Hey, I am having some problems in regards to dual-booting Ubuntu 13.10 and windows 8.1. If anybody could provide some help that would be fantastic. I have already posted it in the AskUbuntu forums but there has been no help as of yet. Original post.
Here is my situation, I am trying to dual boot Ubuntu 13.10 with Windows 8.1 on my laptop. I have managed to install Ubuntu and get the GRUB menu as the primary boot selector. However when I try to boot into Ubuntu it boots into low graphics mode and I cannot get past that. When it asks me to wait while the display restarts and I press okay the mouse cursor blinks and it halts there.
During the installation I could not ever enter live-CD mode and had to boot straight into install Ubuntu mode. Also, I had to boot with a nomodeset option to be able to install Ubuntu. It would present me with a white screen else (and before anybody asks, I have tried booting with the nomodeset enabled).
I am not connected to a wi-fi network in Ubuntu so I can't update my drivers to work with it. I am thinking to use a boot-repair disk to see if that helps (the guide I have followed to dual boot said to boot into live-CD mode to perform the boot repair, but as I said I have never been able to access live-CD mode).
My laptop is a Packard Bell Easynote TE69KB. The processor is an AMD A Series A4-5000, Quad-Core 1.5GHz. It comes with 4GB of RAM, the graphics processor is an AMD Radeon HD 8330. Windows fast start-up and secure boot are disabled.
EDIT: I have tried using the boot-repair disk but it seems to bypass that (although I have verified that the CD drive is the first place to load from in the BIOS).
That's an error type screen I keep getting too.
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Does anyone here know if it's possilbe to do a full clean install of the free Windows XP Mode that you can get with the Windows 7 Virtual machine?
I do know it's possilbe to convert a .vhd into a .iso file which can be burned to disk but i can't find anything on google that would help me with this.
Any help would be appreciated.
If I understand correctly you want to V2P (virtual 2 physical).
I wonder if since Windows 7 bootloader allows you to boot vhd file's if you can boot the Windows xp mode vhd.
Also I think clonezilla will allow you to dd the vhd to a physical disk.
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converting a vhd to ISO? that's uh not going to work buddy.
i have no idea hwat you're trying to do, but based on experiance drop xp mode, use vpc2007, virtualbox or vmware. vmware can physically access drives, which is..extremely handy.
Yup, that's exactly what i want to do, is to make the .vhd to physical so i can full install it at boot then dual boot windows 7 and windows XP without the need of useing Virtual PC all the time when i want to use XP.
It should be possible in everyway and i also have a genuine key for Windows XP Mode that come with the download from microsoft.
it isnt going to work. repartition your drive and use a real xp.
xp doesnt like being swapped between hardware configs. specially with whatever insane method win7 uses to boot to vhd files.
so i no its naughty but if you have a legit key then just download xp, with a built in key, then use jellybean to activate your legit key, prob get flamed for that info but fine if u are telling the truth
I'm an experienced computer user in Windows and (X)Ubuntu, but some things I don't know I search online... but this problem I get only gets me somewhat upset by "Search Overload" (See some United States commercials).
## My computer setup ##
OS: dual-boot Windows XP; Xubuntu 10.04 LTS
Boot Loader: grub
In the partitions:
- Windows XP
- Xubuntu 10.04 LTS
- swap
- factory OEM partition
I need to reinstall Windows completely. I can either...
1. get that ISO of "The Windows 9x Project" burnt (I have an XP upgrade version),
2. borrow my friends OEM disk (I DO have a legit XP CD but it is only an Upgrade version ), or
3. try to get that special partition to install EXACTLY the way I want it to (most likely impossible)
Also, I've been trying to reinstall the grub bootloader (which originaly comes with my Xubuntu disk) manually, but it has been unsuccessful so far.
This will also be able to help me in case a Windows program rewrites the MBR (or I need to do this task again).
What I don't want to do unless it is the only possible way:
- Reinstall Xubuntu 10.04 LTS (plus install all of those updates and change Firefox... again!!!)
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Current Status:
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Will try to use the Windows 9x Project .iso and use my legit XP upgrade CD+key
- will take a lot of time to accomplish, IF successful
- I hope that Windows ME will work with my system -_-'
"I'm an experienced computer user in Windows and (X)Ubuntu"
I lol'd a little.
I don't get what you're asking for. Advice on loading grub? Telling you that XP needs to die as an outdated OS? Ubuntu should be illegal under computer misuse legislation?
You state your current progress and methods to get where you're going, there is no "where now?"question to your post.
Have you considered virtualisation as an alternative to your lack of understanding dealing? This way you can still have the "I'm cool I run ubuntu", without having to try and understand it.
For the record, ubuntu is an abomination and should never have been made. Debian is good, don't mess with perfection.
If this reply succeeds in posting, lock this post due to inactivity (my 100G HDD is too small for dual-booting WinXP & Xubuntu, imo)
EDIT: I totally know Ubuntu sucks (one example: poorly made packages require only one type of sound interface -- read: pulseaudio)
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So.... I have a crappy Sony VAIO laptop and I installed windows 8 release preview on it. It worked fine for about a day then I wanted Ubuntu back so I installed the windows version thinking I would dual boot. Yeah right. Now my computer will not go into anything but the windows recovery thing. If I go to "use a different OS" I have 2 windows 8s both on the same volume (volume 3). It won't automatic repair (says that it couldn't fix my computer and I'm missing SrtTrail.txt) and it will not refresh (says that it can't refresh and no changes were made). I created recovery media from a desktop computer with windows 8 release preview and my computer doesnt even recognize the flash drive in "reset your PC". I need help as I am an android developer and I NEED Ubuntu back. Thank you.
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BiteBlaze said:
So.... I have a crappy Sony VAIO laptop and I installed windows 8 release preview on it. It worked fine for about a day then I wanted Ubuntu back so I installed the windows version thinking I would dual boot. Yeah right. Now my computer will not go into anything but the windows recovery thing. If I go to "use a different OS" I have 2 windows 8s both on the same volume (volume 3). It won't automatic repair (says that it couldn't fix my computer and I'm missing SrtTrail.txt) and it will not refresh (says that it can't refresh and no changes were made). I created recovery media from a desktop computer with windows 8 release preview and my computer doesnt even recognize the flash drive in "reset your PC". I need help as I am an android developer and I NEED Ubuntu back. Thank you.
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Get the ubuntu disk, pop it in, boot from CD, start new install, format the whole hard drive, wait for Ubuntu to install.
jaszek said:
Get the ubuntu disk, pop it in, boot from CD, start new install, format the whole hard drive, wait for Ubuntu to install.
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Back up info first though...
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The problem with windows8 is it installs its on bootloader and once you delete windows 8 from that partition the bootloader gets confused and still thinks windows 8 is the primary os.
You want to download easyBCD to delete windows 8 from the boot menu this will allow you to select the os originally installed.
So basically I am an Idiot and I messed up my install of Ubuntu 12.04 that i had dual booted with Windows 8.1. I tried to update to 13.04 and That's what messed it up at first. It wouldn't let me boot into Ubuntu anymore. Every time I chose Ubuntu it would go to a black screen and that's it. Entered the recovery a few times and attempted repair but to no avail. So I booted into windows. Got Ubuntu 13.04 iso and made a bootable DVD.
Now here is where I am an idiot. For some reason I thought I should just delete all of the partitions Ubuntu was on so I could start fresh. So I did so and rebooted. Instead of booting into my DVD I got the grub rescue command line. And that's all I can get now. Won't let me go into bios or boot menu, so I have no way to set it to boot from disc drive in order to boot from either my boot-repair disc or Ubuntu DVD. So I have absolutely no idea what to do now. I'm usually pretty good at fixing PC's but this one is a bit above my pay grade. No
Any ideas ?
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So basically I am an Idiot and I messed up my install of Ubuntu 12.04 that i had dual booted with Windows 8.1. I tried to update to 13.04 and That's what messed it up at first. It wouldn't let me boot into Ubuntu anymore. Every time I chose Ubuntu it would go to a black screen and that's it. Entered the recovery a few times and attempted repair but to no avail. So I booted into windows. Got Ubuntu 13.04 iso and made a bootable DVD.
Now here is where I am an idiot. For some reason I thought I should just delete all of the partitions Ubuntu was on so I could start fresh. So I did so and rebooted. Instead of booting into my DVD I got the grub rescue command line. And that's all I can get now. Won't let me go into bios or boot menu, so I have no way to set it to boot from disc drive in order to boot from either my boot-repair disc or Ubuntu DVD. So I have absolutely no idea what to do now. I'm usually pretty good at fixing PC's but this one is a bit above my pay grade. No
Any ideas ?
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Oooh, bro, got that too. U have to do a remap of HDD. If it won't help (is in my case), I think ur HDD is done
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Hmm, no BIOS? What kind of computer is it? In most machines theres some key that when you press it during POST it should show you the boot menu. On my laptop its Esc, on some mobos it's F8 or F10 or so...
Then again if your pc has EFI or something like that, you might've deleted some partition related to that... but i don't know very much about EFI and such. i thought (and hope) that disk based BIOS setup systems are a ting in the past, i remember one Compaq which had at least part of the setup on HD...
The grub rescue has a command line, if you feel up to learning it you might just be able to make it boot
this is tricky I am on linux mint and after installaling the mint the machine simply do not allow me to enter the Bios menu option from cmos section no matter f1 or f11 of f10 or whatever combination of keys you may suggest. You can a get into Cmos by pressing the recovery button when you restart you computer but then you cannot access the menu.
The lenevo g580 fails to recognize windows geneuine software cd.dvd with 8.1 or usb media with window 7/8/8.1. while the same works ok with other device. The laptop only recognize the software it is installed on linux mint 17 and ubantu 1404 but not the windows 8 created on same time.
I have updated the bios but it happened later. I do not have a faulty keyboard or mousepad I have checked it out. lenevo g580 model, model 20157 4gb of RAM and intel 4000 graphic card.
Since I am unable to use windows I cannot flash the bios file which is in exe format not recognized by linux. I got ISO format on lenevo but that is for other device. Wine software cannot work how should it be done. any ideas. I do not want change the motherboard when every thing else is working fine.