General :: Any Way To Stop Dual Boot In BIOS?

Apr 12, 2010

What is the procedure to stop dual boot up in your BIOS on Linux?

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Ubuntu Installation :: XP Dual Boot With 10.10 After Upgrade The BIOS On Motherboard

Dec 12, 2010

I reinstalled XP to do a dualboot with 10.10 yesterday. All was fine. Today I went through and installed everything windows needed, and everything seemed fine. Then I upgraded the BIOS on my motherboard, and suddenly everything isn't fine. I can boot to Ubuntu just fine. But when I select Windows from the GRUB menu, it just sits there with a cursor on the screen now.

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Ubuntu Installation :: Dual Boot Conflict Exacerbated By BIOS Trauma?

Feb 6, 2010

i am using an USB keyboard and mouse. This is awkward because I cannot select which OS to boot from, etc.Also, cannot access BIOS to potentially turn on the legacy USB function. We do not have a ps/2 keyboard, and believe me, I looked. I acquired a usb to ps/2 adaptor: Still no joy. Also, the keyboard doesn't work within the virtual Ubuntu, while it did when connected without the adaptor. Getting my hands on a ps/2 keyboard is not an option. To get into Ubuntu, I had to, within Windows, tell the computer that the Live CD was a bootable drive, so that it would be the first option over Windows, and therefore the automatic selection when I didn't (couldn't) make one.

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This leads me into the Ubuntu 9.10 install, where I am told Ubuntu is already on the computer (half of the hard drive, with Windows XP on the 2nd half), and I can either install 9.10 beside it, or replace it. If I choose to replace it, 9.10 takes over the entire 40 GB. Part of the problem is that the partition that Ubuntu is apparently on is /dev/sda1, and Windows XP is /dev/sda2, but within the Palimpsest Disk Utility:


20 GB File System
NTFS File System
Partition 1 (HPFS/NTFS (0x07))
/dev/sda1
20 GB File Unrecognized
Unrecognized
Partition 2 (Linux (0x83))
/dev/sda2

So I'm worried that if I install 9.10 in /dev/sda1 like it wants me to, I'll be losing XP.

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Ubuntu :: Need To Make System Stop Updating BIOS Clock To UTC Time

Jan 22, 2011

I have Ubuntu 10.04.1 32bit installed on my flash drive so wherever I go I can have my own mini personal computer, but one problem I'm having is every computer it is run on the next time it's rebooted to the OS on the hard drive it has UTC time instead of the actual time for the timezone you're in that Windows uses. So is their a way I can make Ubuntu not automatically change the clock to what it wants?

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General :: Bios Flash Boot Floppy

Apr 4, 2011

I am trying to flash my bios but they only supply an exe or a floppy image. obviosly I am not running windows to run the exe and I dont have a floppy drive. So I have been trying to copy the floppy image to a cd with little success.Size of boot image is 2884 sectors -> genisoimage: Error - boot image 'F1B.IMG' has not an allowable size.The way I understand it thats 4 sectors over the 1.44Mb floppy size? Is there a way I continue anyway? Seeing that I will be putting it on a cd I cant see that the size is going to matter

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General :: Unable To Boot Beyond BIOS Screen

Apr 19, 2011

I dual booted my system with Linux Mint on a Windows 7 operating platform. I later thought it would be better to use Ubunta as I am a newbie to the system and there is more help available. I tried to uninstall Linux Mint through Windows but I am not sure I did. I then installed Ubunta from a CD and the whole system crashed. I am now unable to boot beyond the BIOS screen and am using Ubunta CD to access the internet. I would be grateful if you could shed any light on what has happened. Unfortunately I have no separate boot up disc.

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General :: Cannot Boot, Black Screen After Bios Post?

Apr 6, 2011

I installed a Raid 2+0 a couple of days ago with windows 7, and everything was working fine until today. I left my computer for a couple of hours and when i came back all i see is this black screen with a blinking cursor, then i tried everything on the bios but every time i tried to boot it kept stuck there, right after the bios POST.Then i tried changing the SATA ports, that was something that fixed similar problems on my old Mobo, but this is strange because this mobo has 1 week, and the HD's (2x seagate 500gb) have 2 days, so they should be fine.

Then i tried with my ubuntu lucid lynx live cd, it has saved my life many times, it always works flawlessly and i thought i could use it to restore the boot files, but i was very surprised when it failed as well, it pops a message saying something like "invalid user pwsuid "user: unknown"{0}". Tried it many times with no luck, only that same message...Now i managed to boot from a "slitaz" linux dist. thats about 30mb, it has many useful tools.I can see the partitions/HD's on the Gparted and mount applications, but i still i havent managed to mount the raid i had on my Windows 7 install, im a bit scared of losing data, and i dont even know how to do it.Is there any way to fix thisrom the slitaz live cd?Maybe i could mount the Raid and then restore the Boot files from the slitaz live cd? I have a windows image i could use on the Raid, and i could copy the image files to a partition, make it primary, active and bootable...I really dont know, maybe that wont help either because the ubuntu live cd couldnt boot, i really dont know what whats going on and what could be the cause of this... maybe a worm/virus

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General :: Use Kernel To Circumvent Dumb Bios And Get Machine To Boot

Apr 28, 2010

I don't know about you, but I have found the linux kernel to read pretty much any usb drive or sd card, while many bioses, especially, when they are older fail miserably. Now if you got yourself a machine which bios cannot boot from your 16 giga stick, wouldn't it be possible to use linux as kind of a bootstrap, install it on a 1 giga medium, that the bios can boot from and then when the linux kernel is running, give control to the other media that you really want to boot from. This should be doable.

It is basically going from a running kernel and its inird to give control over to another grub or syslinux. Does anybody know if this exists already? Truth is that many bioses are just garbage, old and fail at pretty much all new hardware, so why not use a linux kernel as a crutch, to get away from this old piece of junk? I did similar things already with a software raid, where i had a machine that couldn't boot from a HD that was larger than 150 giga.

I installed a 10 gb HD to put /boot on it and then give control over to some "fancy 21st century technology that can boot from this HUUUGE disks" (as from my dripping from sarcasm voice you can tell that pretty much all BIOSes are a thorn in my side and a P.I.T.A. for me, too often they only do 30% of what I expect them to)

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General :: Grub Settings And Boot Order - BIOS Getting Reset

Dec 18, 2009

Is there some workaround by changing grub settings other than rewiring the hard disks or changing in bios..
1. my bios is getting reset (low battery)
2. my hard disks are sata and ide, so the ide one is loaded as hd1 by default, cudn't find any way to change that..

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General :: Boot An SD Card On A Notebook That Does Not Have BIOS Support For Booting From The SD Slot?

Feb 9, 2011

I'm trying to boot an SD card on a notebook that does not have BIOS support for booting from the SD slot. Using various how-to's I've figured out how to add additional SD card modules to the initrd.img file on a bootable USB drive such that I can boot Linux installed on the SD card.

However, best I can tell, it loads the kernel and initrd.img from the USB and everything else from the SD card. What I really want is to load the necessary SD modules from the USB and then chainload the SD card such that whatever kernel is on the SD card is loaded instead. Is it possible to chainload to another bootable device after the kernel (with the SD module additions) has already been loaded?

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OpenSUSE Hardware :: Dual BIOS - Some Files On USB Cannot Be Deleted

Aug 15, 2010

I still have my bios problem that about very 3 boot I have to re-flush the Bios (have dual bios). Whilst this is a workaround ...it is @#$%.
The question is: Does the OS write any thing into the bios? And does the bios interrogates the running system and makes assumptions for the next reboot.? Some files on the USB stick can't be deleted. Even with root permission. I reformatted the usb stick.

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Ubuntu Networking :: LG P1 Express Dual - Nothing On BIOS About Wireless

Feb 17, 2010

Recently I installed ubuntu in my LG P1 express dual laptop, and got it working with the sound, webcam, and LAN. It took me a while, but I have learned a lot. The thing is, I cannot manage to set up wireless networking working. For what I read and discovered, it has to do with an internal RF switch that deactivates the wifi card. On windows, one may switch it on or off with fn+F6. However, that is not working on linux. How to access and change this switch with a command or something?

Nothing on BIOS about wireless. When I do
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sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep -i wireless

I get:
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Feb 17 20:08:34 XXXXX kernel: [27.889915] iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Feb 17 20:08:34 XXXXX kernel: [29.163795] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.

On doing: iwconfig, it reads:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
So no wlan0 is listed.

However with "sudo lshw -C network" the network is there and the driver is loaded
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: ET-131x PCI-E Ethernet Controller
vendor: Agere Systems
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02 .....

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General :: Boot A Cdrom From A Mobile USB Cdrom (old Bios, Without Usb Boot)?

Aug 29, 2010

I have been trying plop floppy to boot a bootable cdrom from a mobile USB cdrom reader, but the usb cdrom are not recognized.I was thinking that with grub or grub2 or syslinux that would be possible, no ?

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General :: Grub2: Stop FS Check At Boot?

Feb 9, 2011

I'm using debian testing with grub2. Is there a way to stop the FS check at boot (something like ctrl-c) after the check has started and continue with the boot process as usual?.

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Ubuntu :: Slow Boot Time - Boot To Bios And Then The Screen Goes Black With A Blinking Cursor

Oct 14, 2010

I've got two laptops running Ubuntu. Both have had Lucid installed from the live cd. I have upgraded one of them to Maverick. Both distributions are running great after they boot up, but I haven't experienced any faster boot times with either distibution. Both boot to Bios and then the screen goes black with a blinking cursor in upper left corner of the screen. The black screen remains for 30 to 45 seconds and then I get the Ubuntu splash screen for maybe 5 seconds, and then desktop. Why am I not seeing faster boot times? I realize 45 to 60 seconds is good compared to other os's, but I anticipated much faster boot times. Shut down on the other hand is quite fast at maybe 5 to 10 seconds. Does anyone else get this black screen on boot? Seems like wasted time cause I can't tell what's going on during the time there is a black screen. This is not a real big deal breaker, as I don't reboot very often, but I just wonder why bootup isn't faster.

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General :: Windows XP Failed To Boot In Dual Boot System?

Jul 5, 2011

The problem is this: I have a 320gb HDD splitted in 4 partitions. When I first installed Windows XP I formatted the HDD in 3 (Windows system partition, Media partition and another one I left for Linux). However Linux requires another partition for swap. Everything was just fine. One day Windows stopped working and I tried re-installing it. After the system was ready to start, Windows failed to boot with "NTLDR is missing" message. I tried to recover the Master boot record, even replaced NTLDR manually - nothing worked. I read that in order a HDD to be partitioned in more than 3 parts the so called "extended" partitions must be created. I think this may cause the problem but I don't want to wipe out everything (I have more than 100 GB of books most of which are not available anymore in the same locations I have downloaded them)

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General :: Lilo Can't Boot Win7 From Dual Boot?

Dec 15, 2010

I cannot boot into the Windows 7 partition, which I guess is /dev/sda1. I have Slackware installed on /dev/sda2 which boots fine, my /etc/lilo.conf looks like

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/etc/# Start LILO global section compact

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General :: Messed UP Boot Order On Dual Boot

Jun 24, 2011

I am working on another's Dell Inspiron 530 with Vista 64-bit; see below:

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wanting a dual-boot, 500GB hdd was formatted as above, Win Vista x64 Recovery CD was created, and antiX-M11 (as Swift Linux 0_1_1) installed. Now, at startup, machine boots to antiX and not Vista. User wants it the other way around. I think I should have reordered the partitions and not installed GRUB in MBR. EasyBCD is the preferred boot loader for User. This is a learning experience but due to time constraints and not being at my home where references are available, EasyBCD is on a USB stick -- should I boot to the Vista Recovery CD and then try to install EasyBCD to sda3 from it, uninstall antiX (but this will not fix the MBR problem, will it?), or edit fstab or what

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General :: PC Won't Boot After New Fedora/Win XP Dual Boot Install?

Sep 7, 2009

I have a PC with three HD's. My primary hard drive has a single partition and contains Win XP SP3. I have a second hard drive which I use to store junk (pictures, movies, etc). The third, 60GB HD, I just put into my PC and I wanted to install Fedora 11 onto it. I want to have a dual boot system with WinXP being the default boot. I downloaded the latest build of Fedora 11, created a LiveCD out of it and I tried to install the OS onto this third new hard drive. I installed the OS, I told it to use the entire third HD and to have a dual boot setup and make the WinXP OS be the default boot. The installation seemed to go without any problems. However, after restarting the PC, the PC stops booting right after the DELL screen. It gives me a cursor and that's it. It just sits there. I have tried redoing the install about 4 different times now and no matter how I change the different installation options, I get the same result. Now I can't even boot into XP even after I disconnect the third drive. I am guessing that the dual boot got screwed up; I just don't know how to fix it and more importantly, how to install Fedora, dual boot.

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Ubuntu :: Can't Boot Windows - BIOS Won't Let Boot Up Disk ?

Apr 16, 2010

Well today I decided that I couldn't wait for the offical release of 10.04 LTS, so I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 LTS Beta 2. After realizing that many problems had come with that update, I decided to just format my Ubuntu partition and reinstall it. Somehow my GRUB stopped working from when I formatted Ubuntu, so I whipped out the old Toshiba recovery disk for Windows Vista 32bit. After many attempts to have the recovery portion of the disk fix all of my problems and seeing no results, I decided that reinstalling Ubuntu (and GRUB) might make everything all better. Well it didn't. Grub shows my Windows partition but fails to boot it. After selecting it, it goes to a blank screen and stops responding. And to add to all of my problems, my BIOS has changed slightly. It no longer shows/or responds to F2 or F12 when I tried to give another try at that Toshiba recovery disk. That kinda sucks since I can't choose what to boot. Please help me!! I really don't want to have to format my entire hard drive and try to install Windows Vista again (Not that Vista is anything anyone should love) I have many expensive programs that can only be activated a certain amount of times. I don't even think that I could reinstall Vista since my BIOS won't let me boot the CD/DVD drive.

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General :: Old Boot Dual Boot Drive In New PC?

Mar 28, 2010

Old Boot drive in new PC (XPPRO + Ubutnu) Run the XP repair BUT still have Error 21, used XP repair console to repair MBR still have problems.

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General :: Set Up The Hdd To Dual Boot Xp?

Feb 3, 2010

I currently have fedora 10 installed and want to set up the hdd to dual boot xp. If anyone could give a guide or suggestion on the best way to do this it would be great. I prefer to not start over even though it would be easier to dual boot linux into an xp host.

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General :: Best Dual Boot ?

Mar 6, 2011

Haven't been browsing for long, so this may have been covered already. I'm sure it's a common question but which distro would you prefer for a dual boot on a laptop, running alongside Vista? I've shrunk my Windows partition and opened a 10GB space for new business. I don't know a lot about different distros but boot Ubuntu 10.10 and XP on my desktop. Would this be the best choice?

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Ubuntu :: Boot From A USB Without Having To Go Into BIOS?

Jan 26, 2011

I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 Minimal on a 2GB USB using CLI and it is working very well after adding a few applications. But this USB will be used only on machines other than my own - likely with Windows as the only OS. And it is not comfortable for me to go into the BIOS of a strange machine to change the order of booting and afterwards go back to reset the order , especially with the owner looking on, obviously worried, and wandering whether his machine will still be working!

So my question: Is there any way to boot from a USB without having to go into the BIOS? code...

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General :: Uninstall On Dual Boot With Win XP?

Feb 23, 2010

how to uninstall linux on dual boot with win XP ??

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General :: MBD Modify For Dual Boot?

Dec 29, 2010

I am going to install the newest version of Ubuntu on my computer. I am currently running Vista. I would like to be able to dual boot. I understand the whole partitioning deal and booting from the cd but i am worried that doing so will overwrite my Master Boot Record for windows. Do I need to modify the GRUB2 after installation. Read many writeups but was hoping for some input.

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General :: Custom Dual Boot GUI ?

Nov 21, 2009

Now that ive finally got XP and Ubuntu on my system, i thought id try to get rid of that DOS looking boot! :s

To explain my situation (probably default) when i start up after bios a black screen appears with a list of options:

1. ubuntu
2. ubuntu recovery
3. xp
4. xp recovery

something like that not sure the exact order or titles...

What i wanna do is make it have a GUI where i select which OS i want.

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General :: Dual Boot With Xp And Red Hat Enterprise 5

Jul 3, 2011

I have one hard disk partitioned into four logical drives.

1.20gb for red hat 5 //installed after installing window xp
2.40gb for Win xp //Installed first
3.40gb not formatted yet
4.more than 50gb for data storage.

After all the installation,I can just boot Red hat 5 but it shows the prompt for window xp also to boot in boot selection screen.When I entered for window to boot,I have this message-

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General :: How To Go From Dual Boot To Single

Feb 19, 2010

How do I erase windows completely and just run puppy. Also how do I download and install damn small linux.

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General :: How To Redo Dual Boot OS

Oct 24, 2010

I have an OSS 11.3/WinXPPro dual boot system. Unfortunately, Windows is a mess because of a botched restoration. I guess I need to start again from scratch. I assume if I attempt to reinstall Windoze that the whole dual boot system is going to get botched up anyway.I would like to know what would be the best approach since I am going to start by installing Windoze to the HD. Here is a readout of what I currently have from gparted:

Partition / File Sys / Mount Point / Flags
/dev/sda1 ntfs /media/sda1
/dev/sda2 extended boot,lba

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