I downloaded and used usb to try ubuntu.I found I then cannot open Windows XP now.I read that you can change the start order in the grub file but when I typed in the terminal sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst the grub file only has grubenv in it 1kb? Any thoughts on why this is so?
View 2 RepliesI've had Ubuntu 10.10 installed for a while and I recently cleared a partition to install Windows XP. However, when I load from the Windows XP boot CD, I get "7379one MB disk 0 at ID 0 on ?Bus 0 on atapi(Setup cannot access this disk)". I've tried just about everything
View 4 Replies View Relatedinstalled windows 7..then tried restoring grub using live cd....mounted partition somewhere else....then installed ubuntu again where it was installed previously and now grub is not detecting windows 7 but i am able use my windows files
used sudo update-grub2.
I do not know what to do, i cannot load windows partition. it just loads grub again. this must have been something that happened when i upgraded to the 10.04 or w/e. can someoen help me out with what i can do to stop this or fix it. maybe i can reinstall but i want to know what will work first, i do not have a lot of time to fool with my computer like this again. i spent a week getting ubuntu on my computer the first time so i do not ever want to spend that much time again especially in finals week. !
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a weird issue about url-handling: When I have an url in any application, and click it, firefox opens up in a NEW window, but does NOT open the url, instead the ubuntu-startpage...
This is totally against my settings: firefox is the default browser, and is set to open url's in a new tab. So, I have checked stuff in about:config, and even tried making an entire new profile. Checked evolutions settings, but too bad, nothing there.
I am actually facing a vague problem here. I was previously running Windows XP and Ubuntu . Ubuntu was installed Windows XP The problem is
1. First I tried to do some disk partitioning. That ended up with some error.
2. Ignoring that, I went to install Windows 7 over Windows XP but I was not able to proceed with Windows 7 , because the partitions were corrupted.
3. So I used Ubuntu LIVE CD (Grub was lost at this point )and used 'testdisk' and recovered the partitions.
4. Now installed the Windows 7 successfully.
5. Now again I moved to Ubuntu Live CD to write the GRUB. After which I tried restarting
6. Now Ubuntu is booting perfectly as before. But the problem is with Windows
7. The GRUB loader instead of showing Windows 7, it shows Windows XP !!! . and there is no other entry for windows. When I tried opening it, it says "error, cant read file" and further inout moves back to the grub loader list again.
"How do I change the entry to Windows 7 from Windows XP and boot Windows7 successfully " I tried it a couple of times, same thing happens . So how to change the entry?
I had 9.10 installed and I did an upgrade to 10.04. However I cannot see anymore my Windows Vista partition with grub.. I have a Toshiba laptop Satellite p305.This is my boot script output:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in [code].......
how to be able to add windows 7 to my grub menu or to even be able to boot to windows 7. I am currently unable to do it and my system just automatically goes straight to ubuntu. I've tried holding down SHIFT during startup and all that appears in my list is ubuntu entries and a memtest entry. My windows 7 files are still intact because I can see the drive through ubuntu and see all my files. I am trying to have Windows 7 on one hard disk that is 640GB and ubuntu on a second hard disk that is 160GB
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Ive been running windows 7/Ubuntu dualboot for some years now and never had any problems.Some months ago I got a new Patriot Inferno ssd. Ofc the first thing I did was to installl windows 7, it had no problems, ran fast and smooth. Then when I reinstalled grub I started to get error when trying to start windows, the logo never apeared and all I got was the message "Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software"Status: 0x00.00F" "Info: The boot selection failed because a required device was inaccessible.". It does not matter what order I install windows and ubuntu in, or how many times Ive tried to reinstall grub. Windows 7 will not work while I have grub/windows installed. Right now Ive got them installed on separate drives, ubuntu on the ssd and windows on a partition on a 1tb hdd. Unfortunately I need to have windows for .net programing and gaming..
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So basically this happened: i have 9.10 on my dual boot machine (ubuntu WinXP) and did a package update 2 days ago for the first time in 3 months. Kernel .21 was installed after having .17
Dont know if this part had anything to do but ill tell you anyway: during the update the computer (ibm Thinkpad x31) froze. After restart i did "dpkg --reconfigure -a" or something similar that apt-get told me to do.
now after rebooting the Grub2menu does not list any OSes... only a Memtest entry. i rebooted using
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grub> linux (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic root=/dev/sda7
grub> initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-9-generic
grub> boot
and did
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I've using RedHat/Fedora for years now, and every now and then I encounter the following situation :
I open a folder and it's empty. The folder was containing files and I'm 100% sure I didn't deleted them myself. Each time the folder is deep inside the hierarchy and is among other untouched folders. Sometimes it's a folder I never use, sometimes it's a folder I use almost everyday. The missing content is not large (a few regular files).
I'm currently running F13 but I've seen this behavior before on previous versions. This is kind of scary all my work is there and my backups are also done on a a linux backup server.
I'm puzzled, I cannot see any specificities to these folders, I had no crash or cold reboot, nothing I see can explain that. Could it be related to ext3?
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sudo apt-get upgrade
Lots of text (Reading database. dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: unable to open files list file for package `grub-common': Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
i've been using ubuntu with wubi, and I'd like to install it on my new hard drive (so windows is on one hdd and ubuntu is on another). afaik, grub will be installed on the hdd w/ ubuntu, and i have to set it to recognize the other (windows) hdd. assuming that i want to get rid of ubuntu and just use windows, what steps do I have to take to do so? (if grub is only on the ubuntu hdd, then would I just have to format it?)
View 2 Replies View RelatedBefore this command used to work "CTRL+ALT+d" it use to minimized all the open windows.
View 9 Replies View RelatedMy laptop got broken so I extracted my hard drive to use as an external. The problem is the computer I am using has windows xp on it and my external has also a windows xp, ubuntu and kubuntu. I need to have the xp from my external running because i use it for .net development. How I can have 2 windows on grub with root (h0,0) and (h1,0). My ubuntu is (h1,6) and kubuntu is (h1,3).
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been dual booting for years now between XP and Ubuntu Dapper -> My computer has a number of hard drives but on the main Hard Drive I have a Windows 7 partition and a Ubuntu Partition and a Swap partition.I've installed Karmic on it's partition twice now, I know the disc is fine because I have checked it for errors and installed it on other computers.
I have tried setting up the Boot Loader from Windows 7, but this yields a message "Cannot load from harddisk". GRUB doesn't install what so ever.Do I need to specify where GRUB gets installed as Windows 7 uses a different Boot Loader? Is this a Karmic / Windows 7 / Hardware bug?
After I installed lubuntu Windows XP is not showing up as an option in GRUB (boot menu).Only lubuntu and memory test.Windows partition is there and untouched, because when I run G Parted I see it, and it is the same size as before, and still flagged as 'boot'I tried running my XP-OS-CD in repair and the repair CD sees and identifies the Windows OS, and I can gain admin rights, but I don't know the commands (within CD) to repair the boot menu so windows XP is an option when booting up.
View 6 Replies View Relatedfirst i partitioned my hdd into two partitions and then i installed windows 7 on the second partition all went fine so i decided to install Linux on the first partition installation went fine but after that GRUB could not boot windows 7.
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Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x05d67c23 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 12748 102398278+ 5 Extended /dev/sda2 12749 18770 48371715 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda5 1 12224 98189217 83 Linux /dev/sda6 12225 12748 4208998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Currently I have ubuntu 10.04 LTS as the only OS.I have two partitions one for ubuntu and it is ext by default for ubuntu's files.The other is empty NTFS. (yes, it is formatted in NTFS but I haven't saved anything yet on it).The problem is: I want to install win xp sp3 on this empty ntfs partition safely (without losing ubuntu).My friend told me ubuntu will be lost even if I didn't touch its own partition.
View 5 Replies View RelatedThis is partly a note to myself for the future and a guide to anyone who experiences similar issues.
So, I had to reinstall Windows XP since my previous installation gave me a blue screen error due to reasons unfathomable. Naturally, this deleted the GNU Grub and I could not login to my Fedora.
I read that apparently booting from a DVD installation offers an option to enter the rescue mode. I did not have a DVD, I only had the LiveCD so I had to figure out a way to reinstall Grub from the LiveCD. The following method seemed to do the trick.
Run the LiveCD and open Terminal.
1. Find the partition where the Grub Stage1 is code...
after doing an upgrade to 10.4 and updating grub I get this message. how do I address this
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I downloaded wubi.exe from Opera 10.61. The file downloads ok, but then refuses to do anything when I click on the file.
I also switched to my IE version, and tried to run the file from there. Again, I get the hourglass symbol for a couple of seconds, then nothing.
I'm running Windows 98. I know, I should have a newer version, but finances can't manage that right now. In the meantime, is there a manual way to run the installer for wubi and get it to work?
I installed a dual boot system by installing Win7 and then Ubuntu 9.1. All fine until I needed to reinstall Win7. Now Windows has made itself the only OS. I presume that it has supperceided the GRUB. How (where) can I put the Grub back - (bearing in mind that the only way to run Ubuntu is to run it fron CD)?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently had to reinstall Windows XP and as usual it destroyed my grub setup. I have done this before, so I simply booted from a live CD and typed this in the terminal:
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sudo grub
> root (hd0,2)
> setup(hd0)
> quit
Now, the problem with it this time is that in the past in these situations I had only Ubuntu Feisty and Windows XP installed on my machine. But I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a separate partition (retaining the old 7.04 installation separately) since I last had to reinstall XP. Doing the above procedure restores my grub sttings to my pre-9.04 installation (i.e. I only get Ubuntu 7.04 and Windows XP in the grub menu).
i did a fresh install of 10.04 on my asus 1005ha netbook (first-gen 1005ha, if it matters), and it works great. However, grub does NOT detect my windows partition. In gparted, the partition is recognized as "unknown". I can't mount it in ubuntu.
This is what fdisk gives me:
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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My windows 7 is not corrupted. it is also not virus-infected. I know what i am doing, and i know my windows is fine. it has been running fine prior to installing ubuntu. I'm just saying this becuz i noticed that viruses are a common response to similar problems like this.
I'm new to the world of dual booting Ubuntu. My computer is currently running windows 7 64-bit, and I'm trying to install Ubuntu 32-bit to run beside it. So I've created a boot disk, and I try to install Ubuntu. The weird thing is when I get to the frame that says "Prepare disk space" it correctly shows that I have windows 7 on the computer, but it shows it's on the wrong drive. In fact within the Ubuntu installer it doesn't even show the physical drive that windows is on, it only find the other two drives. If I load up System > Administration > Disk Utility then I can see all 3 physical hard drives and all the partitions on them, but not under the Ubuntu installer.
So I tried installing Ubuntu onto one of the other physical hard drives and that seemed to go just fine. The only problem is now when I boot, the only way I can swap operating systems is to go into my BIOS and change the boot order of my hard drives. If the hard drive with Windows is higher in the boot priority, it will boot windows, no problem. If the hard drive with Ubuntu on it is higher, then it takes me to grub, where it correctly shows windows 7 and ubuntu. Only problem is when I choose windows 7 all I get is a blinking cursor and nothing happens.
If I choose Ubunutu it boots correctly and everything works. So in a way I do kind of have them both working, but it'd be nice not to have to go into my BIOS just to change operating systems. I'm guessing that grub's problem is that the Ubuntu installer identifies the wrong drive that Windows is installed on, so when I pick Windows from grub it goes to the wrong drive. Can I fix grub manually? Or is there some compatibility issue between Windows 7 64-bit and Ubuntu 32-bit that is causing this conflict?
i had a dual boot xp/ubuntu first. later i had to format and reinstall xp. this deleted the grub bootloaderplease let me know, how to fix this! please make it simple . i have the live cd, but i don't have internet connectivity in ubuntu.
View 1 Replies View RelatedEvery other guide I've seen is confusing the heck outta me.
I had ubuntu, and no other OS, then I installed win7, and now I want GRUB to be my MBR.
I had Windows XP installed on my PC then bought a new HDD, installed Windows 7 & Ubuntu 10.10 in dual boot, later I added the Windows XP HDD as an external USB then typed "update-grub".
At boot up the drive appears at the bottom of the GRUB menu but when I select Windows XP it gets as far as the XP splash screen, after a few seconds there is a flash of blue screen with some writing on it then the PC re-boots. Here is grub.cfg:
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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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Background: I dual boot Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7. I use an HP laptop.
So here's the deal. My Windows 7 partition got a virus a few weeks back. So, I removed the partition and replaced that partition with a squeaky clean version of Windows 7. Then, since Windows had installed, I could not get grub to work. So I booted up my disk and installed a third partition, which was a second Ubuntu partition, which I plan on deleting. I did this so I could get grub back. Now I have grub back but no Windows. I can mount Windows from both partitions. Then, I modified the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file to add windows. It showed up in grub but when I booted into it, it says "bootmgr not found." I also did an update on grub and that didn't work. I want to be able to boot into that windows partition.