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I have two bootable flash drives with different linux distros installed on each, both started malfunctioning within a 24 hour time frame
I could use some detective work.
I've taken to installing linux on USB drives. I've managed to break Windows a couple of times while repartitioning my main drive.
I've had a 128 Gb USB drive I've been ...
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Grub rescue preventing me to install/boot new os from usb stick
I have a HP laptop.I was having dual boot window 10 and ubantu. then i deleted ubantu partition along with grub boot partition.
I have USB bootable stick which filesystem is of type ExFat.
I made it ...
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Dual boot (Ubuntu)-(Ubuntu with boot partition on usb)
I have two internal SSDs in my computer, one that currently has Ubuntu 20 installed with the following partitioning:
nvme0n1
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GRUB Bootloader depends on my bootable flash drive to find Windows 10 on the internal eMMc drive
For the rest of this question, you can assume anything with 'internal' refers to the internal eMMc drive of my laptop, anything with 'USB' refers to my bootable USB flash drive, 'Debian' means Debian ...
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Why can't i resize my main HDD partition even after booting from a USB stick media?
I am trying to run windows alongside my POP!_OS and when trying to divide my hdd in half, i find that it's fully used and has no free space when i'm using 1T HDD and i'm more than sure i don't even ...
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Fixing the UEFI entry after unplugging the drive
I completely unplugged my Linux SSD and reinstalled Windows on another hard drive.
I plugged in the Linux-SSD again after the installation, but when I tried to boot it my computer wanted to boot to ...
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booting old netbook [closed]
I have a complete confusion of boot problems on an old netbook. It's dual boot, details below, used every ~2 months for travelling.
1) One day it simply wouldn't boot. Power-light on, brief flicker ...
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Both Windows & Ubuntu on HDD and installation USB won't boot now
This old DELL laptop originally comes with Windows 7, then I installed Ubuntu some time last year.
Ubuntu has been unable to boot or install or LIVE any linux distros since this April, I've tried same ...
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How to make a bootabe pendrive (USB Drive) consisting of multiple os?
Say I want to make a USB Drive that contains a bootable Ubuntu, Arch and other. How to do that?
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Ubuntu 16.10 akwardly slow at booting up after kali linux and Windows 10 triple boot
I had Ubuntu 16.10 and Windows (ubuntu's grub as bootloader) on my laptop, yesterday I decided to install Kali with it too, so I shrank the Windows 10 partition of 60 gb and filled the created space ...
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How to install more than one OS on a pendrive?
I have a Windows 10 laptop. While I want to use Linux based OS I don't want to partition my HD or remove Windows OS. So I thought of installing Ubuntu on a 64gb pendrive and running the OS from it. ...
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Unable to create Kali Linux bootable USB with Windows10/Ubuntu
I am trying to Triple boot Kali Linux with windows and Ubuntu. Ubuntu and Windows 10 are both already installed on my Dell-Inspiron. I was following the tutorial at Making a Kali Bootable USB Drive to ...
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grub2 cannot see filesystem on alternate /boot partition
I have 2 (soon to be more) independent OSes. Right now it is just CentOS 6.6 and 7, but will be adding several more.
I can boot CentOS 7 cleanly, but 6.6 will not boot. The error is:
error: no such ...
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how do I do a command line only boot of CentOS 7?
Can someone please explain how to trigger a command line only boot of CentOS 7 from a USB boot stick? I want to boot the terminal only and then use the normal CentOS 7 terminal to swap out the ...
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Trouble installing <distro> onto correct partition for a dual boot
Some of the context might not be relevant to the problem so feel free to skim through the rest of this post but essentially what I'm doing is trying to install an operating system onto the KAOS ...
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dual boot from two different harddrives, windows and lubuntu not working
I have a computer with two harddrives. I first installed my Windows 8.1 on my ssd taking up the whole drive. Then on my second 2TB I made 3 partitions. 1TB is dedicated to external storage, 500GB is ...
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How to install Linux distro to a second hdd from within a running Linux Desktop Environment?
More specifically, I am running Fedora18 on my main HDD. I have a second HDD in the "UltraBay" slot of my ThinkPad W520--eSata connection.
Is there a possibility to avoid creating a LiveCD/USB, ...
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Debian Linux is not starting because no bootable device was found
I have installed Debian with the Gnome Live CD on my notebook.
Because there are still some applications which I need, it was necessary that I also have a Windows 7 system installed.
Based on some ...
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How to dualboot Win7 and Chrome-OS on Netbook
I have tested Google Chrome OS (aka Chromium OS) using a USB pen drive, or more precisely Chrome OS Lime by Hexxeh.
Since I like it I would like to install it along side of my pre-installed Windows ...
