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Create swap partition
This answer is after the discussion in chat
Here you have to do two things ,
1 . Deleting the /swapspace file created using AU question.
2 . Creating swap in unallocated space.
1 . Open terminal ...
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How much space does elementary OS need in dualboot?
The official installation guide recommends at least 15 GB free space and the installer requires 6.4 GB. The base operating system itself won't take much more space (in fact it most likely takes less ...
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Can't do dualboot with Windows 10, options missing
You're booting elementary OS in BIOS/MBR/Legacy mode, which allows only up to 4 primary partitions per disk drive. Booting in EFI/UEFI will allow you to install both OSes in UEFI mode, but you need to ...
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Elementary OS Juno and Windows 10 dualboot time is wrong. RTC time is not changing to local
Please execute this in your terminal,
timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock
Do not worry if you see a warning after running timedatectl.
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How to enable dual boot menu?
If your computer boots straight to Freya:
Run:
sudo update-grub
sudo reboot
If not solved,
Open terminal and run following commands:
sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/...
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Edit shutdown menu? Add custom entry?
First off, grub supports rebooting in to a specific OS, so you might want to use that instead. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43196/how-can-i-tell-grub-i-want-to-reboot-into-windows-...
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Install elementary OS in dual boot with 'something else' option
Note : This can also be used to reinstall elementary OS. To reinstall skip the partition steps.
Partitoning :
Before using something else option allocate space to install elementary OS.
Open Gparted ...
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How to repair elementary OS?
It seems like you unistalled parts of your desktop.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall elementary-desktop should do the trick.
BTW you can install chromium from the official repositories.
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How to get HP laptop to boot rEFInd
I recommend that you first disable automatic boot repair from a console in Windows:
bcdedit /set {current} recoveryenabled No
Try now if that has solved your problem. If not, you may have to ...
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Black screen at boot [SOLVED]
Everything works again! No need to reinstall!
I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 to boot into tty1 and the $DISPLAY environment variable was empty.
So redefined the DISPLAY variable using export DISPLAY=:0.0 and ...
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Entering elementary OS directly
If you want to dualboot elementary and Windows you'll have to see the grub menu every time you turn your pc on.
However, if you barely use one of those operating systems, you could hide the grub menu ...
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What should be done with boot partition for updated installation of elementary OS Odin
There are few things to know here. The default Windows EFI partition of 100MB is too small for Windows and Elementary - Elementary will not be able to install on it. You need to create a second EFI ...
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Dual Boot Windows 10 with elementary OS
Read this post here:
install windows after installing ubuntu
This post has good explained answers on how to solve your problem. These answers will also work for elementary as both uses GRUB.
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Install elementary OS alongside Windows - Got problems
There's many solutions for this on the web, I used another one not listed here, that's why my answer. This is the workaroud I used:
Install boot-repair
Go to Advanced options
Look for 'purge grub' ...
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Installing elementary OS alongside Windows 10
Ok so this got it working for me.
In the BIOS I kept only Launch CMS enabled (OpROM disabled).
Boot menu now has "Windows Boot Manager", the hard drive and the DVD drive.
With this combination I ...
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GRUB not showing after installing Elementary OS alongside Windows 10
Since the previous method not solved, this is the possible solution:
Steps:
Boot into windows and open command prompt as administrator, and run the command to disable hibernation
powercfg /h off
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Install alongside windows 10 UEFI
You should be able to just click "Install alongside Windows", without the need for boot repair or any other modification. It's what I did on my most recent installation.
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"unable to install grub in /dev/sda. This is a fatal error."
This always works for me :-
1. download & create liveimage of supergrub iso.
2. boot super grub.
3. locate bootable OS on the pc. ( if more than one OS on the PC)
4. boot you preferred OS.
5. ...
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How to re-install windows without breaking my eOS
The Windows installation process generally does mess with Grub, the Linux bootloader. One way to prevent such issues is to install Windows in a virtual machine such as VirtualBox.
This answer has ...
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Can I have on my mac Sierra computer both runing - mac sierra and elementary?
Yes, of course :)
Just download elementary and make it bootable on USB or CD.
Then boot it and click install.
Following the instructions, you'll come to step where you can decide if you want to erase ...
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Partition Issue (Using unallocated space)- GParted
You can't change the partition you're currently using.
Try resizing the partition using a live USB.
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Installation to USB put grub on my hard disk and changed boot parameters
Boot into elementary and open the terminal and type :
sudo software-properties-gtk -e universe && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mbr
sudo install-mbr /dev/sdX
Replace sdX with the ...
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elementary OS not starting from GRUB
Can you start the system while holding down shift. Select your kernel and press e. Then remove quiet splash from the kernel parameters. This will allow you to see the boot output.
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elementary OS not recognized by Grub2
This happens when UEFI CSM is enabled in UEFI firmware settings and causes GRUB2 to be installed to the MBR.
First enter UEFI firmware settings by holding down shift while clicking restart in Windows
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elementary OS not recognized by Grub2
Maybe you had use and old freya ISO version? In 0.3 and 0.3.1 there were errors with grub-efi installation.
I will to assume you have create a 350mb efi boot partition on install of elementary, if ...
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Options for a graphical EFI boot loader?
rEFInd is the way to go. I use rEFInd on my UEFI laptop and I have not experienced any problems.
It is also highly customizable and has lots of themes to choose from and is actively developed by Rod ...
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Can't access Windows 10 after dual boot
ok I've done boot-repair from a live-usb and now in the grub menu i've these options to choose.
What do i have to do in order to access to Windows?
Also i think i've forgotten to disable Secure Boot ...
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Want to dual boot elementary OS with Linux Mint. Need some guidance and questions answered
I tend to use gparted and set my drive up like this.
Partition 1, ext4, Linux Mint (100gb)
Partition 2, ext4, Elementary OS (100gb)
Partition 3, NTFS, Shared Data (100gb)
Partition 4, Swap (...
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Tried to Dualboot W10/Elementary. Greeted by a Grub command screen. What do I do?
Boot using your live CD. Then you need to run these 3 commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
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