I'm dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows, but the OS selection screen is starting to get on my nerves. It's been a while since I edited a bootloader though, so could somebody link me a resource or two?
View 3 RepliesHow does bootloader edit in ubuntu 10.10? For example, I would like to select default boot windows instead of ubuntu.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu in a dual-boot with Windows 7, and installed the bootloader (GRUB? However, I have some weird Windows XP Embedded entry! I also have a lot of different boot options for Ubuntu. All I want is my Windows 7 entry (picked up as Windows Vista) and my main Ubuntu entry. How can I edit the bootloader entries (remove some existing ones, not adding any) so I have only two on there?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a major problem installing opensuse 11.3 on my computer( hp pavilion dv6).I downloaded openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-x86_64 from software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 11.3 and made a live usb.I'm a newbie at using linux infact i never used another operating system beside windows.Now i have installed windows 7 (on c disk 100gb).My first problem when i am trying to install opensuse is that he dosn't automatic choose to make my partitions so i have to do it manualy.I was searching how to make it the best way so i desited to make 4 partitons one for ' /boot' one for ' / 'one for '/home' and a swap partition/In windows7 i made 4 new partitons
3:10 gb for /boot
4:10 gb for/
5:70 gb for /user
6:10 gb for /swap
My first question is :Is this right to make 4 paritions in windows (opensuse can't format or resize my partitions it just can edit it ) so it's my only way to make partitions( If this is wrong how can i make partitions then)
My second question is how to change the bootloader configurtation because everytime when ii try to install opensuse it stops at about 96% and it says to reconfigure the bootloader options.
If i skip this i get the folowing message
=== System Checking ===
Checking for /usr/bin/chroot binary... Passed
Checking for chroot directory /mnt... Passed
Checking for chroot directory content (bin
boot
Checking for binary /mnt/bin/ls... Passed
Trying to chroot... Failed
This is worth reporting a bug at url.
I have a linux.img image for ubuntu.I want to edit file inside it, how can open it, edit a file, then remake the bin file?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to edit the "Places" menu the way one can edit the "Applications" and "System" menus on gnome?
Right-clicking on the bar gives only Applications and System as editable menus. I would like to remove some items from the places menu and add others of my own liking
What I am trying to do is edit the link target to force ip=xxxx.xxx.xxx string at end. I have a software program which access 4 different servers running the software but with different configs. In xp I can copy links and modify as above to correctly force the program to the various servers.
I have read the various how tos on hard vs sym links which I get. Playing around with hardlinks and sysmlinks (the examples I find) does not seem to be what I need. Feel like this is pretty basic stuff but I am a bit stumped.
i turn on my computer today and the windows partition that is normally there is gone, i don't know why or where it went. the part of the harddrive still exsists because i still have the 282GB partition that i can look at through ubuntu.i have is that for some reason since i upgraded to karmic koala, i have a bunch of old kernals also chilling on grub doing nothing, how do i rid myself of those?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have installed Ubuntu 9.10 with Wubi and uninstalled it. But now i have two bootloaders: GRUB and the XP bootloader with an Ubuntu option that doesn't work.
How do I remove the XP bootloader?
I installed Ubuntu no problem, except for when it came to picking the location for GRUB2 to go, the bootloader.It error'd out on me, and would not let me select a single location, so I clicked continue without, and I'd install it manually. Well, once it got to the manual part, it said everything was kosher, but when I reboot, I am greeted with a black terminal screen.It tells me to hit tab for commands. What exactly did I do wrong, and how may I fix this? Do I need to reinstall ubuntu? I'm running off the LiveCD right now, and it's ok, but I really hate having to use a CD to even boot up.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm a fairly new Linux user, with my first Linux distro being Ubuntu 10.10,which I first installed around November on my laptop.Initially I tried installing it on my desktop,but the liveCD would give me a blank screen every time, no matter how many USB installers I tried. I had given up on my desktop when it installed without a hiccup on my first try with my laptop, until now. I've tried Kubuntu and Xubuntu, both giving me the same problem. Non-'buntu distros gave me no problems however. I tried Ubuntu 10.04 without success. But to my surprise Ubuntu 9.10 gave me no troubles (at first) and I am typing from it currently. When it was done installing, it asked if I wanted it to add a bootloader, and I said no because I wasn't sure if it was going to install GRUB, and I already had the Windows bootloader installed. When I restarted I found out that the last part of my sentence was no longer true, and I had to reinstall from the liveCD to get a bootloader.
So now I have GRUB installed, but Windows 7 is not appearing in the options. I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to this
Code:
default 0
timeout 15
title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
[Code]...
I can still access my C: drive from Ubuntu, and everything appears to be in working order, so it's not as if Windows is corrupted.I've spent just about all day today and yesterday trying to fix this on my own, when I should have been studying for midterms, so hopefully this isn't too hard to fix and I can actually sleep tonight Once I get my bootloader issue resolved I'll be updating to 10.04 and then 10.10, which I shouldn't have any trouble with.
Kubuntu and win 7 have their own separate hard drives. The problem showed up when I installed the new Kubuntu 11.04 (disconnected win7 hard drive in hope that it wouldn't affect the win boot loader) . As of now, it's just an annoyance since I can just hit f12 quickly during startup and decide which one I want to boot. I tried doing what other tutorial suggest, but I am a little nervous about their instruction in reference to what number I should jot down since situation may be a little different.
Basically, I want Grub or whatever good working boot-loader to be installed (I heard a rumor that a click-able one was in the making) on my Kubuntu hard drive, and avoid affecting my win 7 hard drive (they research now with the updates to make sure you got their boot-loader running *sigh).
Here is some data I collected from partition editor, hopefully this will assist somebody in understanding my problem better:
ATA ST (where linux is installed)
/dev/sda1; type: ext4; size: 461.76 GiB; Used: 20.77 GiB
/dev/sda2 type: extended; size: 4.00 GIB; Used: 4.00 GiB
/dev/s...; type: linuxswap; size: 4.00GiB; Used: ---;
ATA WDC (Win 7 is installed)
/dev/sdb1; type: ntfs; size: 596.17 GiB; Used: 116.61 GiB
I'm pretty new with boot loaders, and I'm having some troubles. I had Ubuntu 11.04 installed and working pretty well, but I went to give Fedora 15 a try. I thought dual boot would be ideal.
So I used some free space in my HD, installed Fedora 15 Live USB, / in one partion, and /home in another, and a swap.
I always use /boot in another 100 MB partition at the start of the disk, so during the F15 bootloader, I directed it to the /boot partition.
After reboot, I can get into F15, but when I select 'other' I get an error message (sorry, its hard to remember "boot img not found, press cntrl alt del " )
In a panic, I used an old boot cd, ubuntu 10.10, created yet another really tiny partition of 2.3 gigs from free space, and installed its bootloader in my /boot partition again.
I can boot back into Ubuntu 11.04 (or 10.10, which I will see nuke anyways.) But no fedora choice anymore at all?
Is there a boot cd/tool that I can use to read all 3 of my OS, and allow me to boot into the one I want?
Or should I reinstall a Fresh F15 (since i've not done anything) and make different changes during install ?
Any reason why F15 and Ubuntu can't see each other during their installs?
I was wondering if it's possible to use the windows bootlaoder instead of GRUB to choose between Windows and Linux? If so how?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am just starting to learn how to work with a Linux OS and was planning on using a bootloader to start my PC so that I could choose which OS I wanted to start, enabling me to mess around with them without needing to worry about hosing my system.Also, my studies are taking me deep inside how the Linux OS system works in general and was hoping that I could also get some advice on where to start separating GNOME from the OS to find out exactly how they work together, how the OS works with services, etc. because I am trying to learn everything that this entails.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed Windows 7 First then give partition space of 25 GB for my Ubuntu. However, I prefer using Windows 7 BootLoader instead of using Ubuntu BootLoader.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have 2 hard drives, 1 with Windows 7, and one with Ubuntu.
Before installing Ubuntu I had PCLinuxOS then I got a book on learning Linux that is Ubuntu specific so I formatted it and installed Ubuntu 9.
My problem is:
When I boot up I get a WINDOWS bootloader first that lists:
Windows 7
Ubuntu
Then when I click Ubuntu I get the GRUB bootloader.
I've tried reinstalling Grub. I've also tried SuperGrub but none of the options worked, most returned error 15.
So I want ONLY GRUB to show up when booting. From there I think I can edit the grub file to set a timeout of 3-5 seconds, with Windows 7 as DEFAULT boot (Do I need to type "setactive" under my Windows 7 entry to do this part?)
On my netbook (I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Remix, 10.04) the default option in the Grub menu is Ubuntu. Problem: I'd prefer it to be Windows 7.
I've tried using Startup Manager, which I've used successfully in the past. The program loads fine and lets me change all of the options, and saves and closes fine. But when I restart, the bootloader begins with Ubuntu and a 10 second timeout instead of Windows 7 and a 3 second timeout.
I've also tried editing etc/default/grub and, again, I was able to change it and save it without a problem (default menu item: 4, default timeout: 3). I also did a 'sudo update-grub' to try to get it to stick.
Still nothing. Every time I start up the computer, it's set on Ubuntu 10.04 and a 10 second timeout.
Awhile back, I made my desktop a hackintosh. The only way to boot it was Chameleon, which I was totally fine with because it looked nice. Currently, I removed OS X, and now only have Windows 7 and Ubuntu (10.04) installed. My gripe is that GRUB2 looks butt-ugly... it's still the basic white-text on black-background, without any graphics or anything. Is it possible to remove GRUB2 and replace it with Chameleon? Or maybe can Ubuntu start using Chameleon as the bootloader in future releases?
View 6 Replies View Relatedwhen i select Ubuntu from the boot menu (I'm dual Booting with win7) I get an error message see the attached file for the message. it then takes about 3-5 minutes until i get to the Ubuntu log in screen
View 9 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Lubuntu to a USB. It was up and running and worked fine, however, upon exiting and going to boot into windows, I noticed it had installed a GRUB bootloader. I use whole disk encryption on windows, which has its own bootloader, so I can't be having some other bootloader on the PC interfering with this. I used my rescue disk to restore my WDE bootloader, but the USB stick will not boot now.
I also tried using pendrivelinux but this copies the live cd version onto the USB stick and nothing saves when you log off.installing Lubuntu to USB without a boot loader?
What is the preferred bootloader with Ubuntu 10.04 and windows 7, when multiple booting also with Vista and XP all on one hard drive and each on separate partitions? All are installed except Ubuntu and now boot with the windows boot manager. I have heard that if you install grub 2 on the MBR, then boot windows 7, that it will replace the grub boot code with windows boot code automatically. So is it best to use that NeoSmart EasyBCD tool to add Ubuntu in to the windows boot manager, and can I install grub on the boot sector of Ubuntu's root partition ?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have two installs on the same drive but different partitions. First I installed XBMC live which is based on Ubuntu (I don't know the exact verion but I think it's in the 9.x).Then I installed full Ubuntu 10.04 on another partition. Now it uses grub2 off the second partition. I configured it to boot XBMC as default and I've had no issues with it. However in the end I rarely use Ubuntu since this is really HTPC. I thought maybe it would be cool to check emails and do some web browsing on my TV, but it turns out I prefer just using a regular computer for that. So I want to delete the partition, but I'm worried doing so will make the system not boot anymore unless if I reinstall XBMC live, I don't want to do that either since I've got it configured all properly and I don't want to mess that up. So I believe I have to change the MBR to point to the XBMC partition although I haven't quite figured out how to do that.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've got a pc which used to have windows xp on it but i totally wiped the hard drive so its got nothing on it. i downloaded ubuntu 10.10 from the ubuntu website and burnt the image to a cd. i boot from this cd on the pc and it comes up with ubuntu try now or install. so i go install, wipe harddrive and install over it.
everything installs great until the very end, where it says fatal error, grub-install could not install boot loader. the pc has 40gb hdd (plenty of room), is connected to the internet so i dont know what is wrong. something with partitioning?
I am installing version 10.10. Does it matter where I install the bootloader? There are selections for the entire device and each partition. I have Windows 7 on /dev/sda1 and Ubuntu on /dev/sda3. The last time I tried this I couldn't go back to Windows 7 even after using the grub-update commands.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI tried to install Ubuntu 11.04 via .iso + USB key to my Asus EeePC 1000HE. This computer comes with two partitions already on the hard drive so I installed to the empty one, to dual-boot with Windows XP on the other. Installation seemed to work, but after resetting, the computer always boots straight to Windows, not Ubuntu or an OS list.From my Ubuntu boot USB, sudo fdisk -l shows that the installation wrote to the partition successfully.From Windows, the partition appears to have disappeared.So it seems that the installation worked except that I have no way to boot to Ubuntu.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy setup is like this:
* Installed Windows 7 on primary (SATA) hard drive
* Installed Ubuntu 11.04 on secondary (IDE) hard drive
I've worked with Wubi before, and I liked it so much, I decided to go full scale with Ubuntu. However, I think I've missed an option in the setup, because Grub has now taken over my bootloader. I tried reverting to the Windows loader with EasyBCD, but booting Ubuntu from there is impossible, since it doesn't show itself. By the way, I don't really understand EasyBCD, so that makes it even harder. Anyway, what I'm trying to accomplish here, is to get a bootloader which uses Windows as default and Ubuntu as secondary OS. How do I do this?
I installed Fedora 15 alongside Ubuntu, only to discover that it doesn't play nice with Ubuntu and this means that even though I formatted the Fedora Partition and made it into a new one, (i needed around a 7gb space for video editing files etc, so it is optimised for this). Anyway, that's off topic. Even though all traces of Fedora are gone, everyone time I go to boot from the HardDrive, it goes into Fedora's starting screen (the blue one with the loading icon) and then says it failed and gives a little command line.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have seen multiple others with this problem, I now have it too. I had Ubuntu 10.10 installed on my entire disk, then I installed Fedora 15 with it. The resizing-the-disk went smoothly, everything is great, but now when I turn on my machine, I get no grub, no boot loader, nothing. I just get thrown right into Fedora. I saw on a few other posts that if you manage to get into Ubuntu, you can open a terminal and type something along the lines of sudo grub update, and that would do the trick. The only issue is that I can't even get into ubuntu. I also was told that if you boot from a livecd you can edit the boot config, or view it, or something. I'm pretty new to all this "bootloader grub" jazz, and am hopelessly confused. How do I make it so that upon startup, I am able to choose between Ubuntu and Fedora?
View 9 Replies View RelatedOn this particular machine I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 & Open SuSe from the first hard drive & LinuxMint 9 plus Mandriva 2010 on the second drive. I've found out from posting elsewhere on this site that the Ubuntu family & Suse use different versions of GRUB so one may not boot the other. Ubuntu's boots itself, Mint 9 & Suse but not Mandriva, Mandriva's boots itself & Suse, Suse returns the same favour. So my work-around has been to install the Mandriva bootloader onto a floppy & Ubuntu's onto the MBR.
Now, the issue is I want Mint 9 to be the default but when I try to edit the menu/ist file using gedit all I get is a blank page, no data.