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  1. King Friday

    Trouble installing ISO Kali

    This is my starting point. I have Kali iso installed on a 32 GB USB Drive using Rufus. This is a Windows 11 machine but I'm trying to install Kali on a brand new SSD. I'm continually hitting a treadmill when I get to the Partitioning part of the Graphical Install. No matter if I select, "Guided...
  2. M

    Wifi adapter doesn't show up

    I am running Manjaro on a dual boot with windows 11. I just installed it today. The wifi was giving some problems. It connected for a few seconds and quickly disconnected, I could not get the connection back up again. I searched for solutions and stumbled upon this sudo sed -i 's/3/2/'...
  3. L

    Windows 11 & Linux Mint 21.3, dual boot installation, 2x hard drive, system encryption

    Hello community, I need some help. I want more data protection and would therefore like to use Linux Mint as well. So, I want to do the following: equip my notebook with two operating systems and encrypt the system. I have two different hard drives, one of which will have/has Windows 11 and...
  4. B

    I have no clue on where anything ended up. Or how to fix it.

    So, I have a Dell Inspiron 3181 chromebook (ya ya, I know, limited hw and all) but I had wanted to tinker around and completely erase the proprietary emmc storage and flash either xubuntu or a base kali dist, I had xubuntu running love on a usb flash, and I (before I wiped the emmc, dd'd...
  5. F

    How do I proceed to dual boot Zorin OS with these settings?

    Conditions: 1. Secure Boot Enabled ✅ 2. Windows 11 installed on C (128 Gb SSD). 3. Wanting to dual boot Zorin on G (50 Gb partition on 1 Tb HDD). Questions: 4. Do I need to turn Secure Boot off? 5. If yes, can I turn it back after dual booting Zorin? 6. Do I configure Secure...
  6. F

    System Freezes on ASUS TUF 506 Laptop with Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

    I am experiencing a critical system stability issue on Ubuntu that does not occur on Windows 10 or previous Ubuntu versions (21.04): Hardware Details: Laptop Model: ASUS TUF 506 Operating Systems: Dual-boot Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and Windows 10 Kernel Version: 6.8.0-50-generic 1. System...
  7. D

    An Accidental Discovery

    So I had heard (on a totally different forum) that there are changes made to some of the core of Steam games so if you install them under Windows....you cannot play them under Steam. With a good amount of work I got a Linux partition for games loaded up and accessible. But when I ran Steam, it...
  8. P

    No audio on Asus UX5304VA across multiple distros and audio devices

    Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to linux but I have some experience, and I've been trying to make this work for the past 3 days. I am on a dual boot setup with MX linux and win11 right now. The problem is, my computer refuses to make any sound come out of it when running Linux (win11 still works)...
  9. S

    Solved GRUB does not work in Kali

    Here is my case - i have a dual boot system with Windows on my nvme and Kali on my other ssd. When i set up Kali and tried to boot it, it went straight to grub rescue. I then followed countless internet tutotials - booting from a live usb, reinstalling GRUB, trying to fix the System error 17...
  10. L

    How can I unmount my windows partitions from linux in a dualboot?

    I want to make it so that linux doesn't have any access to my windows partitions.
  11. GoonMaster

    Solved GRUB and os-prober do not see Windows 10 on a different drive

    setup: -im on a lenovo legion 5 with two nvme drives with arch on one and windows on the other i reinstalled arch onto my second nvme after having issues with windows overriding the bootloader and now i can't access my windows drive. loading up the boot menu just shows me the drive i installed...
  12. GoonMaster

    Solved primary linux drive stopped showing up in boot menu

    my primary nvme drive with arch installed stopped showing up in the bios boot menu after installing windows onto my second nvme. i can still view both drives on the windows disk management thing but i can't boot back into my main drive to update grub. i tried loading up an arch iso and using...
  13. GoonMaster

    primary linux drive stopped showing up after installing windows on secondary nvme

    my primary nvme drive with arch installed stopped showing up in the bios boot menu after installing windows onto my second nvme. i can still view both drives on the windows disk management thing but i can't boot back into my main drive to update grub. i tried loading up an arch iso and using...
  14. W

    Solved Advice on choice of Linux for Lenovo laptop

    Good day all My first post so i shall try and do things correctly. Background I have been using linux for many years and although I would not put myself in the "Expert" category, I am able to find my way around linux. Current usage I have a few VPS servers based on Ubunto 20.04 and 22.04...
  15. K

    Kali linux Dual booting problem with grub

    Why I can't install GRUB. When installing KaliLinux (GNU GRUB v 2.06-4) as dual boot on a DELL 17, 7000 series laptop with UEFI bios after installing about 60% of GRUB, the process stops and I have to switch off the computer . There is no error information. I have tried many times and when the...
  16. M

    Hardware help - Apologies if wrong location

    Hi, I have been using Linux for a while but I am not super proficient in troubleshooting and I'm in need of some help. I apologise if this is in the wrong location - I suspect the issue is hardware related but I've tried everything I can think of and I still can't resolve it. I have tried to...
  17. R

    How to Install Linux Distro on External HDD without the GRUB Boot Menu?

    Greetings, fellow Linux enthusiasts! I am in the process of installing a Linux distro on my external hard drive. I have already installed it and set up the partitions for boot, swap, and root in a virtual machine. Now, my goal is to boot directly into the Linux distro installed on my external...
  18. chips

    After installing Linux Mint, the boot menu does not appear and I cannot boot the Windows/Linux Mint.

    hello first of all, I would like to say that I am very sad and disappointed because I installed linux. After installing Linux Mint, it asked me to restart, and then the boot menu did not appear, only a screen called BOOT MENU. Even though I select all of them one by one, nothing changes, I can...
  19. A

    Returning possibility to run Debian after installing Bliss OS

    Hello everyone! I had Debian(bios-boot) on disk. Then I installed Bliss OS. After this, I lost possibility to run Debian(there is no option to run it in grub). Is it possible to add option to grub to run Debian?
  20. K

    An unsolved problem with Neptune installation (double boot Windows 10)

    Hi everyone, I've decided to write here because I couldn't find the answer to my problem anywhere else on the web. I managed to create a bootable USB with an ISO file of Neptune 7.0 distro. After first attempts, I was unable to boot into Neptune Live. The solution that I found was changing the...
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