Questions tagged [grub]
This tag is ambiguous: use grub2 or grub-legacy as appropriate.
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Install grub on a disk drive by UUID
On Arch Linux I am trying to do the following:
grub-install /dev/sda
Instead of /dev/sda to do with UUID.
However two points to bring up:
I cannot find UUID for /dev/sda only for /dev/sda1 or /dev/...
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Grub not visible, after installing Ubuntu 19.10 alongside Windows 10
I installed Ubuntu 19.10 alongside Windows 10. I installed it on another disk and i created another partition for EFI bootloader. (Because i got blackscreen after an update and system was damaged ...
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Booting LUKS Linux installation from external USB disk
Before: SATA internal SSD with a LUKS encrypted ext4 partition (Debian installation) + a small unencrypted boot partition with kernel, initrd and GRUB configuration files
After: that same disk is now ...
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How to fix unknown file system error in grub rescue?
Somehow my grub had a problems and it does not know the file system. Is it possible to rescue it?
I have
grub rescue> ls (hd0,msdos5)
(hd0,msdos5): Filesystem is ext2.
grub rescue> set boot=(...
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How do I debug a corrupted self-compiled and installed Linux kernel?
I spun up a Debian (Buster) 4.19.0 VM and after some gcc fun successfully compiled a 3.19.0 Linux kernel. There weren’t any errors and everything seemed to go smoothly as far as I could tell. To ...
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Operating System & Grub in 2 USB Sticks - Arch Linux
I tried very hard on this one, but nothing is coming up,
Basically what I am trying to do is as follows:
When starting my machine before the Windows pop up, the Bios call one USB that holds the GRUB ...
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/bin/bash Permission Denied
I'm trying to install GRUB onto a separate partition who's volume shares a Windows installation. After having pulled, configured, and made GRUB, I can't grub-mkconfig. Doing some research, I found: ...
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EFI\boot\bootx64.efi vs EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi vs /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/grub.efi vs C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\*
I have installed Ubuntu 19 64bit alongside Windows 10 64bit and I found that I have 3 different EFI files in different locations:
EFI\boot\bootx64.efi
EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi
/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/...
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Grub 2 Seems to Trash Its Own Install When Trying to Install to an SD Card
I was trying to install Arch onto an SD card today, and was surprised to find that when I rebooted my machine to test it that it had completely trashed the bootloader on my NVME drive, even though I'...
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Broken grub bootloader on dual boot debian and windows machine
I have machine with AV Linux (variety of Debian 10) and Windows 10. Originally I had Ubuntu and Windows and installed AV Linux in the /dev/sda7 partition. This broke the grub boot loader.
When I ...
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Not able to boot into arch linux after installing arch linux
Hello i'm in a pretty dangerous situation right now,i was installing Arch-Linux into my computer and my grub didn't install correctly as it was showing sector 32 was in use by flexnet and it didn't ...
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grub boot menu not showing after arch installation
After installing arch linux, grub doesn't show the boot menu. Instead I get a grub prompt.
/dev/nvme0n1p1 is the efi partition.
/dev/nvme0n1p2 is the swap partition
/dev/nvme0n1p3 is the file system ...
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edit grub to have multi boot option to have more than 2 OS boot option
How do we edit grub in a UEFI HDD to have multi boot option having more than just one linux one Windows OS, readily being selected and run at PC startup
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Modify /etc/passwd file without logging in
I was experimenting with the /etc/passwd file in my Ubuntu 18.04. I rebooted my machine to check whether the changes are affected. But unfortunately I am not even able to go to the login screen.
The ...
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grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `/boot/efi'
nixos-install
building the configuration in /mnt/etc/nixos/configuration.nix...
copying channel...
installing the boot loader...
setting up /etc...
updating GRUB 2 menu...
mktemp: failed to create ...
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Ubuntu partition booting into gnu grub after being encrypted with Veracrypt
I am dual booting windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.4 and it worked fine till now. Today I encrypted the Linux partition of my hdd using Veracrypt and since then the Ubuntu always boots into gnu grub version 2....
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Installed Debian alongside Windows 10 but GRUB does not show
I have one SSD on which Windows 10 is installed, and one hard drive initially partitioned entirely in NTFS - but I shrunk the NTFS using the Debian installer and installed Debian on the newly freed ...
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Why is Debian “Stretch” force feeding me with unstable (beta) GRUB package?
When searching for available GRUB2 packages for the Debian v9.11.0 "Stretch", I get only beta packages listed:
root@Debian:~# apt search GRUB2
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
grub-imageboot/...
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Transferring Grub on MBR connection to different Linux distribution
I had a Linux distribution which had installed grub on MBR.
Then I installed second Linux distribtion on a different partition but did not install grub in it.
Then I went to first Linux distribution ...
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How to upgrade GRUB v1 to GRUB v2 without installing a Beta version?
My Linux Debian v9.11.0 (Stretch) currently has GRUB1 installed.
root@Debian:~# grub-install -v
grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)
My other Ubuntu Linux has GRUB2 installed:
root@Ubuntu:~# grub-install -...
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Adding a new menu entry to GRUB (booting from hard drive)
Let me preface this by saying that I'm very new to Linux and operating systems in general so I might not understand every aspect of my problem. I would be extremely grateful if someone decided to help ...
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After deleting Ubuntu in a dual Windows 10 and Ubuntu, now none of the two boots up
grub> ls
(hd0,1)/ System Volume Information/ Ubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso
But Ubuntu does not boot and neither does Windows 10.
I get an error message:
You need to load the kernel first
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Can't see the new boot menu on Mint Mate 19.3
The patch notes of Mint 19.3 showed this new boot menu. I've upgraded from 19.2. However I don't see the new boot menu but just the good ol' minimal GRUB. I even ran sudo grub-update but nothing ...
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Grub menu not showing up instead windows directly loads
I have HP da-0077tx laptop pre-installed with DOS but I installed cracked version of Windows 10. Now I recently installed Elementary OS (dual boot). After installing Elementary OS due to some reasons, ...
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Unable to set default entry in grub menu
I have a computer with two different Debian operating systems installed on it. I usually use the first installed one, but I'm not able to correctly set up grub to use that as the default option: every ...
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Vmlinuz invalid signature at Install with CentOS 8
When trying to install CentOS 8 in my Desktop with a asus motherboard that supports UEFI and secure boot I got the error /images/pxeboot/vmlinuz invalid signature, googling I found that it was about ...
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systemd Time out waiting for device dev-mapper-vg
I've got a Debian Jessie system and I'm trying to recover this onto a RAID 1 with LVM.
I've got a RAID1 over two 2TB NVMe drives and my /boot is on a USB booting in Legacy mode to Grub2. That bit ...
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Manjaro update-grub syntax error
After letting my computer sit for an extended time without updating, I ran Pacman -Syu for a full system update. During the update the process was interrupted or something because the grub entries ...
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Dual boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint wont boot to GRUB
Dual boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint wont boot to GRUB.
Recently installed Linux Mint on my home computer. I am dual booting Linux and Windows 10. Windows 10 is installed on my SSD and Linux is on my ...
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Can I update Debian through grub? [closed]
After an update of Debian 9 ('Stretch'), I can't open any program. Is there anything I can do on grub? Can't even open a terminal.
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Unable to boot into osx after resizing partition and installing ubuntu
After installing ubuntu on my macbook it now shows up when pressing alt at startup and i can boot it.
The problem is, that the Macintosh HD OSx installation does'nt show up as a boot option anymore. ...
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/boot /home structure needs cleaning. I cannot access to those folders
After a night leaving ddrescue running to clone a external disk to another external disk and creating the log file in my internal hard disk, I got up and the laptop was stuck so i restarted it.
When ...
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GRUB does not show selection of OS
I have installed Arch Linux and GRUB afresh. It seems to have worked alright, but when I now boot from the harddisk, I only get the GRUB prompt, without any operating systems to boot. My guess is that ...
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Installing Arch Linux Error: grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory
I'm trying to install Arch Linux on my machine, following these instructions.
timedatectl set-ntp true
timedatectl status
cfdisk
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2
mkswap /dev/sda3
swapon /dev/sda3
mount /dev/sda2 /...
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Multiboot USB purely Linux - No third party software
Is it possible to create a multiboot USB for Linux distributions, purely from Linux, without third party software?
NOTE: this is a self-answered question. I wanted to share my methods with the ...
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Cannot reset root password through Linux command menu
When I run through the full sequence of commands given to me to reset my root password, the Linux Command menu says I correctly reset my password, however I cannot use the password i set it to. The ...
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Linux password reset through Grub menu doesn't work
when i try to reset my root password through the grub menu I get the prompt:
root@(none):/#
If i wait to long, like 4 seconds, I get the message:
[ 15.011870]random: crng init done
[ 15....
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How to add second linux distro (xubuntu) to grub?
I installed Xubuntu on a pcie ssd to use side-by-side with Mint. But, I still want to use Mint on its current SATA ssd drive. Ideally, I'd like to make sure that the Xubuntu installation is bootable (...
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GRUB normal.mod not found after installation
I am trying to install Linux dual booted with Windows on my computer.
I am interested in networking so after researching online a bit, I wanted to install Kali.
After getting a Live USB loaded up, I ...
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grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Function not implemented
after upgrading to Ubuntu 19.04 I frequently got a 'failed to register the EFI boot entry: Function not implemented.' error when installing new packages. Now I updated to Ubuntu 19.10 and the ...
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Grub2 Warning: Syntax error (missing slash) in '`
Recently I upgraded from ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. But due to some unknown reason I started to receive this warning message before my grub2 menu shows up.
I have no problem converting /etc/default/grub ...
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GRUB loads always windows in safe mode [SOLVED]
I've installed Fedora 31 on a notebook with Windows 10, GRUB shows me different options on boot, and when I choose Windows the system starts but always in safe mode. I have no options to load Windows ...
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double grub problem
I have just installed a new ubuntu on my system which lives alongside another linux distro. My original linux distro uses grub to boot. However now when I boot my laptop it boots into a new grub which ...
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Grub detect wrong version of Windows [duplicate]
i have a laptop with Windows Vista but Grub detects as Windows 8 no matter what distro i use, Grub always detects my Windows Vista as Windows 8, how can i fix this?
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ucsi_ccg_init failed - -110
[ OK ] GRUB failed boot detection.
[ 145.200501] ucsi_ccg 0-0008: ucsi_ccg_init failed - -110
System not booting up
Tried Linux 5.0.0-32 Genric recovery mode, what happened is attached in the pic.
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Specification of efi-directory and device in grub-install
I have this layout of my USB flash disk:
+---------------+ +----------------+
| | | |
| EFI partition | | data partition |
| | | |
+------...
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Grub2 chainload syslinux
I have a USB with GRUB installed.
I add linux ISO images, and use their grub.cfg file to boot. Everything fine so far, with many distros.
But now I want to boot an ISO image that doesn't have GRUB ...
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Fail to boot: mounting `/boot/efi` raises “IO charset iso8859-1 not found”
I was using Ubuntu 19.04 for some time and wanted to try the recently released Pop!_OS 19.10. I want to keep using GRUB, but Pop!_OS (or maybe I did it while trying to repair) mangled my bootloader, ...
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How to ensure that GRUB is booted by default, not Windows
I have a Dell G5 laptop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 installed to an NVME drive with /home and D: partitions mounted on the Hdd
Previously, when I switched my laptop on it would go to GRUB by ...
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Multiple issues after Debian installaion
I installed Debian 10 to dual-boot on my Mac mini.
I followed the instructions from the Debian site and I manage to boot into Debian.
However, there is no OSX on Grub and in Debian there are no wifi, ...
