Installation or use of multiple operating systems on a single computer.
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Delete an entry from boot options
I have installed Ubuntu using Wubi.
It works fine, but for some reason I see 2 entries of Ubuntu (which run the exact same OS) on the boot-up of the computer.
it seems that on Windows 8, I need to ...
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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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What are the differences bewteen using ISOs vs extracting distributions in multiboot LiveUSBs?
I've created a multiboot pendrive with a couple of Linux distributions by using the YUMI tool from pendrivelinux, and by default it extracts the content of the chosen operating system's ISO on a ...
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Encrypting a multi-boot USB drive
Goal:
Full encryption of a multi-boot USB drive containing boot CDs and confidential information
Problem:
I have been experimenting with XBoot (https://sites.google.com/site/shamurxboot/download) ...
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Multiboot on usb with syslinux
I'm trying to make a multiboot usb with Ubuntu, Backtrack and Mantra-OS on it (all ubuntu as you can see). Those are the steps I've done:
sudo su
unmount /dev/sdb1 # unmount ...
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Dual boot Windows 7 / 8 is one Antivirus software enough?
I have a dual boot setup with Windows 7 and Windows 8. In Windows 7 I have Antivirus / Internet security Software from Symantec. Is it enough if I scan the Windows 8 partition lets say once a week or ...
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Trying to boot Linux from a USB drive on Mac
I installed Ubuntu on a USB drive. I'm trying to start it from a Mac. rEFIt sees it, but when it tries to start it, it starts Windows on the main instead. I tried to start it from the bootable disc ...
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Mount hibernated windows paritition
I am trying to mount my windows partition at boot. It works fine when windows in shutdown, but when windows is hibernated, it can't be mounted as rw and I am sent to the root shell at boot. I tried to ...
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Cannot switch between 2 operating systems [duplicate]
Guyz...
I've installed two OS i.e. Win 8 and a Debian distro. First I installed the debian one and then partitioned some free space for WIN 8 and then installed Win 8. The problem here arises that ...
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extending a triple boot system: quad boot and beyond?
I have a working triple boot system using Refit, that is modeled closely after the steps detailed in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation, except that I'm using ...
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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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What is the use of the [BOOT]/Bootable_NoEmulation.img file on several boot images?
I've seen a file called [BOOT]/Bootable_NoEmulation.img on several boot images, and always wondered what it's use is. Neither found a suitable magic number nor could Google help me so I ask here.
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Adding Windows 8 ISO to a multiboot USB drive
I've created a multiboot USB drive using this guide: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/
I've put Linux Mint, Ubuntu, and now I'd like to also add Windows ...
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Will debian booted from a flash drive delete my windows files on my flash drive? [closed]
I want to store ALL debian files on my flash drive
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Installing windows 7 hid ubuntu on my machine.Can I access ubuntu again?
I had ubuntu already installed on my laptop.I did not uninstall it.I installed windows 7 on my laptop.Now I can't access ubuntu.It's hidden.I thought I would get a choice of operating systems at the ...
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Partitioning on a multiboot laptop
I have a Fujitsu AH531 laptop with 320GB HDD.
Currently, I have 3 OS installed on it: Win7, Win8, Linux Mint14 and a bulk part for archiving my files.
Now I wanna allocate another part to commence ...
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deleting ubuntu from the hard-disk when I have a triple boot
Currently I have a triple boot with windows7,fedora 16,Ubuntu 11 . As I power my laptop I see the boot loader of ubuntu (Grub) that lists three OS's. I need to delete Ubuntu from my hard-disk ? How ...
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How to install reliable/flexible GRUB for multi-boot (Windows, Linux)?
This question must've been asked a billion times, but I haven't found a real GRUB-related solution.
I need to install GRUB on a machine that'll have both Windows and Linux (Fedora) installed. It must ...
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How To change Grub Boot Setting
I got Fedora 18 and Windows 7 installed on the same machine, and I want to change Default boot time from 3sec to 7sec also and the default start-up systems windows 7.
I have used this commande :
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1answer
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Multi boot option for WDS
I have a Windows Deployment Server (Server 2008 R2) that I use to roll out XP/Vista/7 installs using the standard retail CDs.
I am looking to expand its functionality to include DOS/Linux/Repair ...
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Can GRUB2 be installed to USB and used to select between 2 HDDs with Windows 7?
I have recently acquired a second SSD, and decided I would utilize a multi-boot setup to increase my productivity. One drive is for "work" (only contains Windows 7 and software needed for work) and on ...
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Chaining bootloaders for unusual setup
I'm trying to implement some unusual idea on my PC.
I've got a total of 6 partitions:
First one is for Windows 7 (my basic OS)
2nd one for Ubuntu
3rd and 5th are Windows storage partitions
4th is a ...
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Adding Windows 8 to a dual-boot Windows that's using GAG
I've got a system setup with (2) XP installs which dual-boots using GAG. I want to add Win8 to another partition and be able to multi-boot either installation of XP or the Win8. Before I do anything, ...
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Virtualizing existing Linux partition on the local machine using VMWare Workstation 9.0
I am trying out VM Workstation 9.0 on Windows and I am tried to run the existing linux partition by following steps blow:
Create a new VM > Advanced > Choose to install the OS later > select Debian 6 ...
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Windows 8 bootloader doesn't pick up Windows 7 installation
After installing Windows 8, its booloader picked up my Linux partition but it didn't pick up my Windows 7 partition on a separate disk.
I've looked in the Windows 8 bootloader options and advanced ...
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installing Windows XP AFTER Linux Ubuntu install
Im trying to install Windows XP after Ubuntu install. But I have a blue screen error during windows XP installation process, just before reaching the partition menu.
For any reason, it seems windows ...
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How can I make my computer ask me which OS I want to load while booting?
I have 2 hard disk, one with one partition with OS, and the other with 2 partitions, one with OS and the other one whithout.
I want to be able to decide which OS I want to load each time I boot the ...
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Windows 8 does not hibernate without boot menu installed
I run a quad-boot with Fedora, Ubuntu, ChromiumOS, and Windows 8. I have discovered that Windows 8 will no longer hibernate - it just brings me back to the lock screen. When I run it from ...
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Windows 7 boot option missing after installing Windows XP
I had a computer running on Windows 7 Pro. However, when I reinstalled Windows XP on the other partition and rebooted, only Windows XP loaded and booted and the Windows 7 boot option was missing.
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Triple Boot Windows
The toshiba laptop has Win 7 Home Edition. I resized the partition (shrink). I made two other partitions to install two Win XP SP3. Trying to have 1x Win7, 2x WinXP, when resized the partition, i made ...
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How does the BIOS know where the bootloader is located?
On a multi-boot system with potentially one bootloader installed per OS installed how does the bios know which bootloader to pass control to? How is it specified which bootloader is the active one?
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Installing Linux live session on USB drive: manually vs using a specific program?
I usually use programs such as Unetbootin or Tuxboot to install a Linux distro for booting from a USB drive, but I see that some distros offer specific .zip packages for USB booting and recommend ...
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Dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 across a reboot
My Setup:
I have two separate SSDs, and each contains an independently bootable OS - W8 and U12.10. From my extremely limited knowledge, this means each has a functioning EFI partition(?).
My ...
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Linux side by side with Windows
I have a laptop with two partitions- one with a Windows 8 Pro, and the other with a BackTrack5 Linux OS. I can easily switch between the two, provided that I restart the laptop.
Is it possible to ...
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How to get rid of GNU GRUB menu
I had both windows 7 with UBUNTU installed on my laptop but long time ago, I tried to uninstall UBUNTU (I am not sure if I did it right!). I find this GNU GRUB menu really annoying now that I only ...
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Windows 8 and multi-booting woes amongst other issues
I have an Asus UX32VD that was recently purchased. Amongst other headaches, like F9 to restore not restoring, GPT and UEFI I have a booting issue that I would like to try and resolve.
I lost my ...
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Installing Debian on existing encrypted lvm
I have a dual-boot machine, where I already set up Ubuntu in an encrypted lvm. I want to use the same lvm for Crunchbang (a debian derivative), since I designed that lvm with two root-Volumes, a ...
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Fix single entry from mbr [closed]
I use EasyBCD to manage my tripleboot of (1) Windows Server 2008 R2, (2) Windows 7 Professional and (3) Ubuntu Linux.
While trying to change the order of my boot menu I ended up losing the Windows ...
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How to use the Windows 8 boot screen with a keyboard?
The 'Choose an operation system' screen on Windows 8 allows you to use the cursor keys to choose between the different operating systems, but I couldn't find a way to select:
'Change defaults or ...
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Is it a good practice to create a separated partition for a grub2 loader?
I want install Debian 6. I want have a grub2 as a boot loader.
I read, that creating a separated primary /boot partition for the kernel (with read-only access) is a good practice. Is it also a good ...
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How can I add Linux to the new Windows 8 boot manager?
Which OSes can be put into the new Bootloader that Windows 8 provides? It seems to be quite pretty and consistent with the rest of the new Windows 8 design so it would be cool to put Linux (Ubuntu) ...
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separate Windows 7 clone in separate disks cause conflict in bootloader when they attach to one PC?
i have 3 disks in 3 PC and restore one back up of Windows 7 to all of them.
then i return back to office and force to attach 3 hard disks to one of those PCs.
after that my teammate run bcdboot and ...
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How to boot to cloned drive (Windows 8)
I have cloned my system drive to another partition, but it doesn't show in the boot menu (the one that comes with Windows 8 where I can select OS to boot).
How do I fix this?
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Changing the default boot option without losing the boot menu
I've had a working multi-boot setup with the Windows boot loader, containing menu items for two Windows 7 systems, and one for Grub. Grub in turn contains multiple menu items, but I think that's not ...
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Can I triple boot Windows 8, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10?
I have Windows 7 dual booted with Ubuntu 12.10. I can't get rid of any of them, and I want Windows 8 too. How can I triple boot them? Thanks in advance.
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Setting up a triple-boot from scratch - Win7, Win8 and Ubuntu
I'm getting a replacement laptop tomorrow so I get to set it up from scratch. I want to triple-boot Win7, Win8 and Ubuntu (all 64-bit) and I can see several answers about this already, but I was ...
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Better way to quad+ boot operating systems?
I currently have Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 17, and open SUSE installed. I currently use BURG boot loader to load up all the systems. However, BURG does not work with windows(I still manage) ...
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MacBook Pro 8,1 triple boot, rEFIt not showing, Mac only boots on windows
I'm new to Mac multi booting. I've just installed a triple boot (OS X Mountain Lion + Ubuntu 12.04 + Windows 7 Ultimate) on my MacBook Pro 8,1.
Everything went more or less right. I had the rEFIt ...
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Windows 7 boot manager issue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Reinstalling” the Windows 7 boot manager
I was having windows 7 installed on my laptop, yesterday I tried to install Open Suse operating system. During its ...
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How to set up a PC which can be booted from Linux AND Windows?
Our PC was running Windows XP up to know. It has become incredibly slow and I'm considering switching to Linux (Ubuntu?!) as a fresh OS.
However, there are some applications we rarely use which run ...
