grub

hi guys i have dual windows 7 and linux mint 17 i thought that switching to linux would be great, but everyday there was some kind of problem with linux, wifi, wine, update and so on, i tried it patiently to get used to it, but most of the time i was actually fixing things on linux instead...

yesterday i have install linux mint 17 MATE along side windows 7 ultimate . but when start it shows GNU GRUB Menu with default start Linux Mint 17 MATE 32-bit, 3.13.0-24-generic . my point is i want to make Windows 7 as default start (in the first in GRUB menu) . is it possible ?? how??? Also...

So last week i faced a problem with elementary os i can not boot in to the system it goes black after the grub boot screen i am fine with a reinstall but is there a way to backup my programs? Or any way to fix the black screen after grub?

Hi friends. I was trying to install kubuntu 12.04 from usb stick. I chose that the bootloader should be installed to "dev/sda". The installation went smoothly until at the end it displayed something like grub install failed to dev/sda. Without it you cannot boot into ubuntu. Please tell me what...

Hi TDF, :) I am planning on installing Elementary OS LUNA and ubuntu 13.10 along with my Windows 7 SP1 partitioned laptop. At the moment i only have the windows installed. Am not worried about the partitioning, but is there anything in particular when installing multiple OS's in my sammy...

Here is the thing, My laptop is Samsung NP550P5C-S01IN!! I have a windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome remix running in the dual boot. Before one week i bumped into the fuduntu distro which is .rpm based. So i downloaded the latest version and i tried to write the .iso file to my pendrive, as my...

[SOLVED] Trouble dual booting Server 2k8 and Ubuntu Hello, I have an Ubuntu Natty installation and I installed Windows Server 2008 on another partition. So it directly booted to Server when the PC was turned on. So I used Rescatux to restore the grub. Now Ubuntu boots but there's no Server...

I have a core i5,Intel DP67BG mainboard,4GB DDR3 machine with Sapphire Radeon 6870HD with windows 7 installed previously. I downloaded this Ubuntu 11.04 and ran it as live CD and seemed to found no problem. But I installed it to make my PC dual booting but after the menu choosing at GRUB...

Hi, Yesterday, I installed linux mint in a hp laptop , After installation, The GRUB boot loader showed windows 7. But when I select windows 7, it loads half a way, (when the qual color balls come flying,) it suddenly crashed and reboots with a BSOD. I tried to repair it with the windows...

Hello! I have installed Chromium OS along with my Ubuntu today following instructions at the following website. multiboot [Chromium OS builds by Hexxeh] The problem is that the author has given help regarding altering the Grub 2 menu list to be able to boot into Chromium. But I have...

Hi guys I am going to add another 1TB HDD on my system and want to split it into two partitions of 500GB each. I will be allocating one partition each to ubuntu 11.04 and XP. The problem is that I've already installed Windows 7 on my primary hard disk. So I wanted to know if it's possible...

Hello! I want to install Xp Professional, Vista Ultimate and Ubuntu all on a single hard disk on separate partitions in such a way that 1. I'm able to boot Xp, Vista and Ubuntu all from Grub with each Os having its individual menu choice (avoiding going through Vista Bootloader menu to...

I had ubuntu and xp dusl booting just fine . Today I had to create a partition in xp (disk management), but upon rebooting I got an error and grub 2 didn't load (got an grub_rescue prompt) Why did this happen ? Am i missing something or did this happen because of creating a partition in...

few weeks back i used to dual boot between XP and MINT 10 until an evil virus infiltrated XP and destroyed my GRUB bootloader. i then had to "FIXMBR" and "FIXBOOT" using the XP CD to restore my XP. but i have to do this everytime i open my comp after shutting it down. Now i want to get free...

Last Night I downloaded some updates, total of around 300 Mb on my Ubuntu 9.10. Then it prompted me to restart the system,. which I did. After which, my Ubuntu is not loading back to its previous state of Destop. The Grub seems to miss the menu.lst file, as I searched and found out. There seems...

hi first i had windows xp & 7 then i formatted xp and reinstalled it and also after that i installed linux mint 8 now the windows 7 boot option is disappeared tell me how can i add it to the grub loader of linux pls reply.

I have 4 partitions in my hard disk. I divided the 4th partition into 2 (ext4 and swap) and installed Ubuntu 10.04. After that when I logged into windows(XP) and deleted the 2 partitions on which I had installed Ubuntu, my grub disappeared. When I booted afterwards, the following error came...

:grin:the most awaited Ubuntu distribution is out today...... it's launch was postpone due to a bug in GRUB. It was not showing other OS entries in it, when dual booted..... so the release was postpone for a couple of days as the professional team of Ubuntu thought that it might make wrong...

windows 7 is acting as a complete screw up jealous OS and is wiping off grub every time it boots from my openSUSE + win7 dual boot on Dell Studio 14. can somebody please suggest me how to go about teaching it to coexist??

My PC specs are as follows: P4 2.0GHZ MSI PM8M-V Motherboard Onboard Via P4M800 Graphic Chip 512MB DDR RAM I need a distro for the above machine. I tried Ubuntu 9.10, Fedora 12 LXDE but both of them feel slow. I went to install Arch but it failed to boot giving a GRUB error i.e. Grub hanging at...