I was trying to install the ubuntu 12.4 along side windows 7 on my new HP Pavilion 64k desktop with windows 7 computer but Ubuntu said that ( This computer has no detected operating system) and some one said (I suggest you chkdsk your Windows partition. I also suggest you resize the NTFS in WIndows then install Ubuntu to the free space.) Therefore…
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This is a 3 year-old system: HP a1640n. There have been no issues with it in the past. I added a video card 2 years ago, and more memory 1 year ago, both without issues. There haven't been any recent hardware changes. I did install Win7 in Oct., but there were no issues with that either.
I used the computer fine two nights ago, and turned it…
I have a dual boot system with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7, using GRUB2 (with Burg) as boot loader.
For some reason, the Windows installation shows up twice in the boot menu:
Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic
Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic (recovery mode)
Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)
Windows 7 (loader) (on…
I have a dual boot system with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7, using GRUB2 (with Burg) as boot loader.
For some reason, the Windows installation shows up twice in the boot menu:
Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic
Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic (recovery mode)
Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)
Windows 7 (loader) (on…
I have used universal usb installer on my HP probook 2000 on my Kingston data traveler (8GB). When I boot I select to boot from USB and then click on Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, I get to the partition part, but there is no option to keep existing Windows and dual boot. I only have Erase entire disk and something else. How can I get this…
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I've just installed Ubuntu on my PC and now it doesn't start unless I change the boot priority, if boot priority is my HD then it doesn't start and if boot priority is my pen-drive then it starts. If I remove my pen-drive, the system keep working normal, but if a…
I have shut down my computer two hours ago. When I open my computer it started restarting itself after showing the POST screen. I can open my computer with a Ubuntu Live CD or Windows installation CD. I can also open and boot my computer with my second drive, so I think something is wrong with my primary hard drive.
Do you have any…
I've tried everything but I can't get MacBook 1,1 (which was running leopard) to boot os x after installing windows 7. I had the drivers for windows in a .pkg file and didnt realise it won't install them in windows. I am totally stuck with a half usefull windows system, any help would be greatly appricatet. Note: I've tried every…
I have a vaio laptop and it used to have installed windows 8 and Xubuntu 13.04 in dual boot, everything was working fine.
I decided to update my version of xubuntu 14.04 LTS mainly because the support for 13.04 is finished and LTS version have 3 years of support. What I did was to format the partition where xubuntu 13.04 was…
I have a Gateway GT5220 I'm troubleshooting. It is, in fact, the machine I just gave my father for his birthday a couple months ago. (Prior to that, it was my home PC. My home PC is now the MacBook on which I'm writing this.)
Before going any further, I suspect that the answer will be, "It's worse than that, it's dead, Jim,…
When trying to boot from a boot USB drive I got the message, "Vesamenu.c32:Not a com32r image." I was trying to boot a fairly new Toshiba laptop with a Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS created USB boot. I re-created the USB drive with 11.04 and it booted fine. These were both 32 bit versions even though the laptop is a 64 bit.
I was…
I installed 11.10 in dual-boot mode following instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation
Everything worked fine, until I recently updated from Mac OS 10.6.x to the latest 10.6.x (this was a minor update prompted by OS X). The update made the rEFIt screen disappear,…
I just bought my dad a new laptop for fathers day, a Sony Vaio S 15 (the latest models from Sony) and he wants to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7. I put Ubuntu 12.04 on a USB drive and went to install it on the computer, but when I got into the partition part of the install there was no option to dual boot. Only to…
I was installing ubuntu on pendrive and once finished I needed to run windows a bit, even though I chose erase and install ON THE PENDRIVE it altered my hdd boot sector
When I remove the ubu cd and pendrive it should only boot from hdd (windows) but it gives
Error: no such device : blablabla(numerbes and…
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I had Ubuntu 12.04 Beta installed on my computer. When 12.04 was finally released, I made a bootable USB Flash Drive using Startup Disk Creator.
Then I decided to check if this drive works properly and to reinstall the system on my desktop. I must add, my desktop behaves a bit…
Whenever I boot my laptop, I see this message and it makes the boot process very slow as my screen stays black for a long time before this message appears.
It shows just for a split second but today It got worst when my system couldn't boot and stuck on this error, I did several reboots but still couldn't…
Ubuntu is installed on a 32 gigabyte flash-drive and it successfully booted every time up until I partitioned my hard-drive and installed Windows as a secondary boot (for programming reasons).
Now every time I attempt to boot the Ubuntu flash-drive it boots into Windows XP. The same goes for partitions,…
I'm attempting to install 12.04 on my computer but booting from my USB drive results in a blank screen. This has happened since 10.04 and has always been fixed by putting nomodeset in the boot command, but now I can't access the boot options with F6 for some reason. How can I access the boot options?
I…
On my old laptop (legacy BIOS, MBR disk), this was perfectly possible to get working:
I turn on the computer and see the Windows Boot Manager
I use EasyBCD (or BootPart, or something else) to add an option to the BCD menu which allows me to boot into GRUB, and then into Ubuntu
I can't figure how to…
I've recently discovered Ubuntu and decided to give it a try.
I am using a Samsung Series 5 p530u3c-ad1 which comes with a 24gb SSD and a ~500gb HDD, My intention is to set the system files to the ssd and the rest to the HDD.
The system works fine if I do a direct install using only the HDD, but if I…
I followed the instructions for the Ubuntu windows installer on my Sony Vaio laptop (model SVT131A11M). Upon restart I was prompt to choose the OS for boot (Win7 or Ubuntu), but then I shut down the machine and from the next boot, every time I choose to boot into Ubuntu, the GNU GRUB terminal appears…
I'm using a new SSD with nothing on it. It's installed via USB drive, and boots from USB as well. While in Ubuntu I can see the SSD and other devices. When I install from the desktop (have tried from the boot screen as well), system restarts. It takes me to the boot screen, select boot from first…
I'd like to skip the entire Grub 2 interface, where I have to decide booting Linux or Windows
im running linux ubuntu lastest version (14.04.1 LTS) and windows 8.1 both 64 bit versions.
I've installed easyBCD software, which I want to use as (my only) boot manager.
Issue:
whenever I…