Had XP installed on 300GB HD. Installed 10.04, shrinking 300GB XP partition down to 250GB, freeing up 45GB ext4 partition for / and 5GB partition for swap. Install went fine, and I see XP on the boot menu, but when I try to boot to XP, I get a blank screen with a cursor flashing in the upper lect hand corner of the screen. Ubuntu boots without any problems. how to get XP working again?
View 9 RepliesCan Ubuntu install and boot from external HD while still booting windows off internal HD?In an attempt to spread Ubuntu my friend wants to use ubuntu off an external HD and still have windows fully operational on the internal HD. Questions:1) Can Ubuntu install on external HD without tricky mounting methods and if so how doabout it?2) The bois have the capability to boot from usb, will grub work?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Ubuntu on a machine that already has Windows 7 on one partition. Obviously I intend to install it on the other free partition. So I downloaded the iso burnt it onto the disk and pop in the disk and the boot the machine. The installation screen comes up I selected the first option (Try Ubuntu without installation), I just see a prompt after a few seconds and then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. Unable to detect a signal, The monitor goes into standby. The same thing happens if I use "install Ubuntu" option as well. I downloaded minimal install version Ubuntu and tried to install with that. since its old school installation, the installation completed without any errors, but when I restart the grub come up and when I select to boot into Ubuntu, I see the same behavior i.e. the screen goes blank and never boots to anything. This is a machine on which I was using 10.4 until yesterday.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm having a frustrating time trying to install Ubuntu as a dual boot with Windows 7 on a new Acer Aspire 5750.The initial install proceeded without incident until an error along the lines of "Cannot install GRUB to /dev/sda".I continued without installing GRUB, and attempted to install GRUB from the live CD:Code:sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mntsudo grub-setup -d /mnt/boot/grub /dev/sdaThis installed GRUB, but only linking to my Windows 7 partition (sda2).
View 5 Replies View RelatedI tried to install 11.3 on my acer aspire 7530 notebook to have dual boot with xp.
I made 4 partitions: one for xp, and the three for linux were made automatically.Before installation I got the warning that the partition wasn't entirely below 128 gb, I installed anyway to give it a try.
The installation froze at 92% and after the laptop wouldn't boot.
Now I've formatted the hard disk and installed windows on a partition leaving a free un formatted partition of 100 gb.
Installing Ubuntu 10.10 desktop.on a Highpoint rocketraid 2642.Installing Ubuntu, it does not find the drive?How do I install the drivers to install and boot after the installation from the raid drives?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've installed 11.04 64bit several times, and here's what happens. On install and reboot,seems to work fine. Then on 2nd boot, 2 things:1) grub has changed, the count-down counter is gone.2) will not boot in normal mode, I have to boot in reduced graphics mode, and even then only boots about 50% of the time, and then hangs on shut down.Help! I'm running 10.10, and it's got problems on my new laptop too, and was hoping 11.04 would get me where I need to be. I do NOT want to go back to windows.Some more info:Dell Vostro 3550, with Intel i3, and Radeon discrete graphics.3GB DRAM
View 8 Replies View RelatedI downloaded and burned to CD the final version of 10.04. I am trying to install Ubuntu on my 4 years old Sony Viao laptop which is currently running with Linux Mint 7. The Sony is set to boot from the CD. Starting the Sony with the Ubuntu CD in the drive does not result in Ubuntu starting up as I expected. Whatever I have tried only resulted in the iso showing up on the desktop but it does not start. When I open the CD I can see all the files but I have no idea if any of those files will start the installing process manually. I did burn more copies and always at slower speeds but to no avail, I also checked to make sure that the boot sequence does allow the machine to boot from the disk.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just installed Ubuntu 10.04 onto my netbook (HP Compaq Mini 311c) using unetbootin and the iso downloaded off the main site, but it is not booting. It just hangs.When booting into recovery mode, it hangs on the line
Code:
[ 1.533998] b43-pci-bridge 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[AX3A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
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I'm pretty much a noob to linux, besides installing one or two previous versions just out of curiosity, but I've never had problems like I've had today.My computer is pretty old but I imagine it can run it fine once I figure all this out (Asus A7n8X-X, 1 GB ram, Radeon 9600, AMD Athlon 1.16ghz). Listing for possible compatibility issues.Every disc I've burned today (and these were burned on multiple different computers.and multiple linux distros - Ubuntu 10.04, Linux Mint 9) has worked exactly one time before giving me a screen full of errors.
Example: I burn 10.04, put it in, boots fine. Go to install, so I restart, it gives me errors. I figured it may be the disc. Went on another computer, downloaded the iso again, burned it again... put it in, boots up once, then I can't get it to work after a restart. Same exact thing happens with mint.With Ubuntu I get the error of "BUG: soft lockup CPU #0 stuck for 61s!" and with Linux Mint I get "Unable to locate package files", "Error: Unexpectedly disconnected from boot status daemon" and a bunch of other errors. (Would go into more detail but I have no idea how to save the logs that scroll by during this.)
So I set up a machine with 1 160 GB HDD, downloaded 10.10 and inserted the CD.I performed a regular installation wiping the whole HDD.The system rebooted but it began setup from the CD again.I removed the CD, rebooted but all I get is a prompt.I cannot type, no Ubuntu logo... nothing.I ran the "Try Ubuntu" and when system's up I can see that in the "160 GB Filesystem" there is an Ubuntu setup.
View 1 Replies View Relatedif there's any other similar thread but I couldn't find it.My pc is:foxconn 915m12 gv 6lspentium 4 3.06 x64GB RAMnvidia 9500I've tried installing several ubuntu products (32 as well as 64bit) but I simply cannot boot the cd. Some error occurs. I'll post back the error as soon as I can.The CD starts booting to enter liveCD mode but as it loads the files it halts and the few last lines say some kind of error happened. to me as this motherboard is creating the problem but you would know better
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan anyone think of a reason that an Acer notebook would run the USB installer perfectly at native resolution, but then fail to start X on reboot? All attemps to run startx will only allow low graphics mode.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI install 10.10 64 bit onto my home DIY server. but after i install the Ubuntu and boot from that HDD, it hangs on a black screen with a single flashing white line on the left hand side. I have installed the OS on a 80 gig HDD, that is connected via a esata to sata cable. the onboard sata ports are filled up by 6 2tb HDD and i plan to have these HDD running on ZFS-fuse. But i cant boot into the OS after the install on to the 80 gig HDD.
View 4 Replies View Related11.04 ubuntu continue loop boot never see anything just boots black screen then reboots. When I remove the gforce 5500 nvidia card no problem will boot up from the disk.Can install it I have it installed now without the the nvidia card. Ubuntu 10.10 had no problem.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 from USB stick. I used System>Admin>USB Start up Disk Creator and a 9.10 .ISO version to create the bootable USB stick.
When I plug my USB key into my computer, my computer doesn't boot from it. I tried on several other computers and none of them boot from my USB key. The bios settings on all my computers boot from removable media first.
I repeated the above steps with a different USB key and I still can't boot from the USB key. When I browse the USB key directories, I can see all the necessary files to install ubuntu.
Last year, I didn't have trouble installing ubuntu 9.04 from USB key. Not sure what I'm doing wrong this time.
Can anyone tell me how to trouble shoot this problem?
few months back I did a clean install of 9.10 from 9.04 (wanted to clear room so decided against upgrade path) and since then I've been really struggling to boot into it. I've used Ubuntu since 7.04 and never had any issues with it - these issues have only started happening since my upgrade to 9.10. And I was hoping that 9.10 would be the release I could persuade her indoors to not boot into Windows XP!
Anyway my problem is that when I choose Ubuntu 9.10 from the boot list it gets to the point where the Ubuntu symbol is splashed up (with the brown background and the light shining on it) and then the little progress bar underneath freezes and the whole box freezes. It doesn't respond to any keypresses like the "magic" ones and I have mashed CTRL ALT F1 plus others keys repeatedly. Caps lock doesn't respond either so looks like completely frozen, though worth noting that the hard drive still sounds like it's spinning.
I've tried with every boot command under the sun (noapci, nosplash, quiet, noapic etc.) and none of them make any difference bar two - apci=noirq starts the desktop occasionally but with no windows manager, and irqpoll stops the freeze but it never loads the desktop or manager. Both these last two commands work about 1 in 10 boots or so but usually it freezes. I can also sometimes press Escape as soon as the Ubuntu symbol shows on screen and sometimes (about 1 in 5 tries) it gets into the desktop, but only if I hit it before it freezes up. The above does point to an IRQ issue but wondering what has changed since 8.10 and 9.04 which worked perfectly?
I've also booted into recovery mode and updated/fixed packages but the same thing happens with the recent 2.6.31-19 generic as well as -17, -14 etc. As per above I'm dual booting with Windows XP as the default boot option (wife's orders) but don't think this is related.
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 on a Compaq Evo N200. The problem is that it doesn't have a CD drive on board, and it only supports booting from USB floppy drives- not USB flash or CD drives. I have access to a flash drive, floppy drive and CD drive, all USB externals. I've tried a couple different floppy boot loaders with little success. I understand that it also supports network boot, so this might be an option. What is the easiest way to get UNR running on this laptop?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to install ubuntu with dual boot.
I already installed the xp.
I followed this step.
Code:
Hard disk partition:
Selected first option "install them side by side, choosing between them at each startup." to get dual boot.
All went fine until when i click the install button(setp 7 of 7).
Installation window appeared and showed 1% in the progress bar.
Then one blank screen appeared and go to Ubuntu Desktop.
I am considering buying a netbook and installing the netbook remix from a bootable USB. During the installation, does the installer give me the option to create a dual boot scenario and keep the windows 7 as a partition? If it does not, what is the best way to clone the windows 7 install and can I put it on a usb to boot and install from in the future?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have Vista on my Samsung R60 + and have installed Ubuntu. On start up I get the dual boot option, select Ubuntu which then goes to completeing install etc, get some HD activity then nothing.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI can install Ubuntu 10.4 LTS using the "noapci" option. Installation runs, I configure, then restart. I remove the cd and restart to boot from hard drive and I get the "IO-APIC no timer" error again.
How do I fix?
I have a PC with 3 hard disks, one IDE (30GB) plus two Sata (80 & 180 GB). The IDE is the disk master. Previously I had Ubuntu on the IDE disk, the smaller SATA for Windows XP and the larger SATA for all data. I recently decided to do a clean Windows install and thought that at the same time I'd swap the two OS disks. After I successfully installed the two systems (Ubuntu is Grub 2) I don't get any options presented at boot up. If I boot from hard disk and choose the IDE disk Windows books immediately. If I try to change the disk boot order in the BIOS to choose the Ubuntu disk, nothing happens. Any idea how to get my dual boot back?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu on my HP Laptop. The laptop had 4 partitions, one of them called HP TOOLS. I thought i didnt need this, so i simply deleted it so i could install Ubuntu. I had not made any system images so i couldnt restore it if i had any problems. After I had installed ubuntu, i just wanted to boot into windows to make sure everything was right..IT WASNT..It failed to boot at the Starting Windows screen, and it took me to an "Insert a Windows Repair disk page"So i downloaded a windows 7 repair disk, and popped it in to the machine. The system repair didn't recognize any problems, and it just said restart the machine and everything would be fine.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have ubuntu 8.04 mini with rtai-3.6.1 patch. sterday i installed the insserv and the problem starts.I can't shutdown, reboot after the installation thru terminal and i get the output as reboot and shutdown not found.i tried the shutdown with lxrt panel manager(default gui shutdown) it only logout , after i shutdown just pressing the button..i can't boot into ununtu....i installed the insserv thru
Code:
sudo apt-get install insserv
when the installation finished sucessfully, it indicate remove some of the packages
[code]....
I had to un-install Ubuntu as there were too many things that didn't work. Bummer, I wanted to like it and use it.Anyway it has left me with a screen at boot-up that I must choose between Windows and Ubuntu, that counts down automatically about30 seconds and then finally boots into Windows as the default. How can I get rid of this screen and go back to booting up into Windows normally?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have two hard disks: 160GB and 1TB. I had Ubuntu 10.04 installed on the 1TB drive (sdb). Then I installed Windows Xp on the 160GB drive (sda) following which I could no longer boot into Ubuntu (as Windows XP boots straight away). I have already tried to repair GRUB2 using the Live CD using the commands:
# fdisk -l (shows sdb5 to be the 'Linux' partition)
# mkdir /media/sdb5
# mount /dev/sdb5 /media/sdb5
# grub-install --root-directory=/media/sdb5 /dev/sdb
The above procedure shows success but I still don't get the GRUB menu.
I installed Ubuntu 10.04/32-bit desktop on a system with a working Vista x64 installation. I had problems installing Ubuntu. I tried wubi, which didn't work at all... just booted right into Vista with no ubuntu boot option. I tried doing a full Ubuntu install, and it never gave me the "install side by side" option. Finally, I shrunk my Vistax64 boot partition to give some room for Ubuntu. Ultimately, I installed Ubuntu 10.04/32-bit desktop. I had to use the "Manully create partitions" option during installation, and created an ext4 root partition and a swap partition. The Ubuntu install worked but now I'm unable to boot into Vista x64.
After the Ubuntu 10.04 / 32-bit desktop install, the Grub2 boot loader came up. It boots into Ubuntu just fine, but when I select Vista I get a very fast blue screen, then it reboots. I tried "last known good" on the vista boot, didn't work I tried a safe mode vista boot, but get the blue screen right after it loads the "crcdisk.sys" file.
I just installed Ubuntu on my girlfriends laptop. The install went fine, but after it tried to restart, it wouldn't boot into Ubuntu. I was reading a thread about someone with a similar problem, and replied in that thread as well, but no responses to me yet. One person said to go here and run the script and post the output. I did that, and this is what I got code...
View 9 Replies View Relatedinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 with my old System ( Windows 7 ) , the installation was successful , but when i run my pc i just find windows 7 without Ubuntu
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