GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) is a multiboot bootloader from the GNU project. This tag is for questions relating to the legacy version of GRUB. Use the GRUB2 tag for questions dealing with GRUB2, a rewritten version.
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Arch Linux MBR installation
Pardon me for my ignorance, but as a new Linux user, I honestly know little to nothing about these things.
I'm trying to set up an MBR install for Arch alongside Windows 8, though it doesn't make much ...
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How to boot Linux from image on disk or “Poor Man's Install”?
Is it possible to boot Linux with user space applications from file/image on disk?
I can copy content of any live image (for example from http://www.debian.org/CD/live/) to separate partition with ...
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Linux AutoNeoGrub0.mbr is corrupt of missing? [duplicate]
I've been trying to get my windows boot manager working so I can boot both Windows 7 and Linux. Currently, I can boot both, but only run when I click on "Windows 7" in the boot manager (Linux will run ...
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Should I install Grub2 to /sda or /sdb?
I have Windows 7 (default OS) on my internal hard drive which is /sda.
I have Linux Mint 14 on my external hard drive, which is /sdb
I'm going to install grub2 using a command, but I'm not sure ...
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Can't connect to internet on Linux after installing Windows 8 [closed]
I just installed Windows 8 on my new SSD but since then I can't connect to internet from OpenSUSE 12.3. I've had issues with my grub after installing windows 8 so I had to reinstall the grub. I am now ...
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GRUB that dynamically detects available OSes?
Is there any version of GRUB that dynamically detects what OSes it can boot on the current disk(s), so that I don't have to run update-grub every single time some OS changes on my machine?
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Crunchbang Linux on Mac Mini 6,1
I have a Mac Mini (6,1) and I want to dual boot OSX with crunchbang (chose this distro because Wi-fi works out of the box).
First, I installed rEFIt and put crunchbang on a flashdrive.
Next, I ...
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Unknown Filesystem Error with my live USB Ubuntu after suspension
There are a lot of posts concerning the nasty "unknown filesystem" error and the grub rescue prompt, but mine is rather peculiar.
My Ubuntu 13.04 is installed entirely on my flash drive, and by ...
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How would I reinstall the grub-efi bootloader on Fedora Linux?
I recently installed Fedora 18 using EFI boot. Like the other current linux distributions, it sets up GRUB2 for me.
I have experience with re-installing the BIOS version of GRUB when things go ...
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Unable to boot into Windows 8
I was currently running Win8 and F17 as a dual boot on my home desktop with an i5 chip and Asus UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, while I was in Win8 I accidentally removed the partition that held my F17 OS.
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Want to rescue GRUB
I have ubuntu 12.04 and windows 8 installed on my system. The main boot manager is grub, also the ubuntu and windows are installed in separate partitions. I want to install windows 7 back in place of ...
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Triple boot with Windows 8
while ago I bought a acer aspire e1 laptop with windows 8 on one partition, yesterday I installed ubuntu 12.10 and fedora 18 but when booting up I don't see ubuntu and fedora OS to select, it takes me ...
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Can I 'move' Windows 7 from an SSD to an HDD?
SEE BELOW FOR SHORT
Hello,
Due to boot problems after fiddling with a Fedora 18 install (see details below), I want to install Windows on another harddisk. My plan is to use a Windows Backup (System ...
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Why my Grub 2 version is 1.99?
Pretty much like the title says.
I'm using Kubuntu 12.04, and my installed grub packages are grub-pc and its various dependencies.
The package description says GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 ...
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GRUB reading my external hard drives? How to disable it?
At times when I boot my computer, my external hard drives will indicate disk activity before Grub loads. At this stage when the external drives blink, there is a blinking underscore displayed on the ...
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GRUB menu customization (change menu appearance)
In my GRUB (GRUB 0.97) menu the selector became invisible (changed of inversion color). I would like get my selector bar back and by the way customize a bit grub menu to be more fancy with colors. ...
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Windows 8 0x50 error when chainloading using BURG
I have a multiboot system, each system on a separate hard drive. I've been using GRUB2 and everything was fine. I've recently decided to switch to BURG and that keeps my Windows 8 in a reboot loop. ...
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Upgrading from Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal)
I just recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop with no problems whatsoever. I'm just now learning that 9.04 is unsupported and it's making installing software difficult. I came to the conclusion ...
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How to dual boot RHEL 6 and Windows 8?
The Situation:
I have an ASUS Notebook with Windows 8 preinstalled, i created a new partition and installed RHEL 6 to that partition, but the computer keeps booting into Windows 8 without going into ...
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Every windows 8 boot breaks grub
I have Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04 dual booting with UEFI and grub. (re-used the windows UEFI partition)
After I used boot-repair, everything seemed fine.
After I boot into Windows, however, I can't ...
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Dual Boot TrueCrypt Encrypted Windows and Linux with Grub workaround?
The Major issue of not being able to dual-boot on TrueCrypt disc encryption systems won't get out of my mind.
My idea is, wouldn't it be possible to create an encrypted HDD with an Windows system on ...
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Black Screen, Blinking Cursor (Ubuntu install) Super Grub 2 works
FIRST: I know this same problem has been discussed, but I have tried things and haven't found anything regarding Super Grub 2 and such.
Well the issue is pretty much defined in the title, but to be ...
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Can't access BIOS or boot my Windows [duplicate]
I had Ubuntu 12.04 + Windows 7 installed, I didn't like Ubuntu hence I deleted the partition.
But I forgot to fix the MBR.
Also I cannot access the mutiboot option using F12 at startup.
So when I ...
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Reflashing Genesi Efika mx cloud computer
I was given a genesi efika MX cloud computer which already has ubuntu on it.
But I haven't the admin password or the password for any user.
I cant reset the admin pass because it doesn't seem to have ...
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How to customize logout options under Linux [migrated]
I'm running a machine with Kubuntu and Windows XP in dual-boot.
I recently learned about the very useful grub-reboot command, and id like to know if it is possible to customize the logout options ...
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Is it possible to use grub2 with a linux root partition under Soft-RAID5?
I need some more space in my computer, therefore I want some basic changes be done. One of those is setting a RAID up for all files to be a bit more robust (I have just had a hd crash, so I am a bit ...
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iMac replace GRUB2 with rEFIt
I have a dual-boot of Mac OS X Lion and Ubuntu 12.10. When I installed Ubuntu, it came with GRUB2 as a boot manager, but I can't really use it since I have a bluetooth keyboard that is not supported ...
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legacy grub: updated menu.lst is not used
This is a CentOS 6.4 with all updates inside Virtualbox OSE (quite old version).
All information below refers to the VM, I don't think there is any issue on the host.
/boot is a separate ext2 fs on ...
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grub-probe hanging on Ubuntu 11.10 on EC2
After doing this...:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
... I found the terminal hanging. ps reports this:
17687 pts/2 D+ 0:00 /usr/sbin/grub-probe --target=device /
This is on an ...
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GRUB reported “error: file not found.” when booting CentOS 5
I installed CentOS 5.3 by using a 4GB USB disk on an old PC that I used run a Debian on it.
After a series of housework on the fresh system, I reboot the system using:
sudo shutdown -r now
After ...
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Having problems with booting GRUB for EFI on USB stick
Whatever I do, it constantly drops me into the 'bash prompt'. Never displays a menu, nothing. I'm running GRUB on a USB stick formatted as msdos (so, FAT) and when I boot into it, GRUB simply won't ...
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Fedora on USB drive - cannot mount root partition
I am trying to install Fedora 18 on my USB pendrive (4GB). I know it is possible to do using 'liveusb-creator' application, but it is what I would like to avoid. What I would like to do, is to install ...
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How to pass parameters to a Linux kernel with grub?
I have posted the question "Kubuntu 12.10 laptop battery dropping fast" and there i have received the answer as
accept
As advised on another Stack Exchange forum, the procedure to accomplish an ...
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GNU/GRUB - Misaligned display/screen [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 7 - and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 recently - Ubuntu installed the GRUB boot menu. When I first got Ubuntu, I changed the default OS to Windows 7. But now I ...
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GNU GRUB - Misaligned display/screen
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 with Windows 7 - and upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 recently - Ubuntu installed the GRUB (version 2.00-7ubuntu11) boot menu. When I first got Ubuntu, I changed the default OS ...
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Debian boot not recognizing Windows
I have a Dell Optiplex that has a small first partition that has Dell tools on it. My Windows XP is on the second partition. I installed Debian squeeze 6.07, and now I am not able to see Windows on ...
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How to make grub2 boot before os loads
I feel kinda silly asking this but I would like to know if it is possible to have grub2 boot before an OS loads. I'm currently running an ACER V3-571-6643 with windows 8 on it and I installed Ubuntu ...
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Installing grub?
I am trying to install cinnarch. I installed it correctly but I have some troubles with grub.
At the moment I am unable to boot because grub has some errors. I can only access the files via liveCD. I ...
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how to dual boot Redhat and ubuntu on using different partitions
I want to dual boot my laptop using RedHat and Ubuntu in different partitions.
My hardisk contains the following partitions:
/boot ==> redhat boot partition 300MB
/SWAP ===> 8GB
/ ===> ...
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I took an image from entire hard disk of a real PC running linux FC4 and try to run it under virtual box but grub freezes all the time
I am trying to run an image which I took from an actual PC (cpu = intel/motherboard=unknown to me/ os = FC 4/ RAID disk controller) and I want to run that image under virtual machine ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 Will boot with 500GB drive, but not 1TB?
OK, I am stumped...
I recently set up an Ubuntu Server on an old SS4200-E; since it is completely headless (no way all all to connect a display, no console port, nothing), I installed Ubuntu Server ...
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Dual booting Linux Mint fails
I have Winodws 7 on my computer and I am trying to install Linux Mint 14 on the same computer. The hard drive has four primary partitions and thus it is impossible to boot Mint from it since I cannot ...
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Attempted downgrade from GRUB2 to GRUB; can't boot into ubuntu anymore
So I just did a clean install of windows 7 ultimate and installed ubuntu 12.10 beside it. I kept the windows bootloader in the mbr at the advice if my tutorial (i used easyBCD to enable an option for ...
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grub can't read / on (hd0,0) but can on (hd1,0)
I can mount /dev/sda1, so I know it's not corrupt. grub can see (hd0,0) as a partition so that's not a problem. grub can read (hd1,0) just fine, so grub's not corrupt. In the grub shell, when I try ...
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How do I choose which GRUB the MBR looks at with multiple linux distributions?
I have two instances of Ubuntu running on my computer (The second one is for an operating systems class).
The problem is that when I installed the second Ubuntu, the MBR now looks at the second GRUB, ...
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Can I tell GRUB to boot into a Windows OS that exists as a virtual disk on a Linux system?
I know that GRUB (and GRUB2) can chainload a Windows OS if you specify the hdd that it is contained on.
Is it possible to tell GRUB (or GRUB2) to boot into a dd image-file of a Windows OS that is ...
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Mint Uefi installation
I got few small issues with a Mint installation. I've bought a new laptop (Asus n56vj) with a preinstalled Windows 8 system. And there is the first problem, laptop has uefi mode on. So when I try to ...
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Windows option is missing in Dual boot Grub loader
I installed Windows 7 and then Ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop. After installing, when I restart, GRUB didn't load. Instead, it straight away went to Windows booting as if there's Only windows available on ...
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How do I replace GRUB with the Windows 8 bootloader without losing access to Linux?
I dual-boot Windows 8 and Crunchbang Linux. I installed Windows first, then Linux. GRUB was installed directly in the MBR.
However, now I suspect that GRUB is the reason why I can't use bcdedit on ...
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How to setup grub.conf for a newly compiled kernel
I installed MPLS on linux 2.6.15 using the instructions here:
http://www.sj.ifsc.edu.br/~msobral/RCO2/docs/mpls-linux/1-3-installation.html
Everything worked but I don't know how to set up grub.conf ...
