I've installed Gnewsense on my sda1 and I no longer have the option to load Ubuntu 10.04 on sda2 at boot. As Gnewsense is ext 3 I cannot access my files in my Ubuntu Home dir. Can I simply switch my boot to sda2? It will solve my problem for the medium term.
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I just successfully installed ubuntu 10.10 Meerkat Maverik parallel to manufacturer installed Windows 7 Professional on a newly bought ThinkPad t410. All works find just that on the boot screen instead of 1 Windows partition (usually something like "Windows 7 loader on sda1") I find two Windows partitions. Now, I know that Thinkpads have a recovery partition. Funny is though that both "Windows 7 loader on sda1/2" login to what seems the identical Windows (not one of them the "normal" and the other some form of a recovery).
View 1 Replies View RelatedFirst, my mistake was unchecking the option to boot into Ubuntu through GRUB customizer. Woops.All I could do at this point was boot into Vista, that's about it.So, I boot into Vista, wiped the Linux partitions, and restored the ability to boot into Vista with a Vista CD. Then I reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10, no problems here. Its just that when I boot up and get into the GRUB menu, I can't boot into my actual Vista. The option for it isn't present. I can boot into Ubuntu, Memory Test, and Vista's Recovery, but not Vista itself. Here is my GRUB cfg, haven't touched it or anything.
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#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
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I believe that my troubles lie in this part,
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ls: cannot access /var/lib/os-prober/mount/boot
Boot: No such file or directory
I'm unsure of what to do at this point, because I'm afraid of messing everything up.I have a Vista boot CD if I need it, an Ubuntu live CD, but that's about it. Too long, didn't read: Can't boot into Vista on sda2, what do?
I have a loadable module, simple enough I believe it should run on any 2.6 kernel. I want to force the load and test that assumption. How can I do it?
ismod does not seem to notice the -f in 2.7 modprobe has -f but cannot locate the module.No go. So I read the manpage for modprobe which says: modprobe looks in the module directory /lib/modules/'uname -r'.So I copied MYMODULE.ko to /lib/modules/2.6.(the only directory in here) and type: modprobe -f MYMODULE.ko.Still can't locate MYMODULE.ko.I notice there are no other .ko modules in that directory; so I go in deeper to kernel/drivers/char, guessing about the char directory, and copy MYMODULE.ko there.
what are all the options dos- ect! to format a HD. for the Linux platform is there not a way to load Linux out side of a Windows program .
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've set up a triple boot system (Ubuntu Karmic, Windows Vista and OSX86 -- a patched OS X which works on a PC) on a Dell 9200 (C2D 2.13 GHz, 4GB RAM, nVidia G210). I sue Grub2 as the bootloader and update-grub picks up OS X and it boots without any problem.
However, although when booting OS X using its own Darwin bootloader, I can apply the boot option "Graphics Mode"="1680x1050x32" to ensure that I get the screen resolution that I want, when OS X boots from Grub2, the only resolution available is 1024x768 which is disappointing. I have tried adding gfxmode=1650x1050x32 to the OS X section of /boot/grub/grub.cfg in Ubuntu but this does nothing.
I used GParted to delete my first partition,then moved my second partition to the beginning of the disk. That all went well, but the partition table still shows an unused entry of 0 blocks listed at partition 1. How do I get rid of that entry and make my old second partition sda1?
View 1 Replies View RelatedA colleague of mine was studying at the University of Vienna and saw an application which was based on linux whereby other pc's booted from it and if on the server they had set it to force a clean install on that PC it would download and install a windows image. Does anyone know of the app or could point me in the direction of a similar app.
View 5 Replies View Relatedthis is my structure:
[root@ iso]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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And I want to restore some files from /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00.
However, when I installed Oracle Express Edition Database 10g, it complains that I have insufficient disk space on '/' directory. Here is a snapshot of my system. Wondering if I would like to swap the free space from /dev/sda5 into /dev/sda2.
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[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 42.9 GB, 42949672960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5221 cylinders
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/etc/sysconfig/bootloader contains this line:
DEFAULT_APPEND="resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EARS-00Y5B1_WD-WCAV55372533-part5 splash=silent quiet showopts"
Which works fine - except that I am going to clone this machine
and this will fail on all the other disks, which have a different serial number. It needs to be
resume=/dev/sda5
Similarly, /boot/grub/menu.lst has for root=
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD10EARS-00Y5B1_WD-WCAV55372533-part6
which will need to be /dev/sda6.
The part5 piece of this cannot be changed in yast. I selected that line, edited to /dev/sda5, and it came back the same way.
The part6 seems to be coming from /etc/fstab, changed it by hand to /dev/sda6, but it may not stay that way the next time yast runs. Similar changes to menu.lst did not survive a reboot, defaulting back to the "part5" syntax.
Is there some way to employ "/dev/sdX' syntax using yast, or is this one of those cases where one must work around the "help" of the easy configuration tool?
In my ubuntu 10.10 wubi installation, I used to get the option for windows 7. Last week, i added some updates through update manager. After that the windows 7 option is missing. How do i resolve it
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe only options I get for loading Ubuntu 11.04 on my HP 2000-219DX Laptop is: 1. completely remove windows 7 and download Ubuntu, or 2. Manually partition the HD. I'm no computer wiz and am fairly new to GNU/Linux so I really don't know what the problem might be. I need the windows os for work but would prefer to run the Ubuntu distro for personal computing. I have the same problem with Ubuntu 10.10, so no Ubuntu for this laptop until I can get this problem solved.
View 9 Replies View RelatedOriginaly I had Win7 and Ubuntu (Ub) set up OK in dual boot. The Ub was on a seperate drive in its own partition - then the darn drive failed. Without reinstalling Uu I still get it as an option in the dual boot menu. If I do reinstall Ub I end up with a 2nd Ub option. How can I get the boot menu to show Win7 only, so that I can re-install Ub with only 1 entry in the boot table?
I have tried using bootrec.exe from the command line in Win7 recovery mode but that does not fix things.
Basically what it says in the subject. In the Allocate Drive Space part of installation theres 'replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu' and 'Something else' but nothing for installing them alongside each other, which I want to do.
View 14 Replies View RelatedRunning Vista and recently d/l Linux 10.04 with Vista default.
Want to make linux default but when I go to startup manager and select Linux and reboot Vista remains the default.
I was installed linux mint in windows 7 using option "Install inside windows"... I got trouble with windows7 so i reinstalled it... but now there is no option to select OS at the start up... But i have the drive where i installed mint and all other files.. Is there any way to get it back.. Because i dont have time to reinstall mint...
View 1 Replies View Relatedhow to edit boot option. I had install Win7 and Ubuntu in my laptop. I want to change boot order win7 at up and ubuntu at down. so if i turn on laptop in 8sec if i not choose which OS to enter, by default it will choose win7 to boot.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI installed 11.04 after Windows 7. when the GRUB boot menu starts up there is an option for Win 7 boot but it will not boot windows. When that option is selected the screen changes colour for 2 seconds and then reverts to the GRUB menu. Ubuntu boots fine.I downloaded the Boot Info Script and ran it, the results are
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
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I have downloaded and ran Austrumi-2.1.6 "Live CD" and although the OS booted up and connected to the Internet easily enough I just can't find the option to make the OS boot up using the English language. I must be missing something but can't figure out what?
View 5 Replies View Relatedi successfully install backtrack 3 but i cant see windows option anywhere in my lilo boot loader
View 10 Replies View RelatedI'm currently having a problem trying to remove the black screen that appears at Start-Up that asks me which operating system I want to run...I've already deleted wubi but this screen keeps appearing every time my computer starts up...How do I remove or disable this feature?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have one distro installed, LILO as the boot loader, and i wonder if it's possible to duplicate the lilo entries with an option which executes some script or command during, or after the boot.Actually, i installed a Slackware + autolaunching virtual machine, but i have two VM, so i need to autolaunch one of them. May i choose it from the very beginning ?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI installed ubuntu using wubi and then I tried installing grub 2 but it failed. I need a way to reinstall the mbr sp it will load the windows 7 loader from the first partition.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy computer(win xp) crashed. When I turn it on I get the flickering line. If I press F2 while the BIOS is loading I can access the BIOS setup, but no operating system will load. I am not very familiar with BIOS. I put a cd in the cd drive that contained the latest download of Ubuntu and told it to reboot. Nothing happened. Setup says my CD-drive is set to a secondary drive. I looked in the CD files and I saw the windows installer (wubi). Is there a way I can boot linux?
View 13 Replies View RelatedUbuntu 9.1 is installed in sda1, however, while creating a separate boot partition an error occurred and now I can not boot sda1. I get the message load kernel first. I have tried without success to learn to load a kernel.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've installed Slackware 12.2 on a 12 year old desktop. It is the only OS on the machine. When I press the Power button it stops at Slackware's splash screen asking me to choose an OS, even tho' there is only one to choose from. I installed LILO to the MBR and that is also listed there as a possibility.
Is there a way to set Linux so it will simply load automatically?
I have installed Linux Mint 9 within Win XP and have installed an additional HDD as a Slave on the same IDE cable as my DVD drive. I installed ubuntu on to the additional HDD using the live CD and when I try to boot the computer I am greeted by two versions of GRUB?! First version appears to be the one that comes with Mint and so asks me to boot either Windows or Mint, when I select Mint I get ubuntu's version of Grub, it asks me to boot one of three OS's; here's where it gets weird:
Top of screen says:
GNU GRUB Version 1.98-1ubuntu5-1mint2
If I select Win, it boots fine. If I select Mint it boots fine however if I select Ubuntu it says:
error: no such device
error: file not found
error: you need to load the kernel first
I pressed "e" within grub and was faced with this:
insmod ntfs
set root ='(hd1,1)'
search --no floppy --fs-uuid --set f6422203421e479
loopback loop0 /linuxmint/disks/root.disk
setroot =(loop0)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-21-generic root =dev/sdb1 loop=/linuxmint/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash
initrd/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
I am using Suse 11.4, with the Gnome desktop. I have downloaded the VLC player, but cannot work out how to make it play CDs in the CD drive. Right clicking on the Audio Disc icon that appears on the desktop whenever I load a disc doesn't give me an option to Play using VLC. Is there a way to make VLC the default player for CDs?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am trying to load u-boot 1.1.6 in my samsung s3c6410 board. i am getting a error in this process,
s3c6410 # make clean
s3c6410 # make smdk6410_config
Above two command worked fine with out any error.
s3c6410 #make
executing the above command i am getting a lot of errors, such as
start.s:o: error:bad value (armv5t) for -march=switch
interrput.s:o: error:bad value (armv5t) for -march=switch
I am new to the porting, get me out of this problem
