Ubuntu freezes before starting up (boot stops on black screen - again!)
Hello! I've spent the entire morning trying to solve this: when Ubuntu 12.04 should boot, instead, it goes to a black screen, after showing Ubuntu logo. (I know there's a lot of questions about it, but...
View ArticleInstall Ubuntu on Galaxy 10
We'd like to get a tablet (maybe a Galaxy) and want to put Ubuntu on it. Or can a tablet running "android" have android removed and replaced entirely with Ubuntu? Or, can android be completely isolated...
View Article[ubuntu] How to triple boot Windows 8, XP, and ubuntu?
Before anyone asks, I've already searched the forums and I've researched this issue elsewhere, so I would appreciate it if everyone could simply answer my questions and help me figure this all out...
View Articleubuntu 12.04LTS Slow Login
I have suffered from the slow login on ubuntu 12.04LTS and I'm not sure what I did or installed that made it. Here I have attached the bootchart and dmesg log. The fact is that I have installed SSD and...
View ArticleCan't see the grub menu - Dual boot Win8.1 and Ubuntu 13.04
I took my Toshiba laptop back and got a Samsung ATIV Book 4. I repartioned the drive using Windows disk utility and made a 300 G home for Ubuntu. Did the install from my USB key and it put it on my new...
View ArticleNo bootable device (Triple Boot)
Hello everyone, I hope you had great holidays :-) I had a working Dualboot of Windows 8 and Mac Mountain Lion (Hackintosh) on my HP Pavilion DV6. Then I installed Ubuntu 13.10 and everything worked,...
View Article[ubuntu] Bluetooth not working in 13.10 64-bit
I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit on Acer E1-530 laptop. After ethernet not working, this is second things i have discovered. Bluetooth does neither detect or gets discovered from any hardware :(...
View Article[ubuntu] Ubuntu not installing due to LDM?
I used a HP t5720 thin client and successfully installed Ubuntu 12 on the system. Ubuntu 13 will not install, since a video test loops for ever. I think that it may be caused by the "LightDM Display...
View ArticleLubuntu: 'Gave up waiting for root device'
Hello. I'm a new Linux user and have an old Acer Apsire PC with Windows 7 with a Celeron processor that is too slow to really be useful. I decided to try Lubuntu on it, and when I run it off of the...
View ArticleBoot problem with Win8 + Ubuntu after using easyBCD
Hi, can you help me to restore my boot? the problem is this... Once I had 4 partitions on my HD. 1. reserved by system 2. Files NTFS (120 GB) 3. Ubuntu EXT3 (120 GB) 4. Windows NTFS (250 GB) and my...
View Articleacer s7 (windows 8 problems.. i think?..)
so I was able to get into linux mint for half a second on this laptop and tried to install but it ended up just deleting windows 8 and not installing anything so I switched my usb over to a fresh copy...
View ArticleUninstall Ubuntu on UEFI computer
Hi, I am new here, but I need help. Recently my HDD was corrupted, so I bought a new one with GPT disk. I installed there Windows 8.1 64bit. (of course with UEFI) I am considering about installing...
View ArticleGrub does not show up in dual boot Win 8.1 and ubuntu 13.10
First, happy new year to all I am stuck in front of a dual boot issue and I have no clue how to progress so I am coming here to see if someone can help me. For the first time, I built up a PC that...
View Article[ubuntu] Which updates to do for Ubuntu 12.10
Hi, i have posted on here before about problems regarding internet connection. Which i managed to resolve using wireless connection, than managed to get wired connection. After doing updates on ubuntu...
View Article[SOLVED] LVM_2 member
Hi, Doing a new installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64x. I do the partitioning myself, and asign a seperate partition for /boot with ext2 fs. When I try to reboot, grub stalls with error "Bad arch elf...
View Article[ubuntu] Ubuntu on Lenovo Ideapad Z500
Hello guys! I need to consult you before I install Ubuntu 12.04 64bit LTS on a laptop Lenovo Ideapad Z500, It is Intel i5, ram 6G, OS DOS. This specifications as it's in the box but when I got it it...
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[PPC] G5 Xserve will not boot off cd
I have been trying to boot two G5 Apple Xserves PPC for the last few weeks. Right now I have a optical drive from a pc running inside the hot swap drive bay. I have tried booting disks(4.3gib dvds) for...
View Article[kubuntu] how to install kubuntu on uefi/bios laptop
Hi all I want to install kubuntu, but I don't know how to handle it. I'm totally new at linux. I am worried about UEFI, some time ago I tried to install arch alone and it was fail. My hdd has 500 GB...
View ArticleIs it possible to reinstall Vista without affecting boot loader?
Whilst I am aware this forum is primarily for help with Ubuntu issues and some may say that questions of how to reinstall Windows should be directed elsewhere, I am posting here as I feel my particular...
View ArticleLVM Encrypted question
I have installed from USB to my 160GB HDD, Kubuntu 13.10, choosing the 'Guided LVM Encrypted' option. Everything goes perfect until I have to enter the passphrase after reboot. It simply is not...
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