I installed Windows 7, which ate Ubuntu's boot file. When starting up the computer, it now goes straight to Windows, without giving me the option of booting Ubuntu.
How can I get Ubuntu back?
yes, @aking1012, actually i am doing this right now, thanks :)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ for i in /sys /proc /run /dev; do sudo mount --bind "$i" "/mnt$i"; done mount: mount point /mnt/sys does not exist mount: mount point /mnt/proc does not exist mount: mount point /mnt/run does not exist mount: mount point /mnt/dev does not exist
There is really no need for a separate xfce4 tag, since virtually any question about xfce in Ubuntu will pertain to major version 4. Previous versions are not currently supported in Ubuntu. (They use GTK+ 1!) We might get a question about an earlier version on extremely rare occasion, but I don't...
@hey Wait a minute. Did you just try to chroot into /dev/sda4? Isn't that the extended partition itself, rather than the Ubuntu partition? Isn't your / partition /dev/sda5?
Speaking of which. @hey, are you making sure to run grub-install /dev/sda and not something like grub-install /dev/sda5? It needs to not have a number at the end.
@hey No problem. I'm assuming you mean for the earlier help though...as for this latest part it's been mostly @aking1012 and @RolandTaylor helping.
I'm glad it's working!
BTW, now that it is.... I'm guessing you removed Windows 7 and reinstalled because it was broken somehow. But if not, you should know that you can dynamically shrink Windows too (rather than removing Windows, expanding Ubuntu, and reinstalling Windows). Both Windows and Ubuntu system partitions can be dynamically resized. Windows Vista and later (including corresponding Server versions) even have the ability to resize built into the Disk Management MMC snap-in (diskmgmt.msc).
It's not as easy as with Ubuntu, as to shrink NTFS partitions containing an installed Windows system, sometimes you have to disable virtual memory paging (i.e., swap) and hibernation (as the files used for that are "immovable"). You can re-enable them after shrinking if you had to disable them.
that and boson router simulator had to be marked as immovable for defrag because it stored its activation information in slack space, but now i'm digressing in to companies that spend more on drm than development
I installed Windows 7, which ate Ubuntu's boot file. When starting up the computer, it now goes straight to Windows, without giving me the option of booting Ubuntu.
How can I get Ubuntu back?
@aking1012 I think the directories will always be there and you never have to mkdir them. (Theoretically you might have to, in that the system could happen to also be broken in that particular way.) Wasn't it the wrong device name (/dev/sda2 originally, then /dev/sda4) that resulted in those errors?
I know this has been asked to death, but I can't get it to work. I'm trying to have multiple wallpapers and I've done the whole Compiz Wallpaper plugin set the images and then use Advance Settings to Have File Manager Handle The Destop. And I still only get the 1 wallpaper I have set in system pr...
you could start with Nirmik's question about making multiple wallpapers work with lightdm. evidently he knows of a package to make multiple wallpapers work.
fix a problem with ubuntu...that's always time consuming. for instance earlier today i found a working link for the source to the doom3 engine since the old id ftp/torrent is down
@msPeachy i'll see if i can replicate it. what root-level dir are you trying in?
i find this mildly upsetting since cepstral et al catered to festival as an abstraction layer for cooler voices, but oh well. there's still their swift binary
@GevorgHindoyan btw i like the wallrunnnig in red-eclipse, but it still feels quake-y and the lack of fall realism turns me off
@AnwarShah I know that ia32-libs is available in every recent (since 10.04 at least) Ubuntu release, and the only way it gives you that no-candidate error if you try to install via apt-get is if (a) you're on 32-bit (b) you're on 64-bit and you either never updated your repos
I just copied a folder then manually changed each entry to match the security of the original... Is there a cp switch that copies the security as well? (I used cp -R /folder /new-folder)
sorry... my command kept the correct chmod permissions... looking for one that keeps the correct groups
O YEAH!!!! Steam for Linux! :) http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2012/07/17/valve-steam-linux/1?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bit-tech%2Fall+%28bit-tech.net+feed%29
o/ @ObsessiveFOSS I saw your note about soundcard ins/outs in u;traverse. i think they're an underutilized way to use $10 USB audio cards as voltage control/listening
really hoping this is right place to ask this question seeing that my host is a Windows 7 machine. I have 3 Ubuntu Server 12.04 VMs set up through VirtualBox 4.1.18, and envisage the following usage:
LAMP - for Drupal, Moodle and other arbitrary PHP test applications (additionally a few of the ...
I am using 12.04. It's only been installed for a few weeks, and the computer is new too. Yet my 100 GB partition is already full, though nothing is installed, no videos, no images, nothing that would account for 100GB anyway.
One of the problems seems to be coming from /var/log/kernel.log, which...
you are not that OP ... the Q was only filed a couple of hours ago. Stuff like this can take a few days to get an answer. I presume you have tried an older/newer kernel?
I mean I don't want to start testing all kernels until I find a solution, that may or may not solve my issue just because I don't see the symptoms anymore
I would like a real solution rather than getting around it, not knowing if the issue is still there or not
if that makes sense...
and also, I'm too much of a newbie to do things like that
I just want to use my computer, not mess with its internals
this one smells like a bug - probably should file a new launchpad report. In the interim we can suggest - newer/older kernels - or just dont use an encrypted home partition. Alternatively - set up a regular cron job that rolls the logs around and deletes.
you just said your problem was solved through updates. you could install future kernels (through ppas) but if you're asking why do i have to do this, don't do it
for example i know quantal kernels are available via ppa for precise
sorry, i generally do a decent job of understanding non-native speakers, but if i don't follow the chain of events there is little i can do...and i do suspect it's a bug as foss suggested
@aking1012 What I meant was that I don't want to start testing all kernels until I find a solution, because I don't know if any version of a kernel will or will not solve my issue. AND (assuming I did try all these kernels versions, which I have no intention of, giving my level, the time it would take, and given that I don't know in advance if it will even work) I would have no way of knowing if it just solved the issue or if the issue is still there but just harder to see because some of the symptoms disappeared.
it sounds more like complaining about an update that hasn't been applied yet now. i understand what you said exactly, but i'm commenting on the implication of the statement and how it would make oss people feel
i just want it to work for me is not the oss way. i just want it to work for everyone is. just my opinion.
i think i've said what i have to say on this one. you seem to have some really corner case issues. i went to the trouble of setting up clean VMs to troubleshoot your VNC/RDP one and you swear it doesn't work which speaks to incomplete details. you can't ask question withholding data and expect other people to solve them for you. reference:
I have an existing ssh connection between my computer (A:12.04) and a remote computer (B:10.04) (from A I just type ssh B). I have root access on both. Both use ubuntu desktop edition. I am struggling to set up a remote desktop solution. After a lot of different software and tries, the closest I ...
@bob yours and TimZei account use a different email address - why? - login to TimZei and make it the same email address as your existing "Bob" AskUbuntu account and I'll merge the two together.
@bob if its a bug - not alot we can do here on askubuntu. File a new report. I've given you a few options above. If you dont feel comfortable trying them - just star the question - maybe an answer or two will appear in the next few days that you can then try out.
Situation
Have 2 GPU pciX
one was added recently
Wanted to have seperate semi-independent X-server (seperate 3D rendering)
What was broken
After putting in new card and booting, changing to “seperate X-Server” gnome-shell failed to load.
It then reverted to “classic and started wierdly duplica...
I installed Windows 7, which ate Ubuntu's boot file. When starting up the computer, it now goes straight to Windows, without giving me the option of booting Ubuntu.
How can I get Ubuntu back?
really hoping this is right place to ask this question seeing that my host is a Windows 7 machine. I have 3 Ubuntu Server 12.04 VMs set up through VirtualBox 4.1.18, and envisage the following usage:
LAMP - for Drupal, Moodle and other arbitrary PHP test applications (additionally a few of the ...
For example I provide chat logs:
http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/5394002#5394002
Situation
Have 2 GPU pciX
one was added recently
Wanted to have seperate semi-independent X-server (seperate 3D rendering)
What was broken
After putting in new card and booting, changing to “seperate X-Server” gnome-shell failed to load.
It then reverted to “classic and started wierdly duplica...
