Is it possible to dual boot between Ubuntu and W7.vhd? If anyone knows please tell me how.
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I deploy my Windows 7 with imagex.exe. I do this by means some batch script :
Win7_install.bat:
cls
Diskpart /s Win7_install.txt
Imagex /apply Win7_October.wim 1 C:
Bcdboot C:\Windows
Exit
Win7_install.txt:
SELECT DISK 0
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SIZE=102400
SELECT PARTITION 1
FORMAT fs=ntfs LABEL=”SYSTEM” quick
ASSIGN LETTER=C
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 2
FORMAT fs=ntfs LABEL=”DATA” quick
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
EXIT
Then after restart I have duplicate entries in boot menu. Anybody have some idea how fix it?
Regards
I currently have a laptop with Windows Vista, and I'd like to upgrade to Windows 7 and also install Ubuntu Linux as dual boot. I need to make disk partitions used by Windows smaller to make room for Linux.
What is easiest way to upgrade? Should I resize Vista partition first to make room for linux installation, or should I upgrade first to Windows 7 and resize partitions after upgrade.
I read somewhere that the ultimate boot cd can diagnos computer problems in this case would this program help me get my windows xp back? When I turn on the screen and hit start windows normal or go to safe mode I get a flash of the win xp logo and then it goes to this error page. Can you tell from this message is it a hardware or software issue
I would like to create an alternative booting possibility in my GRUB menu that does not start some services (listed by chkconfig) like cups.
I would use this boot during travel where I surely does not need these services and shorter bootup time is preferable. Permanent removal of such services is not an option because I could not miss them during normal daily work.
I use Mandriva 2010 with the latest updates.
I am getting the UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME error on my Samsung laptop which does not have a CD Rom drive. I tried to merge the C and D partitions to get more space but since then the laptop does not start up anymore.
I dont care about the laptop, just about some pictures on there which I did not back up yet. I really hope someone can help me?!!
I am a new user, so cant post pictures, but can send a screenshot if needed.
I formatted a 16 GB USB Stick today so I could boot from it and that works great. The problem I have is it won't let me copy a 7GB Ghost image over to USB, it says there isn't enough space. When I look Windows shows there is 14GB available. Can anyone give me some insight into this issue?
I have copied an ISO file into a partition (i.e. dd if=isofile of=/dev/sdb1). How can I boot into that partition via GRUB?
When I try just with chainloader (hd1,0)+1, it says unknown executable format.
(I know that there are some questions similar to this one, but the ones I have read (and I have read more than one, did not answer my question)
I have installed, in two physically different hard drives Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.0.
I would like to have a dual boot that, if nothing was pressed, the Windows XP would start automatically.
I have read about Grub but got the impression that it wasn't possible to default the operating system to start to something other than Ubuntu.
Thanks.
Just successfully installed and ran windows 8 to go on an external usb hdd.
After shutdown and removing the usb hard disk, tried to start my laptop which has a single windows 7 system, but failed to boot and even repair trials didn't succeed.
It seems that win 8 affected the strucure of the laptop hard drive which results in corruption in its main win 7 partition.
How to fix that and avoid future problems of the same type?
thanks.
Hello.
There is a broken kernel module, due to which I can not even load the OS, so I can not delete or fix it. Is it possible to skip this module at boot, using the kernel's parameters or something?
Thanks.
I have a Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Keyboard 8000, and when the charger/usb-hub is connected, the computer won't start. All I get is the bios boot screen, and it won't go further. But if I disconnect either the usb-cable or the power-cable to the charger the computer boots normally.
Any suggestions as to what's causing this behaviour? I've tried the charger on two different computers with the same result.
I have a Dell desktop that is hanging at the Windows XP splash screen and eventually (after about 5 minutes) cycles to a "F1 to retry boot F2 to enter setup utility".
I tried to start the computer in Safe Mode but it eventually cycles to the same "F1, F2" screen.
What are the likely causes and what are the remedies?
I trying to create a dual boot of linux and mac without bootcamp. But I'm nervous that I'll screw up or lose my data.
In disk utilitys I made a 45gig partion called linux but I dont know how to format it and if it matters at all....
Also, when the partition is done. I press cntrl when booting up select that Linux partition and put in the livebootUSB or CD right?
I want to change Windows 7's boot screen. Is there any way?
Edit: I'm not talking about the logon screen. I'm talking about the screen which you see before the Welcome screen:
I've got an old linux server that failed to boot this morning. It's running Debian stable. I get the following on the console:
LILO 22.8 Loading Linux......................................................................................................................................................... ............
And it just sits there. Any idea what is going on or how I can fix this?
I am using Windows XP and this morning it didn't boot, it showed an error on "Windows/system32/config/SYSTEM" so I connected the hd to another pc, rename that file and then copy the one in Windows/Repair. And now it shows the error cannot find or corrupted "ntfs.sys".
I tried copying ntfs.sys from the windows installation cd but still get the same error, also tried "EXPAND :\i836\ntoskrnl.exe ( and ntkrnlpa.exe ) :\Windows\System32" but the error persist.
What other fixes can I try?
After an update yesterday my Dell X300 will only boot to a screen with an option to perform 2 memory tests. If I perform these tests, it will only go back to this same screen, offering a choice of memory test again, 86+ or 86+ serial console 115200. This screen is headed - GNU Grub version 1.97 beta 4.
This is a full install on my hard drive.
How can I get back to booting normally?
My system doesn't boot at all, upon starting it takes me to the Windows Error Recovery screen saying "Windows failed to start, a recent software or hardware change might be the cause" and gives two options
Launch System Repair (Recommended)
Start Windows normally
But neither options work, upon clicking either of them, some progress bars get displayed and the screen just freezes on "Starting Windows".
I tried booting from the Windows 7 disk but it too freezes on the "Starting Windows" screen.
I even tried booting from ubuntu, slax linux, but they don't work too.
I'm running a dual boot configuration on my laptop using Ubuntu 10.04b and Windows 7 Home Premium.
Windows 7 was the original OS and I added a 'side by side' installation of Ubuntu. Ubuntu, however, shows up first on the list. I'd like to change this order and make Windows 7 first, followed by Ubunutu, then all of the recovery boots after that.
Any help on how this is done?
We have a two-domain Active Directory forest: ourcompany.com at the root, and prod.ourcompany.com for production servers. Time is propagating properly through the root domain, but servers in the child domain are unable to sync via NTP. So the time on these servers is starting to drift, since they're relying only on the hardware clock.
WHen I type "net time" on one of the production servers, I get the following error:
Could not locate a time-server.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3912.
When I type "w32tm /resync", i get the following:
Sending resync command to local computer
The computer did not resync because no time data was available.
"w32tm /query /source" shows the following:
Free-running System Clock
We have three domain controllers in the prod.ourcompany.com subdomain (overkill, but the result of a migration - we haven't gotten rid of one of the old ones yet.) To complicate matters, the domain controllers are all virtualized, running on two different physical hosts. But the time on the domain controllers themselves is accurate - the servers that aren't DCs are the ones having problems.
Two of the DCs are running Server 2003, including the PDC emulator. The third DC is running Server 2008. (I could move the PDC emulator role to the 2008 machine if that would help.) The non-DC servers are all running Server 2008.
All other Active Directory functionality works fine in the production domain - we're only seeing problems with NTP.
I can manually sync each machine to the time source (the PDC emulator) by doing the following:
net time \\dc1.prod.ourcompany.com /set /y
But this is just a one-off, and it doesn't cause automated time syncing to start working. I guess I could create a scheduled task which runs the above command periodically, but I'm hoping there's a better way.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why this isn't working, and what we can do to fix it?
Thanks for your help,
Richard
As a person with a quite limited CLI experience I congratulate myself on installing Ubuntu on an ancient non-pae Fujitsu Amilo M1425 thru the network with mini.iso. However upon reboot I'm met w/ the following:
Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS ubuntu-fujitsu tty1
ubuntu-fujitsu login:
for which my specified login during setup is not accepted. (I'm quite sure its correct) Let's assume this screen is passed, how to start the GUI and make it the permanent option during boot? This box will return to a mostly comp-illiterate person, for which the existence of ubuntu will be an enough shock already. Wouldn't wanna leave him w/o the GUI.
Other posts here mention the command startx but I probably need a login in the first place.. So "why won't it accept my login & how can I make the GUI-boot permanent?" is my question. Thanks in advance.
I have a weird problem with some servers here at work. We have a few XEN guests who's current time fluctuates.
# date;date;date;date;date;date;date
Thu Feb 25 16:00:40 PHT 2010
Thu Feb 25 16:00:48 PHT 2010
Thu Feb 25 16:00:40 PHT 2010
Thu Feb 25 16:00:48 PHT 2010
Thu Feb 25 16:00:40 PHT 2010
Thu Feb 25 16:00:48 PHT 2010
Thu Feb 25 16:00:40 PHT 2010
As seen above, the time fluctuates between 16:00:48 and 16:00:40, which is problematic for us since computing for time differences in some of our scripts becomes inaccurate (ex. what should be a few ms differences becomes some few second differences, and even sometimes, negative differences).
The problematic servers are linux guests on a XEN host. The time fluctuates on the guest systems, but it is okay in the host itself. I've ruled out ntpd since this happens irregardless of whether ntpd is running or not on the guest systems.
Guest is on full virtualisation. The time on both the host and the guest does match except that the time in the guest fluctuates at about a few seconds from the host's time, and the host time does not fluctuate.
/proc/sys/xen/independent_wallclock is 0 in the host and does not exist in the guest. Ntpd service was stopped and disabled. Setting independent_wallclock to 1 in the host has no effect (that is, time still fluctuates in the guest). Though I was not able to restart the guest as it is a production server. Might be able to do that over the weekend.
Any ideas on what to check and how to resolve this problem?
I had installed a Ubuntu 12.04 and Fedora 17 dual boot on my system. During the installation I had installed Ubuntu first and Fedora later. Fedora had recognized Ubuntu and added it to the GRUB OS selection list. Afterwards I installed some routine updates on my Ubuntu and after that I am just not able to see the GRUB OS selection anymore when I boot. I am unable to understand what happened, both Fedora and Ubuntu use GRUB 2.0. Also it seems Ubuntu is not able to recognize other existing linux operating systems; because in the beginning I had installed Fedora first and Ubuntu later, but Ubuntu did not recognize Fedora at all, while Fedora recognized Ubuntu when I installed the other way round.