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Suggested reading: Rod's books on the topic (don't worry, it's concise with good brief-to-readable ratio).
Other than that, try running efibootmgr in any EFI-booted Linux distribution.(I'd suggest ALT Linux based rescue of my make as a shameless plug though)
If it does include a numbered line for Fedora then maybe it's a question to HP support regarding ...
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What can go wrong, is that you can lose files. It depends on the filesystem and how you access it, but in the worst case, you could lose access to all the data on your linux partition, although it would still be possible to recover - albeit difficult and very time consuming - with the proper tools. More likely is that you might just corrupt the file you ...
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First of all i would like to show you the Bug page of the msftres which is mentioned on Gnome bugzilla https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518439
Your problem might be causing due to reason that, windows 8 is having one extra partition than one recovery partition. this is to keep the gap between Windows partition and else.
Also i won't suggest you to ...
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Some distributions provide an installer that runs in Windows, for example Ubuntu's Wubi. The installer creates a large file on the Windows filesystem that is used by Linux as a virtual disk. Afterwards you can migrate the installation to its own partition.
No matter what solution you choose, you need administrator permissions on Windows.
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What do you want from that LiveCD? Maybe a DVD that boots for you is fine for that if it lends you a shell (try Ctrl-Alt-F2/F3/...) and provides the tools needed.
Try getting to the console, chrooting into the system installed (but lacking the bootloader) and running grub-install (with no additional arguments) by hand to see the error message. Did you ...
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Follow these steps:
Applies to Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and - maybe - Windows 8
Start up Windows just like you normally would, and download the latest (non-test) version of Plop Boot Manager here.
Extract the zip and open the folder "Windows" in it.
If you have Windows XP, double-click the file InstallToBootMenu.bat.
If you have Windows Vista ...
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Possible partitions are:
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
Partition num: 4, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
Partition num: 5, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
Please help - this is what I get on hitting tab after chainload. Unable to boot into windows or ubuntu. I'm a n00b, how do I boot?
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These issues sound related to your problem:
Can't get full screen Centos-64 guest - vista 64 host
Help with virtualbox
In these they're saying that your xorg.conf file should not include any specific display settings for the screen resolution. I would experiment with adding/removing a line like this in my xorg.conf to confirm:
Modes "1280x1024" ...
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Did you install the guest additions?
How much video memory have you set for the display? 3D acceleration enabled?
What does /usr/share/xresprobe/xorg.conf show?
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You should be able to, since gparted is able to resize NTFS partitions without much problem. But back up first (it's a good idea whenever you're working with partitions, in fact).
Ideally you'd shrink C: (where you have the most free space) and create your Linux partitions on the space you just freed.
NTFS partitions are supported on Linux without too ...
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At least some distros offer shrinking NTFS partitions during the Linux installation. Of course, this is possible with free space in that partition only. And you should run Windows' check disk tool immediately before.
There is always a risk when playing with file system structures and partition tables (you should "try" not to have a power outage then...) but ...
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You can't install GRUB to /dev/sda5 (which in standard notation is a reference to the 5th partition of the first disk) because that's not a bootable partition. The OS is only going to check the first partition for a bootable partition, if you want to use it with Windows, I believe you need to install GRUB into it's own boot partition (if I were going to do ...
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Depends on the Windows program, but generally, no.
The reason those linux programs can throw up their display on a PC is because they are written for the X Window System, which completely separates the client from the display server.
X has been ported to virtually every system out there, and is the defacto standard for grpahical programs on Unix/Linux ...
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Yes assuming you've already taken care and backed up any files of consequence on your Ubuntu installation you can just select "install alongside windows" during the Linux Mint installation process.
The pre-existing Ubuntu partition can safely be ignored, just make sure you select the same partition that it was installed to for Linux Mint.
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Looking at this, it would seem that your best bet right now with secure boot is Ubuntu 12.10. Current fedora may also work, but the ubuntu scheme sounds a little more foolproof, since the latter got what amounts to an all-access pass from the OEMs so that each and every driver does not have to be signed.
While Mint is "ubuntu derived", I would guess that ...
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Yes, although it depends on the actual hardware as well and you are going to need QEMU > 1.3 and PCI based card (no AGP, I'm afraid). The keywords you want to search for are VFIO and pass-through (in all of its forms and misspellings).
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Are your .docx files marked as executable?
(you can check this by right-clicking the file and going Properties > Permissions > Execute checkbox)
Does .doc files open fine when double-clicked?
If you answer 'yes' to both questions, you may be experiencing this, which is related to this nasty bug.
Disabling jar using update-binfmts, as suggested in both ...
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I have a UEFI secure boot MSI laptop with OEM Windows 8 installed. I heard about Linux Mint, tried the DVD ISO version and it looked good. I had difficulty booting into Linux at first until I switched to Legacy boot mode. Then all was well. I played with Linux Mint for a bit. Of course, the settings changes I made were lost on reboot. So I took the plunge ...
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