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G'day all. I've got Ubuntu 18.04.4 and Windows 10 dual booted on a Surface Laptop 3. I have GRUB configured to allow both Ubuntu and "Windows Boot Manager" to be chosen from it. However, whenever I start the laptop up, and after the initial Microsoft logo splash, there is always a period of...

hello fellow linux users, i come to you in a time of great need. So i installed awesome wm and played around for a bit (created configuration files in my home directory) and decided to log off. After clicking the log off button, the screen said: /dev/sda1: clean, xxxxx/xxxxx files, xxxx/xxxxx...

Hi I am using a ubuntu 16.04 on Alienware Aurora R8, the OS is installed in a Dell 512G SSD, and I also have a data-drive which is 1 Samsung 4T SSD. Everything works perfectly until this afternoon. The system fails to boot. I have attached the screen-shot of the failure message here. Any...

I have this old laptop that i havent use in a while with dual boot windows 7 / kali linux. The problem is that i tried to update since it was the kali linux version from 2016. I had an error during the installation of some packages, so i decided maybe with a reboot the errors might not show up...

Hi. I want make my own linux distro x64 with minimum components. I want to make it live USB with option to install on HDD + install mods in future.

After updating to the latest version via apt update; apt upgrade the system stopped loading. When the computer starts, the following message appears: error: symbol 'grub_file_filters' not found. Entering rescue mode. Next comes the input prompt. The ls command displays 3 sections. (hd0), (hd0...

I have Windows 10 in mi laptop, but I also had Deepin OS, Ubuntu and Elementary OS (Ubuntu Based). (I have uninstalled them all) And in the boot menu, this is what shows up: This are the options in boot menu. So, I know Windows Boot Manager is for booting Windows, but I don't know what exactly...

Hi. I have a dual boot notebook, with Debian9 and Windows10. After an update on my Debian 9, there were some problem about "unexpected inconsistency" and the system asked me to run fcsk manually. The system gave me a lot of message like "linux error reading block inode force rewrite" and after a...

Hi Guys, I am new here and was searching for help online and though asking in a forum would help. I recently installed ubuntu (dual boot with windows 10) it booted fine in the first place however, after I shutdown my laptop turned it back on and now it is stuck on the grub loader screen, I can...

Hello Dear linux community I wasn't sure where I should write about it and in general if it would be useful, because I am quite a new to linux and I think, I fell I don't understand much. Anyway so in short I had firstly a ubuntu 16 on my PC and then I found my PC is not powerful enough to...

I had installed Pop OS in my laptop (dual booted with Windows). However the booting took too long and I decided to reinstall Pop OS. Even now it takes a long time. I have attached a screenshot of the "systemd-analyze blame" command output. Please tell me how I can improve it. (I have an 8GB Ram...

hey everyone, i cant boot on my linux mint system, im afraid maybe grb2 is broken or even uninstalled im totally lost! would you please help? boot repair didnt work and gave me this : Boot Info Script 8f991e4 + Boot-Repair extra info [Boot-Info 25oct2017] =============================...

Hi guys, I've been using Linux for a while and recently bought a new laptop. So the thing is that my new laptop has a Nvidia GTX 1050 Max-Q secondary graphic card. So I faced exactly the same issue with both Parrot OS and Kali Linux. I will start with Parrot OS. I would like to add that both...

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Turn of my PC and go to sleep Then starting the PC this morning and after the BIOS-start-up, and going to boot into OS, the screen is black Can't do a "CTRL+AL+F3" What can I do now?? (The monitor and computer is ok (checked with "Live-USB" )

Hi all, I've just done an apt-get dist-upgrade on my Debian 9.6 server, and during the process, it attempted to update GRUB. This failed as it could not find the disk when it attempted to install. I told it not to install GRUB, thinking a simple grub-install /dev/sda1 would work after the...

Hello, I've a problem installing deepin (15.7 and 15.8 same problem). Basically i create a usb drive ( i double checed md5, used different usbs and different methods like deepin bootcreator, rufus, unetbootin and dd) and everything is fine untill i reach the deepin logo (where "deepin" is...

Greetings. Me and my colleagues are developing software, to be run and tested in a Linux OS. We're not in the office often, so we will usually be handing a flash drive back and forth with our work on it. So, we want to have a Linux OS (with all of our files, tools, applications, and docs) on a...

Hello, recently i was playing around with the distribution mx linux Has someone tried it? in the boot I got this acpi error .. but later i could login then i put in the terminal dmesg | grep -i error it shows me this : btw I noticed the process of xorg and firefox consumes a lot...

First off, need to say my PC is a mess (later). Have an HP Pavillion tower desktop, was running Windows 7 until using a utility on the Registry and only shows the "GRUB loading ... grub rescue". Haven't got round to dual-booting Mint or Manjaro (or both) on it just yet. What I meant by my...