My current setup has the following partition:
sda1: ubuntu 32-bits
sad2: ubuntu 64-bits
sad3: ext3 system for personal storage
sda4: swap
My idea is to format my sda2 to become ntfs and install a windows xp system.., my question is how this could affect my current grub2 config since the MBR loads from sda1?
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 RelatedI use this GUI app a lot when I was using Ubuntu. Very simple to use. I want to use it in my new Debian 7 xfce install. My understanding is that I would have to build a deb from source to allow me to use this app? If this is the case, what is the best (easiest) way to do this. I saw some videos in YouTube but I'm not sure if things have changed with the new Debian 7. I have never used Debian before so if possible, go easy on me...
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root@localhost:/home/kbriggs> system-config-network
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-gui", line 48, in <module>
gettext.bind_textdomain_codeset(PROGNAME,locale.nl _langinfo(locale.CODESET))
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'nl_langinfo'
i just installed ubuntu yesterday (dual boot) and ive finally decided i wanted to wipe windows xp off my hard drive first of all i know how to delete partitions and such but then i went to g parted and saw all this crazy info (screenshot posted) im really confused and down wanna end up ruining my installation.
But what i want to do is remove my xp installation merge the empty partition with my linux partition and then rebuild the grub2 config file.
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 & grub2 on a Toshiba sattellite laptop last night:
- Win XP shows up in the Grub2 menu.
- When I boot Win XP, it says autock program not found, skipping autocheck, then Win XP stops booting.
- I did a little digging on the net, & found I have to unhide the NTFS partition for Win XP (hd0,1)
- Grub2 doesn't have an unhide command.
- I tried to run parttool, & got the "command not found".
For some time now I have kept 2 partitions for (K)ubuntu versions so go back if the new one is troublesome.So, I have a common /boot partition, 2 partitions for (K)ubuntu versions and a common data partition which both versions can access.After installing 10.10 I lost the grub connection to the earlier version. This did not happen in the past. So far I've failed to get it back by various attempts to do so.Did I make a mistake in allowing the /boot partition to be formatted during install of 10.10 (can't remember what I did before) or has the /etc/grub.d/os_prober in 10.10 failed in some way?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install iw-0.9.19 on xubuntu.When i type the command "make", i get:
/bin/sh: pkg-config: not found
/bin/sh: pkg-config: not found
Makefile:38: *** Cannot find development files for any supported version of libnl. Stop.
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Can someone tell me how to do this? I just formatted a slaved drive for EXT4 and now I'd like to write grub over the MBR. Cannot really find much on Google. tried: grub-install /dev/sda1 and of course didn't work....
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View 9 Replies View RelatedIn short, what I'd like to find is a workaround to install Grub2 onto a USB stick, from a PC running Windows, without using a GUI. After searching, I don't find any way to install Grub2 from Windows. I do have a nice little MS-DOS batch file that installs syslinux onto a USB stick. It's simple, fairly fool-proof, and I'd like to convert it to install Grub2.Did find an example of running grub-install without actually installing anything: grub-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sdaSo, IFAIKT, this just creates the Grub2 'boot.img' file, and maybe also modifies the 'core.img' file? Is that right? If so, then a little DOS utility to write a USB's MBR using the boot.img should work, yes?
However, I notice the boot.img file is 512 bytes. As I understand it, a drive's partition table is included in that space. I'd like to take that boot.img and use it to install Grub2 on any arbitrary USB stick, without altering the existing partition table. If I snip off the last 72 bytes so the image is only 440 bytes, it seems like this should work (assuming that every USB stick will have Grub2 installed in the /boot/grub subdirectory).If this sounds right, is there a DOS-based MBR update utility that you would recommend? I find several, such as MBRUtility, MBRWizard, and MBRFix, among others
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI am having trouble with setting up the grub based system on my external hdd. I am trying to have one grub which is going to load operating systems, and livecd if any (usb install). I am stuck at installing Ubuntu 10.10 Minimal version (i don't need gui for linux).Here is what I have done so far:
1. Created 2 primary partitions - windows 7 recovery and data (ntfs)
2. Created an extended partition for linux stuff.
3. Create a logic partition (10MB) for grub (ext2)
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I tried doing a search and couldn't find anything relatively recent on the topic so here is my question.
I am fairly new to the linux world and am in the process of trying out a couple different distributions. I am doing this by installing them to an external hard drive. This allows me to test them out without affecting my main system in any way. I have already tried openSUSE and it installed with no problems. I am trying to install Ubuntu, however when the installation tries to install GRUB2 it fails asking me for a different location to install it to.
When installing I unhook all drives from the computer except for the dvd drive, usb drive I'm installing from, and the external hard drive I am trying to install Ubuntu to. I'm not sure what else may be of use.
I have 2 HDDs, and under linux, sda is ntfs, sdb is ext4 of debian jessie, the booting order is sdb ( it contains the grub on sdb's MBR) then sda, the windows boot loader on its own MBR.
The sda was win8, but now just formatted it and did a fresh installation of win10. After power off PC and plug the sdb up again. Turn on the power, setup the booting prior as same as above, but, the grub can not realize the windows 10 boot sector, error message is: no such device /dev/sda1... (and following a digit array) 8xxxxxxxxxxxx....
How to config grub in order to make it can dual boot both Operating System?
Hi,
This is my first time here.
I have installed GTK by "sudo apt-get install gnome-core-devel" and I can build the test-application named "Hello ubuntu" successfully with `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`.
But when I built an application which needs the GTK's support, it said as follows:
checking for gtk-config... no
checking for GTK - version >= 0.99.7... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
configure: error: Cannot find proper gtk version
I don't know what's wrong with it,anyone can help me?
Thanks a lot!
I used debian several years ago, and I'm interested in trying it out again.Right now, I have a laptop running Windows Vista and Ubuntu 9.10 in a dual boot configuration. Here is the output ofsudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 41345 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
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Going through the forums I read a post, where it was told to rebuild a package... But unfortunately, I didnt understand a thing which was mentioned in the building rpm tutorail that I reffered... The replacement to that package which was mentioned in the same post was unavailable.
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First, I went here and downloaded the file called 'NEW T100_B.state'.URL....
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Ive created two RAID0 partitions on my drives, a 500GB and a 60GB. Im trying to install Ubuntu on the smaller partition (ive already put Win 7 on the larger one) and every time when i get right to the last part of installation it says Grub couldnt be installed. "the grub package failed to install in arget......."
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I've read the various Grub2 posts and even the guide, but unfortunately for me I can't seem to come up with an answer to my problem. I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a new hard drive on a friends laptop, but I have problems with the system hanging on the Grub2 bootup.I'll post the screen
recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then save-env recordfail; fi
set quiet=1
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
search --no floppy --fs-uuid --set ac1b1d46-bac1-4140--953e-70a8a61be8b0
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUI=ac1b1d46-bac1-4140-953e-70a8a61be8b0 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
If I hold down the left shift and then press E to edit and remove the search --no floppy line entirely then press ctrl-x the system boots just fine. I then opened up a terminal and did sudo update-grub to try that but it didn't fix it. Is this a problem in my bios looking for a floppy, I tried with the boot from floppy enabled and disabled (but always as the 3rd boot option) the floppy is not installed. Is there anyway to edit the file and save it so it will boot up? I was trying to research that and could not come up with it.
The screen will show a blinking cursor for a few seconds. The keyboard works and a signal is found for the speakers. Then the 'Ubuntu' loading screen will show but at this point the screen would freeze and the keyboard will cease to function. At this point I have to reboot from the on/off switch. It can take several attempts before the desktop will load, or if I'm lucky, it'll load up first time. I've had this problem since 9.10. I'm not quite sure why it's taken me this long to attempt to sort it out.
View 6 Replies View RelatedAs a long time Red Hat/Fedora user, I'm quite new to the Ubuntu/Debian culture, and/or, to the Grub2 specific behavior.I'd like to see Grub2 system selection menu at every boot time even if I only have a single operating system, Ubuntu 9.10, on my hard drive. What should I do fot this purpose?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI've been using Ubuntu 9.10 for a while now, and i've started to look at other distros of linux. I found PClinuxOS which seemed decent and decided to install it alongside my Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows Vista. The bootloader that came with PClinuxOS recognised my Vista OS, but not my Ubuntu.long story short, i recovered Ubuntu's GRUB becasue i had already edited it to my liking. GRUB found the PClinuxOS partition and added it to the menu. Vista and Ubuntu start fine, but when i try to select the PClinuxOS option, i get this message-type-thing:
[linux-bzImage, setup=0x3a00, size=0x1f9110]vga=788 is deprecated. useset gfxpayload=800x600x16, 800x600 before linux command insteaderror: no such partitionI don't really know, but it almost sounds like GRUB is trying to find the linux kernel, but it cannot connect to the partition for some reason. I have been extremely pleased with Ubuntu, so I really don't need another distro, but I'd like to know how to fix this
Looks like 10.10 will have grub2 and so the ability to boot on efi system. I have a macbook pro 6.2.Will maverick install on this machine as normal dual boot with no need of refit support?
View 5 Replies View RelatedBeen using Linux for many many years but Grub2 is annoying the heck out of me at the moment.
My home desktop PC is set up as follows:
/dev/sda � 40GB 10k Raptor with Ubuntu 10.10 installed
/dev/sdb � 500GB HDD formatted to ext4
/dev/sdc � 500GB HDD split up as follows:
/dev/sdc1 � 80gb NTFS partition with Win7 installed
/dev/sdc1 � Remaining drive space NTFS but nothing on it yet
Grub2 refuses to detect that Windows is installed on the 3rd HDD. I've googled and spent hours trying all sorts of things to get it to detect it and add it to my boot menu.
If I disconnect all drives except the Windows drive it boots up straight into Win7, so it's healthy and happy. (as healthy and happy as Windows can be, I need it for work purposes only!)
Does anyone have any tips on what would be the best method to force grub to realise that Windows is sitting there?
As far as I understand, the Win7 partition should be (hd2,1) � does that sound right to you?
I haven't tried booting off an Ubuntu CD and re-installing grub, since I can get into Linux and all the guides seem to be about how to restore grub after a Windows install eats it...
where are the "System Log Viewer" config files stored? I know most have been moved into /var/rsyslog.d/ folder but where are the users config file stored? I restored my local /home to a fresh install and the Log viewer is looking for log files from the OLD install.
So there must be a config file somewhere in /home/$user that the system log viewer is reading from as well as the rsyslog.d folder...