Ubuntu :: Hpgo Dualboot Gone Wrong?
Sep 28, 2010I dualbooted ubuntu 10.04 on my hpg60 laptop and now vista can't boot it goes for about 10 seconds the restarts. help this is parents laptop and I don't want to ruin it.
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Ubuntu :: 11.04 Dualboot W/ Windows 7 ?
Jul 28, 2011I've been trying to dual boot with Windows 7. I installed it on my backup harddrive. I've tried booting it from there but no luck. And I'm not seeing a boot from message.
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May 3, 2010Ubuntu and Vista dual boot with grub being the primary bootloader. So, I just updated 10.04 today and when a window appeared asking things something along the lines of where to install grub, I didn't know what to do. So after reading the help box say that if you're not sure (which I was not) to click all of them, I did just that. Now when I go to the vista option in grub all that appears is a blinking cursor followed by bleak disheartening nothing until restarting. I can boot into ubuntu just fine and can still mount the windows partition from inside of ubuntu, but cannot boot Vista.
I had read other threads that usually asked for the user to run "sudo fdisk -l", to which the results are:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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Also someone directed another user to /mnt to look for windows related files, which in my case are there.
Ubuntu :: Win 7 Unable To Hibernate Under Dualboot
May 8, 2010I have recently installed OpenSuse with GRUB boot-loader on my Vaio FW series laptop. I had to uninstall it because it caused Windows 7 to be unable to hibernate. I installed other distros (Fedora 11 and others) and the same problem recurred. This lead me to the conclusion that the problem is with the boot-loader (as my research suggested)..It has been months now, and I have not found any proper solutions to this yet. Linking this to Ubuntu, I recently downloaded and burned Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, however, I am still reluctant to install it until I know a solution is available. Has anyone had Linux-Windows 7 dualboot and also faced problems with hibernation/stand-by?
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Aug 28, 2010I had on my notebook Windows 7 and Win Vista. I deleted partition with Vista and installed Ubuntu, but now when I turn on my notebook Ubuntu starts automatically, there is no option to choose Ubuntu or Windows 7. Why ? What should I do ? there is still that partition with Windows 7 I did not delete it.
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Oct 21, 2010I have a problem installing ubuntu 10.10 (64 bit) with dualboot together with windows 7.
The situation is a follows: on the pc is windows 7 (home premium) installed, the windows bootloader is in the MBR and THIS CANNOT BE CHANGED (it's not a private pc).
I wanted to do this the way I have done with the previous ubuntu realeaes I used (8.04 and 9.04): install everything normaly and only tell the installer to install GRUB into /dev/sda5 (root-partition of the ubuntu-System). Then I used
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To copy the bootsector in a file and integrate this file into the Windows Bootloader. The problem is: this file has only zeros inside (00hex), so it seems, that there is no GRUB written into the bootsector of the linux-partition.
The whole procudure works without any problems using Windows 7 and ubuntu 9.04, but I want to have the new release of ubuntu!
Ubuntu :: Partitioning For Dualboot With Windows7?
Mar 4, 2011I've got a new box (i.e. I can blow away everything on it) with
CPU=Atom 330
nVidia GeForce 9400M
4 GB RAM
single drive, single partition=250 GB
Ubuntu 10.10 installed
The box will primarily be used for ubuntu, but my GF also wants to stream Netflix on it. (I have not been able to sell her on the Amazon Instant Video--yet, anyway.) Since Netflix doesn't run on Linux, I need to install a Windows or OSX. I have media for w7 and wXP. I'm planning to install w7 on it, just because that's newer. Is there a reason to install wXP instead for this usecase?
Given w7, I can choose to dualboot or virtualize. I'm told the Atom doesn't virtualize well, so I'm planning to dualboot. I'm told that, when dualbooting linux and windows, one wants to partition first, then install windows, then install linux, so I'm planning to do that.
how to partition for this? My plan is currently to make 5 partitions: 2 primary partitions (one for each OS) and 1 extended partition (to hold linux swap and the homes for w7 and ubuntu)
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primary partitions:
system (c:) for w7 = 20 GB
root for ubuntu = 20 GB
extended partition:
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Ubuntu Servers :: Can I Install 3 OS Like A Dualboot
Apr 10, 2011I have a computer with Windows XP and Xubuntu 10.10 on it. And I would also like to install Ubuntu Server on it, with all OS side by side (Win XP + Xubuntu + Ubuntu Server). Can I do this. Or is the dualboot technologie limited to 2 OS? So I actually want a "triple boot".
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Feb 8, 2010I just tried a dual installation. Win7 sits on my internal HDD, Ubuntu has a partition on my external HDD. The external Hdd is set up to have ~900GB of NTFS file storage and ~100GB for / (ext4) and a seperate swap partition. I partitioned it that way from the livecd installer. I have to say that I'm basically fresh out of ideas. I can boot Ubuntu 9.10 64bit just fine from a Usb stick. Installation also worked fine, I had the installer install Grub on the external Hdd. I am quite sure that it actually *is* on the external hdd, since unplugging it as well as changing the boot order to internal hdd first results in a straight boot to Win7.
Anyways, booting from the external device, I get as far as the grub OS selection prompt. Windows 7s loader can be started without any problem from here. However, choosing Ubuntu (recovery or not) results in... nothing. The system plain simply freezes up (I gave it some time) and can only be reactivated by resetting it. So far, I tried manually editing the boot entry by pressing "e". I changed the root entry from 2,2 to 2,0 to 2,1 to 2,3 and 2,5. Afterwards I tried booting by pressing ctrl+x. The result always stays the same. No boot, frozen system. Pc: C2D E6750, Gf8800GT,4GB Ram. Pastebin of grub.cfg: [URL]
Ubuntu / Apple :: Can I Dualboot System Using Bootcamp
Mar 23, 2011I tried looking trough the forums for an answer but I couldn't find it.
I want to try and dual boot Linux with my Mac but I'm not exactly sure how . This was my brothers computer then he gave it to me but he said that I MUST leave OSX installed. And uh.... He was dual-booting Vienna on it but I don't like Vienna so I want to get rid of that and put Ubuntu on.
Ubuntu :: Where And How To Install GRUB On System To Fix DualBoot
May 17, 2011I was running Ubuntu 11.04 next to Windows 7 but lost my DualBoot after re-installing my Windows 7 using a backup image. The Ubuntu Partition (/dev/sdb5) is unchanged. Windows 7 comes with a default Bootmanager Partition (dev/sdb1) in size of 105MB. Here my system (2 Harddisks)
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Ubuntu Installation :: Resizing Partitions After Dualboot?
Aug 17, 2011I am currently using Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. I saw Fedora had the new Gnome3, so I decided I might like to try that, My hard drive is about 230GB. Ubuntu currently has all of it, and I would like to make a small partition for Fedora. I know that during the Fedora install you can resize the current Ubuntu partition manually, very simple, gives you the size in MB, and you just shrink it, and Fedora takes up the remaining amount of space.
My actual question here, is how would I, if I should like Fedora 15 more than I thought I would, proceed to shrink the Ubuntu partition more, and increase the one for Fedora?
Ubuntu would have 200GB. Fedora would have 30GB. How do I go from this point, to having Ubuntu use 180GB, and Fedora having 60GB?
I realize there are lots and lots of guides already on the Ubuntu website for help with partitioning etc, but they all seem to be about first time install, or for doing so with windows. All I would like to do is use something like gparted to resize the Ubuntu partitions and expand the Fedora one.
General :: Install A Debian In Dualboot With Ubuntu?
Feb 1, 2011I plan to install a debian in dualboot with ubuntu (that I'm currently using). I would like to use the btrfs file system.
I know that for a single OS installed, I need to have a /boot partition (I don't think grub is able to load a btrfs partition). In my case the grub (v1.98) would stay on the ubuntu partition, not the debian one. So do I still need to have a different partition for /boot and the system ?
Ubuntu :: Dualboot With Windows 7 - No Errors - Just Blank Screen
Jan 4, 2010I tried using Wubi to install Ubuntu 9.10. It worked fine in the Windows part of it. After the restart, I got the ubuntu option. Selected it. Something about pressing ESC for more booting option came. Then two lines of something, and then a BLANK screen for the next hour. I hard rebooted then. Selected Ubuntu again, and pressed ESC and booted into Verbose mode. Still the blank screen ALWAYS comes. No errors. Just the blank screen. What am I supposed to do? I tried reinstalling through Wubi, but the BLANK SCREEN ALWAYS COMES. I am trying an online tutorial for dual booting Windows 7 along with Ubuntu, but the guy in the tutorial says just boot live. What is that? Like just setup your BIOS and put the cd in? I am gonna try it in sometime, after my cd is burned, but still, better if I get a reply before that.
Okay, I tried with the cd, selected the option of trying Ubuntu without installing, but again the BLANK SCREEN loves me, so it won't leave. Do you think I've got a corrupt copy of Ubuntu. It is the torrent, that is linked on their official website. Should I like redownload it and try? I really want to try out Ubuntu.
With the cd I also tried checking the cd for errors option on the screen, and that too showed no errors. I want my windows installation to stay but I want to try Ubuntu along too. Still I tried installing Ubuntu, without trying to let Windows stay or something, but still, obviously the BLANK SCREEN.
Ubuntu Installation :: Tripleboot With Vista+wubi+dualboot?
Mar 10, 2010Im currently a Windows Vista user, and would like to get test some linux distributions - Ubuntu is one of them, Ubuntu Studio is another. Iinstalling muliple OS's becomes overly complicated on my old vista machine. Therefore:
Can I simply turn a regular dualboot into a "fake" triple boot by adding wubi to Vista? Should wubi be installed before the dual boot distro or vice versa? Does it make any difference what the "real" dual boot distribution is? I would like to test Ubuntu Studio (not included in wubi) and OpenSUSE. Is either of them better to test first, because they do a better job in easily replacing an old distribution in a dualboot etc.?
Ubuntu Installation :: Dualboot - Install Vista Loader With 10.10?
Dec 5, 2010I want to dualboot my HP laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. The problem is that the harddrive had 4 primary partitions. So i had to delete the Recovery and HP TOOLS partions. I did that after creating my system recovry CDS. The "install alongside another operating system" option showed up. And i was really happy for about 1 minute until i discovered that it said Windows Vista loader! So now i have this:
sda 640GB harddrive
sda1 Windows 7 loader
sda2 Windows Vista loader
And when im trying to install a dualboot the Windows 7 loader dosent show up! It wants to install Vista loader but i dont have that operating system. I have read that 7 and Vista sometimes gets mixed up in GRUB can this be the case here? Is it safe for me to install Vista loader with Ubuntu 10.10?
Ubuntu Networking :: 10.10 No More Internet After Dualboot Windows Install
Dec 20, 2010I have a Dell XPS 420 with Ubuntu 10.10 (2.6.35-23-generic x86_64). My internet used to work (out of the box) without any problems, but after install of Windows Vista (Home Ed. 32bit), I am unable to use the internet in Ubuntu. The network card is a Linksys WMP600N Wireless-N PCI Adapter. In Windows it works without problems.
In ubuntu, the network manager indicates that I am connected to the network, and I have an IP address in the 192.168.* range. I am able to ping the router, but unable to ping outside addresses. I have not changed anything, but still my wireless connections has stopped working.
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Ubuntu :: How To Make 10.10 The Default Os When Booting In Dualboot Machine
May 10, 2011i have ubuntu 10.10 installed in dualboot with win7 on a asus 1201n netbook. the first os in the first black screen boot menu is win7, which means that it is the default os to boot if i don't use the arrow down to ubuntu. well, i had enough experience with ubuntu to decide that i want to defaultly boot into ubuntu.
does anybody know how i change it ? [there is no menu.lst file in 10.10, so i didn't find the way to do it]
Ubuntu :: Dualboot Grub Not Working After HD Firmware Upgrade?
Mar 22, 2010I have a dualboot system with Ubuntu and Windows 7 (grub bootloader). I updated the firmware in my HD, and now grub doesn't work. After POST, instead of getting the menu of OS options, I get "Non-system disk: press any key."After pressing a key, I get the Windows 7 loader, with only a Windows 7 OS option. Windows 7 boots fine, but I have no way to boot into Ubuntu.
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Mar 10, 2011I want to dualboot my Lenovo Z61m laptop running XP Home Edition with OpenSuse 11.3. The Hardrive is 200Gb before formatting, and 186.31GB when formatted.I have already partitioned the drive so that my XP is 100GB. There is a 4.8GB recovery partition preinstalled, which I want to keep. I plan to use the last 81.4GB for OpenSuse. Can someone tell me how to set up the rest of the partitions using a Gparted livecd? OpenSuse ising to shrink my XP partition even further to make all the partitions, even though there is already
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Jun 17, 2010I have winxp and ubuntu 10.04 dualboot. They were working ok. Today I removed old *21 kernel image and headers so grub updated the confs. That's all I did that could cause the win no longer boot. It starts booting, the screen goes black and the PC reboots. I tried safe mode, it started to load some dlls as it usually shows in safe mode but then still reboot.
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$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Ubuntu :: Messed Up Partition (dualboot) / Laptop Wouldn't Start Up - Fix That?
Jul 20, 2010I'm a new Ubuntu user and I'm already a fan, but I have a small problem. I wanted to dualboot my laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows Vista. I already had Vista (and hated it), so I installed Ubuntu. It all went well, until I messed up something with the partitions (in Vista of course..). Then my laptop wouldn't start up and I got an error message ( I don't remember what it was.). So I installed Ubuntu again on another partition and it is all working now (both Ubuntu and Vista). But now I have a partition, of 15 GB I think, that I can't use for anything. I would really want that back. So my question is: Does somebody have an idea how I can fix that?
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Oct 11, 2010I'm thinking of making ubuntu my main os and deleting my win 7 dualboot and installing it on virtualbox. Does win 7 run smoothly on virtualbox? I have a C2D 1,8Ghz, 2GB of ram laptop.
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Nov 3, 2010I have a Samsung N130 with XP and Ubuntu 10.04. One day I entered the Vista Loader in the GRUB 1.98 and it took me into the Samsung Recovery Partition! Now my BIOS reboots in a loop and no GRUB is shown anywhere! F9 does work (Long Beep is heard) and F2 (Recovery). I tried the UBUNTU install CD and I get a STd error and my drive slows down.
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Dec 17, 2010i have ubuntu 10.10 installed using wubi inside win7.when i power on the pc, i get a black screen with three os options :windows 7, ubuntu, ubuntu. there are 2 ubuntu options probably due to uninstalling of wubi and reinstalling of it.
both ubuntu entries lead to the same os, but i wish to get rid of one of them (for aesthetic reasons), i also wish to change the time out of this screen. btw, how is this screen called ? (as i think this is not the grub menu screen. am i right ?)
Ubuntu :: File Permission For User Accounts Win7 Dualboot?
Jul 12, 2011This computer is set up as dual boot Ubuntu / Windows 7.
I have accounts for my sons set up in Windows 7, and also in Ubuntu (11.04).
How can I give them permission to access their (and only their own) user area in windows ("/User/jasper/Documents/..." etc)?
Debian Hardware :: 32/64-bit Selection And Dualboot With Windows7
May 7, 2010What's the state of Debian these days? I have HP Compaq dc7900 with 64-bit Windows7.
Is Grub2 the default boot loader for Debian, or do I needt to use Windows7 boot loader and the older Grub? Given some free space (at the moment Linux Mint), does Debian install itself besides Windows7 as dualboot?
How about the selection of install CD? I didn't see option x86_64. Is it even advisable to use 64-bit Intel architecture yet? How are the drivers? Other SW? Is it better to use 32-bit x86 Debian for now? One reason for changing to Debian is Maemo development. Does anybody know if works with 64-bit Intel architecture?
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General :: Dualboot - Windows Xp And Fedora Core 6 ?
May 23, 2010Im trying to dual boot windows xp on my computer already running fedora core 6. I have some experience with dual booting- i had a windows xp laptop, and now it runs both windows and ubuntu. Ive done some reasearch, but still not clear on how exactly I should go about dual booting xp on fedora.
I forgot to mention above I do not have internet access on that computer. I do, however, have a laptop (windows xp) that i can download things on and burn on a disc if needed. it has internet. If you know of any solution to run programms such as visual studio and dreamweaver on linux which dosnt require dual booting(i tried wine but didnt work for me)
CentOS 5 :: After Upgraded To Windows 7 - The Dualboot Is Apparently Gone
Aug 31, 2011I've recently upgraded my Lenovo Sl500 laptop from windows vista to windows 7, both 32bit.
Prior to this i had dual boot between CentOs 5.6 and windows vista.
After i have upgraded to windows 7, the dualboot is apparently gone, I am no longer able to boot in linux.
My question is now, how can i fix this, or create a new dual boot?
Im currently left with two partitions, one with Windows 7 installed, and one with CentOs 5.6 installed, but as said, I am unable to acces my linux.
OpenSUSE Install :: Ubuntu In Dualboot Without Losing Any Data On Hard Disk?
Jul 2, 2010How to install openSUSE with Ubuntu in dualboot? I have Ubuntu 10.04 and i want to install openSUSE 11.2 without losing any data on hard disk.
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