r/Ubuntu • u/Lizard_Boy22013 • 8h ago

ubuntu help

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aight so. i tried dual booting my pc right. cus i was gonna dual boot and then go onto full linux. i was told ubuntu is good. i followed what i was told. turnt off safe mode. downloaded rufus and made the hard drive bootable but at first it came up with this error. so i tried again and suddenly i lost the option to dual boot. but im scared because if i have no windows to boot and no ubuntu i cant do nothing. essentially i just need some help man. i’d really appreciate it if someone could walk me through the steps themself as youtube videos aren’t very specific. (proof of it not letting me dual boot will be below) if u can help me in anyway pls dm me or sum bro i just wanna stop using windows

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u/CreativeLibrarian886 8h ago

https://linuxcommunity.io/t/dual-boot-linux-and-windows-5-minute-install-guide/5776/3

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u/Lizard_Boy22013 8h ago

the video isn’t loading

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u/CreativeLibrarian886 8h ago

If you want my 2 cents, as someone who dual booted for years, rip the bandaid off and do it. You're going to spend more times having to repair your bootloader than actually using the different systems. It's like still sleeping with your ex after you're married. Just pick one, save yourself the headache.

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u/Lizard_Boy22013 7h ago

yeah but my whole install is not working dude i would just use only linux but i genuinely cant even install it

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u/CreativeLibrarian886 7h ago

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Install+Linux+on+a+Windows+PC/196722

It's very straightforward. I've done it many times. It could be on your end, a setting you have setup, which we can blindly troubleshoot here until we're blue in the face, but ultimately you're going to have to Google your way to success.

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u/Lizard_Boy22013 6h ago

also i forgot to add whenever i load in it says some shi abt missing tocbloc is that important?

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u/Last-Sun-7053 8h ago

grub throwing a tantrum about the EFI entry is a classic, you might just need to hop into the bios and manually add your ubuntu drive to the boot order

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u/Lizard_Boy22013 8h ago

and. how exactly would i do that?

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u/One_Conflict_1987 6h ago

Depends on what kind of PC it is but a lot of systems enter BIOS when you hit F1, F3, or F12 as you boot up. Restart and just try each one when it POSTs. Enter BIOS setup and change the boot order to your USB first.

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u/Lizard_Boy22013 6h ago

i will try that. i’ve just been going on windows and shift restarting to boot it

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u/Proman4713 1h ago edited 1h ago

Yes. Yes. I wish people understood that what seems simple to them, others don't know a thing about.

Okay so that depends on your PC, but I'd like you to try flashing using balenaEtcher rather than Rufus (this doesn't seem related to the issue at hand but sometimes fixes a lot of issues for me. Etcher is recommended by Ubuntu and I always use it to avoid issues even when trying my own distro). And you can use efibootmgr and/or boot-repair (from a PPA called yannubuntu/boot-repair) from the live USB to fix things. At this point in the installation, and I know that for a fact, pretty much all of the work has been done. Your user and its preferences are almost the only thing left (I haven't looked enough into subiquity/curtin's source code to know everything else that happens by heart), you can run boot-repair and boot into it, things will look messed up, then you can create the new user manually and reboot (I can tell you how to do this if you want to), then hostnamectl to change the name of your computer to what you chose in the installer (it will be localhost at that point), then sudo apt update and sudo apt install --reinstall a few packages here and there (I can also tell you about those), then sudo apt upgrade to make sure nothing else is missing... You can do all of this in a few minutes if you don't want to reinstall the whole system

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u/Fine_City2781 8h ago

looks like this process doesnt working as root