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When my netbook boots, the GRUB menu does not wait me to choose between systems. It goes automatically into Ubuntu system. How can I solve this problem?
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I have an interesting issue that has me stumped. Not that I'm a computer whiz or anything. I have a multi-boot system with two hard drives: one drive has CentOS and Windows XP 64-bit and the other drive has Windows XP 32-bit. CentOS grub boot loader works great, and I have it set to default to…
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Is there any application that allows access to the other os in a multi-boot computer?
Access like in a virtual machine. Wherein you are able to see your other installation through it. Make file modifications, installs, and uninstalls. And those changes are being mirrored in your physical os when…
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I wanna cut my 8 gb usb key into several partitions to use wintoflash for a windows xp (maybe nlited before) and I wanna put also the Framakey ubuntu-fr remix pack into it has the second bootable OS and tweak and mod it a little cause if I can I wanna switch ubuntu 9.04 included to the LTS version…
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I have a laptop with windows vista and windows 7 as the os.
The vista has an installation of kaspersky antivirus 2009 with original license. Since I am not using Vista frequently, can I transfer or make use of that installation on windows vista to be utilize by Windows 7? Without having to uninstall…
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Hi
Regarding to the solution there: http://serverfault.com/questions/36385/how-can-i-mount-a-hard-drive-as-read-only-on-windows-xp
I have a system with three partitions. One runs windows 7, one runs windows XP and is for some experimental programming and testing. I don't want to mess up anything…
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Sony VAIO with Insyde H2O EFI bios will not boot into GRUB EFI
The answer to this question was immensely helpful to me and my new Vaio Z3. The issue that I am having now is that after replacing bootmgfw.efi with grubx64.efi and renaming, it boots directly to grub console. I dont even get a menu where…
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I have windows XP professional installed on 1 hard drive and Ubuntu 10.10 on my second hard drive.
On start up the computer completely skips the grub menu and boots straight into 10.10.
I have tried running os-prober with the windows hard drive mounted and then updating grub but it didnt work.
Any…
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I am unable to shutdown. Whenever I try to shutdown, it reboots. I am running Ubuntu 12.10.
I have run the boot-repair and this is the result:
Boot Info Script 0.61.full + Boot-Repair extra info [Boot-Info November 20th 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
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I had Windows XP and Ubuntu both installed. I could easily boot into either until Windows "fixed" the bootloader so that it now only boots into Windows.
I guess there is no way to prevent Windows from doing this. So instead when it happens how do I quickly restore the GRUB bootloader?
Also while…
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Hi
I have install oracle linux 4.5 on server twice but having same problem.
The server hangs on booting just displays "GRUB C" i don't know why is it happening.
Please advice is it the drive issue.
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