This is the second version of gnu grub wherein specific improvements were made.
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Detecting which GRUB2 menu entry the system was booted with
I am working on a remote server with no KVM, and am modifying stuff in the boot loader menu. I enabled the fallback and "default boot once" options in case for when I screw something up.
Is there a ...
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Macbook Grub2 EFI Installation
How exactly does grub2 works on Macbooks? Does it install Grub2 on the EFI partition and I can boot using the grub loader just as I do on a BIOS based PC? What is actually the consequences of running ...
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GRUB freeze - Debian/Ubuntu home server
I am trying to setup my own home server - headless. It is a Fit-PC2 machine (full tech specs here: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc/fit-pc2-specifications/ ) with 160GB HDD so it has limited BIOS ...
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How do I pick the right kernel arguments to boot from the FILES on a linux LiveCD USB?
I think I've been through just about every post on this site about this and can't find anyone who will shed light on all those mysterious arguments that get passed to the linux kernel by grub! What I ...
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Recover partitions with both Windows 7 and Linux installed using TestDisk
I need to recover my partitions using TestDisk. I used deep search and the result is as follows:
Disk /dev/sdc - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
Partition Start End ...
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Remove Grub 2 Blockfiles from Partition eg. /dev/sda1
In the process of setting up an encrypted windows partition along with a dual booting Ubuntu, I have had to install the grub boot loader onto a partition (/dev/sda1) instead of the mbr.
In this setup ...
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ubuntu update-grub error: unknown LVM metadata header
when i update grub i get error of "unknown LVM metadata header.". I search in google and i found this is bug in previous versions of grub but i am using last version.
How to solve this error:
error: ...
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Finishing up and Arch Linux install and Grub is failing to install
Not sure what to do at this point. I finished all of the Arch Linux installer and get to the bootloader step and it fails. This is for a dual booted Windows 7/Arch laptop if that helps at all. Not ...
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XP restarts the machine on boot over grub2 menu
There were two HDD attached on computer board.
One hdd has Linux installation and the other one has Windows XP (on first partition) and Windows 7 (on second partition)
First I installed xp and then ...
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How do I set up Grub properly to quad-boot Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD?
Grub has gone completely insane on me. My quad-boot system was working great up until I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04. Since Ubuntu overwrote the Grub stuff I had to repair it with my Mac OS X and FreeBSD ...
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grub2 multiboot philosophy
Since using grub 2 I am puzzled by the way the boot menu is created.
I usually have some extra installations on different disks or partitions. When doing a os-prober and grub-update my menu will ...
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windows 8 + gentoo uefi grub 2 dual boot
I've bought a new computer with asus sabertooth 990fx motherboard (well known asus ami bios which can use uefi properly) and installed windows 8 using uefi and gpt to play wine-not-compatible games. ...
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How do I recover the MBR on a Thinkpad t420?
After a messy Linux upgrade of my dual boot Lenovo T420 I ended up with GRUB replacing my MBR. Everything works fine: I can boot both Linux and Windows; the only thing different from before is that ...
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How can you boot mac os x lion from grub 2?
I have win7, ubuntu, mac os x installed on one hard drive on my pc.
I am booting from grub 2 but can only boot win7 & ubuntu.
The drive is mbr partitioned (I had to apply a patch to lion to get ...
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Make GRUB 2 boot Windows 8 safe mode
I have a dual boot configuration: Windows 8 Consumer and Ubuntu 11.10.
I tried to install the Asus drivers for my motherboard (P8Z68-V LE EFI) in windows 8, and i now get bluescreens when starting ...
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Hide GRUB2 menu UNLESS you hold down Shift key: how to make this happen?
I have a Ubuntu - Windows 7 dual-boot set-up, and I would like to have it that my laptop would boot up Windows 7 unless I press down the Shift key right after boot and bring up the Grub2 menu from ...
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GRUB2 rescue boot into windows
I had got 2 partitions on my harddrive:
1. win7;
2. Ubuntu 11.10;
As it can be predicted the GRUB loader was in the second partition and this partition was formated from ext4 to ntfs.
Now I get this ...
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Grub help, deleting partition without deleting grub
I have a triple boot windows 7, ubuntu 10.10, ubuntu 11.10 and i want to delete the partitiion containing 11.10 but that's where my grub is located I believe. Because it updated to grub 1.99 when I ...
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Howto install and configuring grub2 on a USB thumb drive
I'm wanting to play around with grub2 with linux on a thumb drive.
My host OS is Kubuntu.
grub-install allows you to write the grub bootloader to the MBR of a disk which is great.
However, ...
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How do I prevent GRUB2 from automatically booting into an OS?
I am dual-booting Fedora 16 and Windows 7, and using grub to handle booting. The default is set to Fedora, and I have a real problem with getting distracted during boot and having it boot into Fedora ...
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Linux GRUB2: How to resume from hibernation?
Moving to GRUB2 my Arch Linux no longer resumes from hibernation, because the actual resuming is no longer set up. In GRUB legacy I'd write:
/boot/grub/menu.lst:
kernel /vmlinuz26 ...
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Move Grub to a different drive
I recently added a new ssd to my machine which I intended to have as my main drive. I installed crunchbang and everything went fine, except I unthinkingly accepted updating/overwriting the MBR on my ...
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How to boot linux installed on external drive on macbook having dual OS installed internally
I have a macbook which have dual OS of OS X lion and Windows 7 installed on the internal hard drive.
I installed rEFIt to switch between OS, Now I have an external hard drive with Ubuntu 10.04 and ...
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Updating grub2 in a Debian VM
I am running a series of debian server VMs under Xen. I am using pygrub, so the kernels and initrds are within the VM itself.
I would like to continue using the automatic grub.cfg generation ...
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Installed Windows 7, then Ubuntu 11.10, and now I can't boot to Windows using grub2
I know a lot of people are having problems similar to this one, but I don't think this is a duplicate. My situation is a bit different and none of the solutions that are working for other people have ...
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Boot GRUB2 to GRUB or GRUB2 on another disk
I've got a couple of distributions installed, Gentoo with GRUB2, and openSUSE with some other version of GRUB.
OpenSUSE manages it's kernel entries, and I don't want to have to update my main Gentoo ...
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Linux installation won't boot due to GRUB “no such device” error
I think I've exhausted all I know to do, so I'm sending up the flares. I'll try to cover it all (albeit, in pieces), so please be patient.
I decided to install Linux Mint 11 where I previously had ...
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Backing up MBR on laptop disks with recovery partiitions?
Most of the Linux distributions I use allow me to override where GRUB is installed, but I now need to install Ubuntu on some Dell Latitude laptops, and on the test install I did on my old Vaio ...
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Does Grub2 support Memtest86+ iso files?
Does Grub2 support Memtest86+ iso files? If it's supported: How could I write a grub entry in grub.cfg in order to boot the Memtest86+ iso file?
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Burg/Grub2 boot WinPE
How can I boot WinPE from burg/grub2 with a drive formatted by fbinst?
The WinPE files are located on the unhidden part of the drive. What should the menu entry look like?
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GRUB2 boot failure: “Error: Out of disk”
Create two or more partitions in one USB disk.
Install any Linux system in second or later partition.
Install GRUB2 in the disk. Boot directory is the /boot on the partition where Linux system is ...
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Custom file in Grub 2
I have a image file which needs to boot along with my Ubuntu. When I open /etc/grub.d/10_linux for example, I see a lot of code written there.
What is the typical format for writing a custom file ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit) won't boot. Forgot to install GRUB 2. Manual GRUB install fails
I cannot get Ubuntu to boot. I downloaded the Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit mini.iso and installed it in Virtualbox (v.4.1.2 running on OS X 10.5.8). When I installed Ubuntu, I selected "Command-line expert ...
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How can I use my Ubuntu on power-on via console ttyS0 from another PC using RS232 cable?
I have my PC with Ubuntu 11.04 installed, from this PC console port (RS232) another PC my laptop is connected. Now from my another PC i want to connect it and login and use it completely over RS232. ...
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How to safely use grub rescue> in Fedora 16? System does not boot anymore
When i boot my PC, i get this in my Fedora 16 distro. I have tried as following but none allowing me to boot anymore. Any help please? I am blocked completely.
Grub loading.
Welcome to GRUB!
error: ...
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How do I set up grub2 with Xen?
I am booting a new Xen kernel and it all goes fine up until some point during the boot process when the machine reboots without warning. Unfortunately, I don't see errors flash up just before that ...
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Recovering Windows Vista Partition after Ubuntu Natty N. install
I recently installed Ubuntu on my DELL's D Drive (Secondary Partition) and I lost the windows vista boot which was on my C Drive. Now when I boot my system directly loads Ubuntu, which seemed to me ...
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Why doesn't GRUB see my SSD partition?
I have a HP nc4400 laptop with an SSD drive in it.
Sometimes when I reboot I get a There is no such partition. grub rescue > prompt.
If I power cycle the laptop all is good and GRUB is able to ...
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What does Ubuntu Linux do with GRUB during a new installation?
I've been messing around with a cheap PC lately and now I have some questions about GRUB; what exactly does Ubuntu do with GRUB during a new install? Several times I've modified my partitions (moved ...
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Create custom terminal boot mode under ubuntu
I wonder if it would be possible to create a custom boot menu entry in grub under Ubuntu (11.04), that boots the system into terminal instead of the login screen.
The effect should be something like ...
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Fedora 15 - Kernel Panic not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root on unknown-block (0,0)
Fast to the point..
I have installed on my dystem a copy of Fedora 15 and Ubuntu 11.04. I first installed ubuntu on /dev/sda5 and grub2 was instaled at the begining of /dev/sda. Next i installed ...
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Truecrypt, windows 7 and grub 2 - pre-boot authentication (whole partition encryption) with separate windows boot partition
Currently I have following set up:
sda1 - SYSTEM_DRV (from what I understand it is Windows bootloader for multiple systems + some tools)
sda2 - Windows7OS (the system itself)
sda3 - Windows recovery ...
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What would be a healthy process for repartitioning my hard drive to add another Linux installation?
So, my computer currently has
1) Dell's RECOVERY partition;
2) A Windows installation;
3) A logical partition with
3a) My Ubuntu partition, and
3b) 8 GB of swap.
I would like to take some space away ...
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Grub installation problems
I was trying to reinstall Grub over my new Windows installation referring to this guide.
Unfortunately on the step where they said to enter this command:
sudo grub-install ...
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Problem with Grub on Ubuntu 11.04
I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 along with Windows XP. Grub is installed properly. When the grub menu loads I get a moving message window saying my monitor is not in the optimum resolution of 1280x1024 ...
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Fixing bad Windows partition and startup with Linux
Here is what happened:
Don't have enough space on my Windows partition
Delete the stock "recovery" partition to make space
Enlarge the Win partition
Software messes up the Windows boot
Go under ...
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Change the order of all boot entries in GRUB2, not just the first
It's quite easy to change the default boot entry through etc/default/grub. However, this only allows for the first entry to be changed. I want to be able to move all the entries in any order I like. ...
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Problems with Grub 2 booting priority
Right now I have this setup:
/dev/sda1 is NTFS where I store my cross-platform accessible pictures/videos/etc.
/dev/sda2 is my Windows 7 boot partition
/dev/sdb1 is ext4 partition with Ubuntu 11.04 ...
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Grub Autostart with timeout
On Ubuntu 10.4 LTS I want Grub to start the default OS after 5 Seconds. I'd like to see the output of the startup scripts.
Currently grub wait forever until I hit return and the output of the startup ...
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problems installing existing ubuntu 11.04 (guest) in VirtualBox on windows 7 (host)
I have successfully installed existing ubuntu 10.10 on win7 host ...
