is that I have about 60 headless servers running Camera systems with 4-8 drives in them spread out ...
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Trying to restore Drive that I accidentally used DD on
I was attempting to use the DD command to create a bootable Ubuntu server USB. By accident, I ran the command to my boot drive. It ran for a few minutes, then I noticed and pressed control+z to halt ...
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Install from USB failed to write HDD
I am trying to install Ubuntu LTS version on an old HP Probook. I downloaded the ISO file from the Ubuntu.com website. Then used Rufus to create a bootable USB and ran the install. All seemed to be ...
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Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS installer crashing with secondary drive plugged in via USB
I have a laptop with a completely unreadable LCD panel but completely functioning internals. I had previously tried to install Ubuntu server directly onto the device using an HDMI display but UEFI did ...
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Moving Ubuntu Hard drive to another computer - Black Screen on boot
I have been having a very difficult time trying to install Ubuntu 23.04 on a Super Micro Opteron system with 4 processors each with 16 cores 64 cores total, and 256GB of Ram. The USB goes to a black ...
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Installing ubuntu on two drives: ssd and hdd
I have a desktop (8 GiB RAM) and installed Ubuntu in the standard way (erase disk and install Ubuntu - nothing else ;-)). But it kept booting in windows... finally - as a newbie - I understand the ...
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How to Uninstall Ubuntu from my Secondary Disk to Install it in my Primary Disk?
The context: recently, I started collaborating on a open-source project whose main application runs in Linux. I have a Notebook with a small SSD (128Gb) and a HD (1Tb) and I have always used Windows. ...
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systemct1 status plymouth-start.service
Alright so I am having a laptop issue & my one is in the shop getting on 7 weeks now, so a couple weeks back I bought a cheap one from a pawnbrokers & that crashed after the first update that ...
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how to install Ubuntu 20.04.3 on the second disk while the second disk already has windows installed on it [duplicate]
My device has 2 harddisks (ssd + windows and hdd) on the hdd I want to install ubuntu, I already tried to install it from usb (set it up with rufus, parameters: partition scheme - MBR, target system - ...
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Failed to start thermal deamon service and Failed to start CUPS service. Failed: READ FPDMA queued
I am getting a couple of error/failed messages while starting Ubuntu. It was working fine, but suddenly it got shutdown. When I restarted it was taking time, but it was not able to start and then ...
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Possible hdd problem
Yesterday afternoon, I dropped my laptop on the floor, I went to turn it on and I noticed that my Ubuntu won't boot. I went through the boot selection of the BIOS itself and I realize that my HD does ...
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My HDD not showing up in Ubuntu(22.10)
Hi I'm very new to Ubuntu, and I tried searching for this problem but couldn't find any suitable solution.
I have two disks in my machine. I wiped windows and installed Ubuntu. I didn't do anything ...
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External HDD with Ubuntu boots in emergency mode
I recently installed Ubuntu on my 500GB external HDD with my Acer Aspire laptop from a live USB, the installation was successful (even installed grub on the external HDD) and I could boot from the ...
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Wrong disk size after failed partitioning
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and wanted to use a live USB stick to partition my hard drive. While partitioning something went wrong and my computer crashed. After restart it shows me that 70 percent of the ...
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Nvme drive is booted from a sata drive where the grub.conf points to the nvme, does the sata drive require updating
The computer is a Dell Precision T-7600 single boot desktop with Ubuntu 22.04 on a nmve drive mounted to a card slot. This drive is not recognized as a bootable drive so there is sata drive also ...
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What is the disk-symbol in Disks
When iI try to boot with an USB-disk connected it's try to boot that disk. I have checked with Gparted that the partition/disk, don't have a boot-flag, but in Disks, the disk have a symbol, that look ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu on two hard drives
I currently have a laptop running Windows with two drives, the Windows 11 drive and a clean drive. I would like to dual boot my laptop with these two drives, one for Windows and the other one for ...
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Clean Installation with manual partitioning
I have a PC with a Fusion Drive(128 GB SSD and 1TB HDD). On my PC, /home folder is also in SSD. So my SSD will fill up soon and HDD will stay blank 😞, thus I decided to re-install ubuntu with manual ...
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I can't boot from a hard drive on usb
My Samsung laptop came with a hard drive and I installed Ubuntu on it. Now I upgraded for a SSD that I also installed Ubuntu. I want to be able to boot from the hard drive through the USB so I can ...
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How do I programmatically mount zfs at boot?
I encrypted my hard drive with zfs, running ubuntu 22.04.
I'm an idiot and forgot my password. However, I'm pretty confident that it is contained in a list of ~300 passwords that I know.
When I boot, ...
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wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error
I'm getting this error after trying to mount a flashdrive/usb partition and not sure why. I've tried different USBs for the system but all to no avail, hoping someone on here could help me figure it ...
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Can I install ubuntu on my ssd and make the /home and /usr directory in the HDD that contains previous data?
I want to switch to Ubuntu. I have one SSD (120 GB) and one HDD (1TB). I want to keep all the data of HDD and install the Ubuntu in SSD (only os) but I want to make the directory /home and /usr ...
