Dual-boot is the process of having two (or more) operating systems installed on a computer, allowing one to be chosen during the boot process.
Questions tagged [dual-boot]
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Dual booting Scientific Linux 6 and 64 bit Windows 7
For a school project we need to run Scientific Linux as well. So I tried installing it.
I had Windows 7 running on on drive C (NTFS). Drives D and E(500 GB each; NTFS format) were empty. I ran the Scientific Linux 6.0 Live cd and booted from it.
I…
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Detecting installed OSs
When one tries to dual-boot a Linux distro (say Ubuntu) with a pre-existing install of Windows or other OSs, the installer detects the presence of the other OS.
I want to know how an installer does it.
I did my research and found packages like…
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grub menu no longer is listed after switching from ubuntu to manjaro
so i replaced my ubuntu partition on my ssd with manjaro, and upon reboot my grub menu was gone and replaced with the grub command line interface. I noticed after digging around in bios settings that the manjaro grub was even listed in the boot…
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Will I break my system if I persistently use a PC with triple boot installed (Win8, Ubuntu & Kali)
I have successfully installed three OSs; Kali linux, Ubuntu and Windows 8. What are the chances I break my system if I use this type of 'way of using pc' for years?
Is it possible to break my system if let say I boot Kali Linux, and then…
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I am new to Ubuntu and need some assistance. I have an issue with an rfkill issue
I have an old laptop that I have tried a few distros on, and I have decided that I would like to install Mint on my Ssung laptop. I installed as dual boot with windows 10 and seemed to work fine. Now every time I try to boot to Mint, I get a message…
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What are other options on Gnu Grub Boot Loader on dual boot?
I am dual-booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 and on the OS selection screen there are the options of Ubuntu and Windows, but I can see a few more options, Advanced Options and Memory test or sometthing like that. I dont really know what they might…
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Selecting bootable USB seems to be totally ignored
I currently have a setup on Debian Stretch and I want to dual boot with Ubuntu 16.04. I'm not very experienced in installing another OS so I'm not sure what I'm doing.
What I've done so far :
I have downloaded the desktop iso for Ubuntu 16.04.…
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cannot boot my ubuntu partition
I am running SUSE 11.2. Ubuntu is on the extended partition /dev/sda5, but when I boot I get
Error 19: Linux kernel must be loaded before initrd
This is the Ubuntu entry in menu.lst:
#Don’t change this comment – YaST2 identifier: Original name:…
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Grub fails on fresh install
I decided to dual setup my desktop also. Install and dual boot, no problem. Installed updates, no problem, no error msg. But on reboot, grub was not visible, and it autobooted into 12.04. works fine. But I figured out that grub was there but not…
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Dual Boot: Run Linux alongside an encrypted Windows (by Truecrypt)
Does anybody have a solution on how I can run Linux (Mint) alongside Truecrypt which needs to be encrypted by truecrypt?
Ideally though I would like both operating systems encrypted by Truecrypt, but that isn't possible as Truecrypt is lacking in…
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boot menu doesn't appear after upgrading to OS X Yosemite
I was using both OS X Mavericks and Ubuntu but after upgrading to OS X Yosemite I can't see the boot menu. I have tried both rEFIt and rEFInd but both doesn't work . Also have tried --alldrivers while again installing rEFInd .
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Windows and Ubuntu dual boot, can't add grub to uefi boot options
I try to set up windows+linux on lenvo p50.
Installation:
windows installation, installer also made 100mb efi partition
ubuntu installation, same disk
After that I would like to choose boot from "Windows Boot Loader" and "Ubuntu/Grub". However…
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What would be causing the following BIOS errors and why?
I recently installed Deepin OS on my laptop for educational purposes (Dual boot with Windows 10) a few days later, once trying to boot into Deepin OS it showed me the following BIOS errors and it keeps being stuck there without successfuly booting…
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How to copy/paste files from Linux to Windows on Dual Boot locally?
I am trying to copy and paste a file from Linux to Windows using Dolphin File manager, however the option is greyed out. Is this not possible? or do I need to use something else?
I can see my windows files from Linux and copy them over to Linux, but…
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Multiple Booting
I have Dell Inspiron shipped with Win 10 Home Edition and MS Office. 1 TB of HDD with partition of C: 416 GB; E and F each having 249 GB. I want to Boot Ubuntu LTS, Kali Linux, Arch Linux and Fedora. Later on maybe Gentoo and Slackware also.
Will…
