Ubuntu :: Use Chameleon Bootloader Instead Of GRUB2?

Jun 3, 2010

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?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Grub2 Configuration - Partition No Longer Shows Up In Chameleon?

Sep 24, 2010

boot up in to chameleon, lists only Mac OS X as a boot option. Reboot, load Ubuntu 10.4 install cd, get to a terminal, mount /dev/sda3 /mnt grub-install --force --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda3

reboot, let chameleon come up, it sees both Mac OS X & Ubuntu partitions and I can boot to either or happily, now here is the problem... If I select linux and boot in to linux from chameleon, i am brought to the grub menu, where i can select the first choice which is normal ubuntu 10.4 and every thing is great... until I reboot and my linux partition no longer shows up in chameleon, as if tthe act of booting in to grub is changing something / deleting itself from the partition? and I have to do the whole thing over again. SO, not having to even go in to OS X, I'm not sure thats really the concerns more as I'm doing something wrong with grub.

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Ubuntu :: Grub2 In 10.4 Installation Stopped Now No Bootloader

Apr 30, 2010

I tried to install 10.4 but it comes to the stage which installing grub2 and stop now I don't have a boot loader?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Windows Does Not Show Up On Grub2 Bootloader

Jul 19, 2010

I'm relatively new to Ubuntu, I've installed it in Virtual Box and through Wubi on other computers but this was the first time that I've done a live install on my production computer. I had problems from the get go, I was using a Live CD of 10.04 (64 bit AMD) to install it and when it got to the part about choosing a partition no drives would show up at all. Eventually after some searching around, I discovered that Using an Alternate install CD would work. I did that, installing Ubuntu into one of the free partitions I had set up prior to this. Eventually my system turned on but the monitor went to sleep so I had to hit E on the grubmenu and change something to nomodeset (or something like that) so that I could see the screen. I installed Compiz and it was all good from there.

Except for One issue, I cannot boot Into windows at all, it doesn't show up on the bootloader even though the partition shows up in Gparted. I've tried updating Grub2 with no results, here are the results of Sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 400.1 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1549f232 .....

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Ubuntu :: Installing Without GRUB2 / Possible To Use The Original GRUB Bootloader?

Aug 31, 2010

I've had nothing but trouble with GRUB2. Is it possible to use the original GRUB bootloader?

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Feb 14, 2010

I'm trying to change the font color of the text of the bootloader in Grub2. I'm running 9.10. I successfully edited the Grub cfg file change the colors of the Grub menu, but I'd like to change the text color as I watch the modules load and can't seem to do it. I'd also like to password protect the bootloader if possible. I installed startupmanager but the new version won't allow these changes. I like to see my modules as they load and wanted to change the color from white to blue.

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Software :: Adding Files Extracted From An ISO To GRUB2 Bootloader?

Feb 16, 2010

I have extracted the files from a bootable CD to /dev/sdc2/bootable/winpwrec with the hope of booting from the hard drive. I have read the grub.cfg file and a couple of guides here and I'm still not sure what I'm doing. Is there any chance someone can tell me what I need to add to the grub.cfg file to add this to the boot menu? I am pretty well-versed in computers but I'm new to Linux and I'm still trying to get acquainted with the OS, terminology, and the boot loader. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, if that matters.

files in the folder:
BOOT.CAT;1 ISOLINUX.BIN;1 SCSI.CGZ;1
BOOT.MSG;1 ISOLINUX.CFG;1 SYSLINUX.CFG;1 VMLINUZ.;1
INITRD.CGZ;1 README.TXT;1 SYSLINUX.EXE;1
isolinux.cfg
Code:
#serial 0 19200

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Ubuntu Installation :: GRUB2 Bootloader Crashes With Win7 And 10.04 Dual Boot?

May 7, 2010

I have a Dell Studio 14 laptop with Windows 7 64bit preinstalled. The processor is core i5 and the machine has 4GB RAM. I freed 25GB of memory from my Hard disk and tried to install Ubuntu 10.04 (AMD). Everything went fine. I restarted and Logged into Ubuntu. It worked like a charm. Then I restarted to Windows7. This also worked well as expected.

But, when I rebooted again, I got a black screen saying that �No modules found. Press any key to restart�
When I press a key, it says �No operating system found�, probably after checking through a network (it printed lines starting with PXE).

I tried exactly in the same way with Ubuntu 8.04 in my machine, and this worked without any problem. The Bootloader was not corrupted after restarting from Windows. I noticed the problem with Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04. I feel like a problem regarding the bootloader version. AFAIK, 9.10 and 10.04 is using GRUB2 when 8.04 use the old version of GRUB. Will I have to switch to the legacy GRUB? (I would love to keep using GRUB2). If yes, I would like to know How.

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Fedora Installation :: Grub2 Bootloader - Manually Adding Entry?

May 29, 2010

I have a working Ubuntu install with the Grub2 bootloader. I need to manually add an entry to boot Fedora 13 off of sda. Sda1 is the boot partition, sda2 is LVM. None of the examples I've tried work. I do also have F13 grub installed on sda, but chainloading to it didn't do anything other than a blinking cursor.

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Ubuntu :: GRUB2 Overwritten - Boot Into Windows Via TC Bootloader But "no Bootable Partition Found"?

Sep 11, 2010

I'm using Truecrypt to encrypt my Windows 7 OS. I also have unencrypted Ubuntu 10.04 installed on /dev/sda6 on the same hard drive. Since Truecrypt bootloader must be installed in MBR, I have GRUB2 installed on /dev/sda6, so I can use TC bootloader to load GRUB2. When I first install GRUB2 on /dev/sda6, I can use TC bootloader to load Ubuntu. But, if I boot into Windows via TC bootloader, and then later try to boot into Ubuntu, I get the message "no bootable partition found". I have to reinstall GRUB2 onto /dev/sda6, every time after I use windows in order to be able to boot into Ubuntu. It seems that starting Windows somehow overwrites GRUB2. Is there a fix for this?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Grub2 Can't Load Window 7 After Recovered Grub2 Using Live Cd To Boot Windows 7

Mar 7, 2010

i initilally installed ubuntu 9.10 then installed windows 7 ,then i recovered grub2 using livecd as told in the post [URL] i did "sudo update-grub" and got windows 7 menu entry but when i select that entry windows 7 does not load but the grub2 is reloaded again.
i cant boot to windows 7.

Windows 7 have 100 mb partition "System Reserved" the grub2 points to that partition but still windows 7 not loaded.

sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3c3a81f5

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Ubuntu Installation :: Grub2 Dosn't Save Windows As Last Selected + Boot Into Cdrom From Grub2?

May 17, 2010

I went through so many post but I haven't found the proper answer yet hope you have an Idea1. Grub2 saves only Linux OS as last selected no Windows OS2.It is possible to boot into a cdrom (drive)?

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Jul 11, 2011

I installed Fedora 15, which was my first real departure from Debian based Linux OSs. I absolutely love the new Gnome 3, and was able to configure F15 to work as I wanted it to. On rebooting I realized that there was no boot loader screen, that F15 just booted and didn't give me a choice as to which OS I wanted to use. Eventually I was able to configure grub to let me see the boot loader and added my old boot loader as a choice. This worked well, maybe not a perfect solution, but it worked. This weekend I installed LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) to another HDD. LMDE uses grub2 and after the install F15 was not recognized.

Two questions: Is there a way for grub2 to see F15? or Can F15 be installed using grub2? I really don't mind re-installing from scratch.

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Nov 7, 2010

I 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.

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Fedora :: Load Grub2 From Grub4dos / Load Directly Grub2 Core Without Passing By Bootstriping Code?

Jan 24, 2011

I want to load grub2 from grub4dos.I want to load directly the grub2 core. I know how to load first 512 bytes from some patition by chainloader and load grub2, but what I need is to load directly grub2 core without passing by bootstriping code (first 512 bytes).So, my first boot manager is grub4dos, then I can load grub2 and later I load Ubuntu. But I think I have to edit --set-root
What I dont know is how.

In hdd 0,7 (sda8) I have Ubuntu 10.10 and /boot/grub/core.img is in sda8 (hd0.7)

I tried this way:

Code:
title grub2
find --set-root /boot/grub/core.img
kernel /boot/grub/core.img

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Ubuntu :: Windows Is Gone From Bootloader?

Jan 9, 2010

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?

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Ubuntu :: Remove The XP Bootloader?

Jan 31, 2010

I 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?

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Ubuntu :: Bootloader Won't Install?

Oct 12, 2010

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.

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Ubuntu :: How To Edit Bootloader

Feb 24, 2011

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?

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Ubuntu :: Bootloader After Installing 9.10?

Mar 6, 2011

I'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

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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.

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Ubuntu :: How To Edit Bootloader In 10.10

Mar 9, 2011

How does bootloader edit in ubuntu 10.10? For example, I would like to select default boot windows instead of ubuntu.

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Ubuntu :: Kubuntu And Win 7 Run Without A Bootloader?

Apr 29, 2011

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

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Fedora :: BootLoader F15 And Ubuntu 11.04 - Can't See Each Other During Their Installs ?

May 27, 2011

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?

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Ubuntu Installation :: Possible To Use Windows Bootloader?

Feb 11, 2010

I was wondering if it's possible to use the windows bootlaoder instead of GRUB to choose between Windows and Linux? If so how?

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Feb 15, 2010

I 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.

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Mar 3, 2010

I 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.

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Apr 25, 2010

I 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?)

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May 11, 2010

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.

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Jun 10, 2010

when 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

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Jun 24, 2010

I 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.

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