Ubuntu :: Creating A Dual Boot System?
Jun 20, 2011
I want to make a Dual Boot system completely made out of Linux. The two OS will be Fedora 15 (Gnome) and Ubuntu 11.04 (as i love the simplicity of Gnome). The question that has been striking me for quite sometime is not that if I can have both of them on a single computer but that if both of them can have a single Linux-Swap and home drive with separate root drives. Root drives for Ubuntu 11.04 might be around 10GB while that for Fedora 15 will be 20GB with 5GB of Linux-Swap (a single swap drive for both the OS) and if possible a 20GB space for the home folder common for both the OS.
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Oct 31, 2010
I am currently running Windows Vista... and I want to install Ubuntu 10.10. Just wondered if anyone can tell me how to install Ubuntu alongside my Windows OS so that I can still play WoW and other windows games.
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Sep 4, 2010
With Windows 7 pre-installed, what is the procedure for creating a dual boot system with Debian (kde)? The computer has an amd64 processor.
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May 25, 2010
I'm running UbuntuStudio 9.10 on my Toshiba Satellite A40 Laptop... it's perfect and I love it... but, I installed it cleanly doing a reformat of the drive, and with no partition - so using as much of the newly replaced 80gb drive as possible.Now, if I want to create a partition to install WinXP as a dual boot, 1) can this be done? 2) what do I use to do it?
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Jan 7, 2011
When I attempted to create a dual boot computer with windows by accident I erased windows so I installed ubuntu as my operating system . I have since recovered the windows partition and want to create again a dual boot system. I have down loaded GaG is there a way to install it using Ubuntu 10-10,. I would prefer not to need to re-install Ubuntu?
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Jul 27, 2011
I just reinstalled Ubuntu from the LiveCD onto my second HDD because that was my intent originally, and I very much disliked having to choose my OS a second time before finally booting into Ubuntu.
Is there any way for me to turn these separate installations (Win7 on my first HDD, Ubuntu on my second HDD) into a nice dual boot system without reinstalling Ubuntu or am I going to have to reinstall Ubuntu?
If I do have to reinstall Ubuntu, do I tell the partition manager to load the boot loaders from Ubuntu onto the Windows drive, or do I tell it to load them onto the 100MB windows system partition? I currently just put the entire installation onto my second HDD, and then lost my dual boot option. Now I have to switch first boot device in BIOS to switch between operating systems.
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Feb 23, 2010
I am trying to create a dual boot setup with Windows XP. Everything goes smoothly untill the final reboot. I get a text screen giving me the two options of booting into Windows XP or Mythbuntu. When I select Mythbuntu I get a second text screen with a rectangle only showing Windows XP as an option -nothing else. Hitting enter causes error message.
If I selext the Windows XP option on the first screen system boots into windows without a problem.
I suspect this should be fairly easy to fix - but being a complete noob to Linux I am lost as to what to do to correct this.
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Jul 20, 2010
I just recently installed ubuntu 9.10 in my upstairs computer. It is a single boot system.Downstairs I have a dual boot system. I have windows vista and ubuntu 9.10 installed. It worked fine. I wanted to make this a single boot system and uninstall ubuntu 9.10. I cannot get rid of the grub bootloade
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Jun 8, 2010
I need some help creating a triple boot system, I have already installed XP and W7, now I am installing Fedora 12 (this is for work so unfortunately it has to be like that). Now the problem is that I want it to show all the partitions in GRUB. Right now it works by going to GRUB first, when selecting Windows it jumps to the Win7 boot manager.
I tried to have them all in one but it seems like the addresses I used in GRUB did not work cause it keeps directing me to the Win7 BM. BTW I am using a single drive with 3 different logical partitions.
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Apr 10, 2011
I have a jpeg file on my Windows system that won't delete. However, when I try to boot into safe mode to delete it, I can not get into the menu to select "Safe Mode". F8 just boots me right into Ubuntu.I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on an Acer Aspire 5520.
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Jan 28, 2011
I've installed Ubuntu on my new desktop alongside Windows 7 (each OS is on a separate drive), I seem to have run into a small problem. Let me start with what I did:
- Unplugged 1TB drive from the PSU, BIOS was not seeing my formatted (and thus empty) 500GB drive and I couldn't put it into the boot order at all with the 1TB turned on.
- Loaded up the boot CD and was able to install Ubuntu 10.1 on my 500GB drive.
- Did a bit of configuring, shut my PC off and plugged my 1TB (with Windows 7) drive back in. I tried to see if I could now see my Ubuntu drive in BIOS but nothing is there - just the Windows drive is in the list of available drives to boot from (along with DVD-ROM and USB).
This is where I've run into my problem. What I want is to have a nice GRUB boot menu at the start like any other dual-boot system but just have the two operating systems on separate drives altogether.I did it this way because I was having issues with the advanced partition menu on the boot CD so just went ahead and followed the KISS method by unplugging the Windows drive.
I was told by a friend that if I put my Ubuntu drive into the first position in my boot order and the Windows drive in the second, then I could boot into Ubuntu and run a GRUB update command (he told me to google it) and that would create the necessary GRUB that had the entries for Windows 7 and Ubuntu.Both operating systems are 64-bit, I imagine that might make a difference in whatever help you guys can offer me. I love the hell out of both OS's and want to be able to use them interchangeably.
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Nov 10, 2010
When I first installed Ubuntu as a dual-boot (about 18 months ago), I had problems booting to XP, which were eventually solved for me in this thread, which set Windows to boot Ubuntu, rather than the other way round.
I've just had to do a fresh install of Maverick, following a major problem, and I'm back to being unable to boot XP. The error is different from before and I don't want to start guessing at what to do about it and screwing things up still further.
The GRUB menu lists Ubuntu first, then Windows XP. If I choose XP, it takes me to my previous boot menu, with Windows as the first option. However, selecting this gives me
Code:
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
<Windows root>system32
toskml.exe
Please re-install a copy of the above file. Windows and Ubuntu are on separate hard drives. XP was fine until I re-installed Ubuntu.
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Sep 13, 2010
it was on instructions from "She-who-must-be-obeyed"'s orders. I had to install XP Pro onto an unused partition of my hd to dual boot with Ubuntu 9.10. It was an uneventful installation as those things go when dealing with a microshaft product, but after massaging out the bugs with XP, there was no option upon restart to boot to anything but XP. The machine just automatically booted to XP.
Now, here's where I feel even more the fool: during the XP install, a screen passed by saying something about changing the accessibility to the Ubuntu partitions, but that it could "easily" be changed somehow once XP was fully installed...I didn't write it down. I know, I know... I'm not worthy of it, but, please, if there's someone out there who knows what's going on with this, please pity this old fool and offer up any advice you may have.
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Mar 4, 2010
I am having dual boot system(windows 7 and Fedora 12).When i switch on my system.It show the the timer 3 sec in order to get boot selection window(means window which asks that what to start fedora 12 or windows 7).I want to increase this time from 3 to 10 sec.
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Dec 16, 2010
This is the third time I try unsuccessfully to install Debian as a second OS on a hard drive. When it gets to the end of the installation process the installer asks whether I want to go ahead with the Grub Boot Loader, I choose yes. The end result is however that I can't boot that partition within the hard drive -- i.e., Debian. Can someone tell me what is going on? Should I not use the Grub Boot Loader when I have more than one operating system on a machine? Should I not install Grub on the Master Boot Record (MBR)?
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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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Jan 27, 2011
I have a dual boot system with OS X and Ubuntu on a mac pro. I would like to set up two harddrives in a software RAID 0 configuration. I was going to set up the drives in OS X using the Disk utility, but then I was wondering whether Ubuntu would be able to read it, and how you would go about setting it up.
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Jan 4, 2010
I have a dual boot: XP and Ubuntu.
When I load XP I have an IP address (shown in ipconfig /all) and www.whatismyip.com of 144.82.192.154
When I load Ubuntu I have an IP address (shown in ifconfig and www.whatismyip.com) of 144.82.193.37
These IP addresses seem to be static since I have an Ethernet connection. I have rebooted several times and get the same addresses in XP and Ubuntu. Why are they different?
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Jul 3, 2010
I want to uninstall Ubuntu from my machine, but I didn't find any direct instructions on how to do so.I dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit,with Windows 7 installed first.
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Jul 6, 2010
I've been using Ubuntu on my PCs and laptops for quite a while. Recently, I've been allocated a Mac for use in my lab. It is a PowerPC G5 running on Mac OS X 10.4.11. I've installed Ubuntu on one of the two hard disks available, the other one being the disk which Mac is installed in. There was no problems with the installation, but I cannot get Ubuntu to boot. Basically, when I restart the system, it boots into Mac straight away.
There is no boot loader or GRUB. I've tried holding down the options key when the system starts, but for some unknown reasons, the monitor cannot find a signal, so I cannot see what is going on. The monitor can only pick up a signal after Mac starts to boot (or, when I was installing Ubuntu, after the virtual Ubuntu has loaded). Am I suppose to expect GRUB or some other boot loader?
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Jul 31, 2010
Why do people say that for your few windoze only apps, that a dual boot system is preferable to a VM? Who on earth has the time to restart their machine and select a different boot OS every time they need a two minutes in a program?
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Aug 6, 2010
My new system build is nearly complete and I will be formatting it in about an hour and installing the OS's. I am running a 64 bit quadcore system and plan to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 Ultimate. However, I am torn on which filesystem to use.
I have been out of the PC craze for the past 2 years familiarizing myself with the mechanics and modifications of fast cars. Now that I have returned, much has changed that I am left to catch up with so I'm coming here for a quick answer.I am running a 1TB RAID 10 array, and do not want to split drivespace evenly for each OS. Which approach would a better idea? Should I use NTFS or EXT3? My plans for the machine are Ubuntu for everyday computing and any games that will run natively on linux.
Windows 7 will be reserved for any games that run on windows In fact, gaming is the ONLY reason I am not switching solely to a linux machine. Now, obviously each operating system and It's programs will be installed and run on It's own native filesystem NTFS for windows and EXT3 for Ubuntu. But I am torn as to which filesystem to store everything else on. Should movies, music and games be stored on an EXT3 or NTFS filesystem?curious as to the CPU utilization, access time and overall performance of both EXT3 from within windows and NTFS from within linux. Music and movies aren't really a concern but the one thing I would put emphasis on is how much would system performance be impacted when running a native linux game from within linux but on an NTFS filesystem? so, I am leaning towards EXT3 but what are the benefits of one over the other
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Sep 26, 2010
I have installed an external drive on my Windows 7 PC and therefore feel able to try to set up a dual boot with another operating system, and Ubuntu is the obvious first choice: however on the Ubuntu site the only options avaiable seem to be to install to a stick or on a new partition on the Windows C: drive. I couldn't really fathom installing to a stick and nothing seemed to run off the DVD to which I wrote the .iso file. I most definitely do not want to alter the C drive.
Seems to me it would be a good idea to have the option to install to any drive partition of one's choice. My son-in-law who uses Linux a lot in work suggested a web site explaining how to install Linux on an external drive, but that entails opening the PC and disconnecting the C drive. I assume that is because otherwise I would lose the Windows installation. My interest in PCs is most definitely directed towards systems and software, not hardware so I don't trust myself poking aound inside.There is presumably an explanation of why there is no simple way to ty out Ubuntu etc. but I can not find any explanations and would be grateful for a pointer about where I should look.
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May 1, 2011
My friend has Windows XP and I wanted to install Ubuntu 11.04 as a dual boot system. I loaded the install disk to boot from the cd drawer and when the install got to the part where the options where to install to showed, there was no option to install 'alongside XP' so I was stuck as I'm not sure where to go now Should I have been given the choice to 'install alongside'?
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Mar 2, 2010
I have a Toshiba laptop. It has 2 Operating systems. (Windows XP and Windows 7). Now I'm planing to uninstall windows 7 and install ubuntu, (that means Windows xp and Ubuntu) - (dual boot). How can I do that?
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Mar 21, 2010
Is it humanly possible to have a dual boot system and have it in RAID 0
I have three Hard drives.....
The three drives that I have are250GB IDE
1TB Sata
1TB Sata
And I edit . produce a lot of music/videos
What I am looking to do it have my 250Gb IDE drive as my Operating system (partitioned in two or something, one for Windows Another for Ubuntu)
And I would like when I am on either Operating System (ubuntu/windows_7)
its see's ,my computer as having a 2TB HDD (setting the two 1TB HDD's in RAID 0 )
So in Laymans... 250GB for OS's and 2TB (2 x 1TB HDD) as DATA drives
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Apr 1, 2010
I don't use Windows that often but thought since I have a copy of Win7 I might upgrade from the XP I'm currently using. I'm anticipating several issues, first Grub, can I get it going again after the Win7 upgrade without messing with my current Ubuntu install? the next issue is Win7 will want to make a "boot" partition, does this create any problem with partition names for Ubuntu? can this be solved by making the windows "primary" partition and using an extended partition inside that? is there anything I'm missing?
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May 2, 2010
I have upgraded to ubuntu 10.04 but now can't boot into win vista, ubuntu and vista are on grub but vista will not load, I have tried sudo upgrade-grub which seemed to work but had no effect on loading windows. I did think of using win dvd to fixmbr but only as last resort, I entered the commands suggested by nitstorm and got "command not found". Followed link to source forge.net and test disk, followed the instructions to install and run test disk which repaired the boot sector in the vista partition, I can now choose to boot into win or ubuntu.
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May 11, 2010
I upgraded Ubuntu a few times now (since 7.10) - and it still seems to be going well. I really enjoy some of the new features in Lucid - Ubuntu just keeps getting better! I dual-boot with Windows, but I use Ubuntu much more than I do Windows. I have a minor problem - my resolution keeps on re-setting itself to 1440x900 rather than 1920x1200. I think I've managed to isolate the problem. I have a single monitor, a DELL 2408wfp. I have the VGA and DVI connectors connected to the monitor at the same time - primarily because I could not get DVI to work under Karmic. I have disabled the VGA mode, so that only DVI is being used (i.e. I did this via ATI Catalyst Control Center).
When the computer boots, the screen defaults to 1440x900, on DVI. I use ATI Catalyst Control Center to change the resolution. Strangely enough, the ATI Catalyst Control Center tells me that 1920x1200 is the "Preferred" resolution. I select the preferred resolution, and it stays at that resolution until I reboot. On re-boot, the resolution changes back to 1440x900. Suspected theory is as follows:
1. Computer starts up. Computer says "do I have VGA signal"? If so, display in VGA for the BIOS setup, boot menu etc.
2. Gnome kicks in and determines it's in VGA mode. VGA likes to use 1440x900 because it feels like it. Computer changes resolution to 1440x900.
3. Gnome says "I should be using DVI mode, change to DVI".
4. What Lucid Lynx forgets to ask is "what resolution should I be using for DVI" - and uses the VGA resolution instead.
I tested this theory by removing the VGA cable from the monitor and re-booting. For the first time ever, Ubuntu booted into 1920x1200. I don't consider my work-around to be a fix, because I'm putting wear and tear on my VGA cable - as without VGA, I don't have fall-back if the DVI display driver stops working again.
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Nov 1, 2010
Ubuntu 10 is great. Love it. Am still running with dual boot as am a bit of a games addict. However want to give Ubuntu more room as will be my work area. Can I make the Linux partition bigger with the disk utility that comes with Ubuntu 10.10?Played around with Linux in the early '90's.Sure has changed.Easy installation, device recognition better than Win 7 and great working environment.
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