Failed Dual Boot Installation

I tried to install Linux (Stormy) on to my external hard drive to dual boot for engineering/programming purposes. I did not delete or write over anything on my hard drive, it was all installed onto the external. The Linux installation failed and now the computer won't boot OSX at all. I tried to put the installation disk in (for the utilities, not to write over all my stuff) and it finds the hard drive, but it won't let me look at it or do anything with it. I would really like to be able to either restore to what I had before the failed installation or just get back my documents and pictures even if I have to reinstall most of my programs. What do I need to do?
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4) Not 100% sure on the OS version as I can't boot it to check

Did you use bootcamp? If so unless you specifically chose to install Linux on the internal drive, your OS X installation should be completely safe. Also when you say Linux installation failed - when and where exactly? What was the error message if any? (Like during Bootloader install for example?)
Can you post a screen shot of what the Disk Utility says about both your drives (internal and external)? That way we will be able to tell if you (by mistake) installed Linux on your internal drive and/or what the partition map looks like on the internal drive.

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files to a usb drive and boot from that...no luck.
any help would be appreciated. thank you

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You need to make the dvd boot. When you try to boot from the dvd or USB what happens? Have you changed the boot order to make the DVD/USB first?
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I have windows 7 installed on my computer, i have created some un partitioned space to install OELR5 64 bit, i have created installation CDs, but I cannot run setup from within windows 7, however if I reboot system installation starts. I doubt installing this way may make windows 7 nuaccessible? What should I do to keep windows intact and install OEL as well.
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How do you uninstall Windows 10 Dual Boot?

Hello,
I am running a dual boot installation of Winodws 8.1 and 10 Techical Preview, and I like to know how do you uninstall the Windows 10 from the dual boot scheme? I think I've uninstalled previous beta versions of windows 8 by erasing the partition it
was installed into and that was it. Is this the correct way to remove window 10 too? Just asking, since the graphical version of the OS boot screen is present in this dual boot installation, does that change anything.

Hello,
I am running a dual boot installation of Winodws 8.1 and 10 Techical Preview, and I like to know how do you uninstall the Windows 10 from the dual boot scheme? I think I've uninstalled previous beta versions of windows 8 by erasing the partition it
was installed into and that was it. Is this the correct way to remove window 10 too? Just asking, since the graphical version of the OS boot screen is present in this dual boot installation, does that change anything.
Logon to your Win 8.1 > press the Win logo key and R key . You are now at Run window> at the Run box type diskmgmt.msc > OK
You are now at Disk Management window > right click at the partition that house your Win 10 TP > click Delete Volume > the partition is now UNALLOCATED.
At the left of it is your Win 8.1 partition. Yes ?
If yes, right click at Win 8.1 partition > click Extend Volume > click Next > at Select the amount of space in MB, type in the maximum available space shown for the unallocated space in MB > Next > Finish
The space shrunk for Win 10 partition is now back to your Win 8.1

Window 10 Technical Preview Dual Boot warning popup message saids:

I'm running Windows 8.1 Pro and I'm trying to setup a dual boot with Windows 10 Technical Preview
I had problems using both Diskpart and Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, but I finally got a usb stick ready to run and install Windows 10 Technical Preview. It wasn't easy but I found another third party iso to usb tool called Rufus to finally get
my bios to boot into the usb drive. Anyway that's not the problem i'm inquiring about, its more about a warning popup message during the dual boot installation.
After selecting the keyboard layout and language and Microsoft user agreement screens, I select the custom installation to select the partition i want to install Windows 10. A warning message saids," The partitions on the disk selected for installation
are not in the recommended order for additional information about installing to gpt disk go to the Microsoft website and search for gpt." , and then it asks if you want to proceed with installation?

Hi,
According to the warning message, this sentence means that the type of current drive is not GPT disk suggested, while Windows installation process recommend you install it at other GPT disk drive. Generally speaking, this message won’t influence
Windows installation.
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Dual Boot on Satellite A205-S6808

I tried dual boot on my Satellite A205-S6808. I have installed W7 and I want boot also with XP Pro.The Lap Top does not accept XP Pro.What can be done????
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Lucanio Ramucci

I presume you must load SATA driver before WXP installation starts. Without SATA driver the HDD will not be visible for WXP.
According the notebook specification your notebook has Intel GM965 + Intel ICH8M chipset.
You can try to download this storage manager from http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/stormng-20070827133046.zip
Files from F6flpy > Ich8M_32-bit folder extract to FLOPPY Disc.
When WXP setup starts press F6 and follow the menu on the screen. When necessary load the files using S button.
I hope this will work.
If you don't have floppy disc to load it you can try to create own WXP installations disc using nLite software.
I hope THIS guideline can help you to do this.
I really hope you will have success with dual boot installation.
At the end I must confirm what Jeka wrote. If possible install WXP at first. When you install it as second OS you will not be able to choose between both installed operating systems. Only using BOOT manager you will be able to choose which OS should start. when you install newer OS as second one you will have small menu shown at start-up where you can choose which OS should be loaded.

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Thanks

Did you use any download manager to install Windows 10 TP ISO file?
What software did you used to create Windows installer file from ISO?
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ASM1061 (SATA chip) --- archlinux-2013.07.01-dual.iso fails to boot

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Last edited by g3n3r1c (2013-07-28 15:34:07)

archlinux-2013.07.01-dual.iso hangs on boot if ANY SATA device (even just an optical drive) is connected to the ports of this chip (ASM1061) on my motherboard.
Arch installations, which do not comment out following line in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules and rebuild initramfs also hang on boot:
# ATA/ATAPI devices (SPC-3 or later) using the "scsi" subsystem
#KERNEL=="sd*[!0-9]|sr*", ENV{ID_SERIAL}!="?*", SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", ATTRS{type}=="5", ATTRS{scsi_level}=="[6-9]*", IMPORT{program}="ata_id --export $devnode"
I'd like to be able to boot an arch install medium, without removing the SATA connectors from my board's ASM1061 (Remastering official install live iso --- how to create initrd?).
Edit: Debian's and Fedora's install media are booting fine when devices are connected to the ASM1061, Ubuntu's install medium fails to boot --- like Arch
Edit: I do not know if this is relevant: The motherboard has UEFI.
Update: It is possible to alter the arch install live iso to make it boot (Remastering official install live iso --- how to create initrd?).
Last edited by g3n3r1c (2013-07-28 15:34:07)

Arch fails to boot after installation (BIOS mode)

I finished my Arch installation, following the Beginner's Guide, and once I unmounted the partitions and rebooted, GRUB failed to boot into Arch. I'm not exactly sure what the problem is though. Basically what happens is I power on the machine, the Dell splash screen comes up, GRUB loads, I choose
Arch Linux, with Linux core repo kernel
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Arch Linux, with Linux core repo kernel (Fallback initramfs)
However, when I choose to boot Win XP everything boots just fine. My apologies for the quality of the videos and pictures.
Here's a video of what happens:
http://youtu.be/uC96kX6iTjI
I suspect this has to do with this error I got when I generated the "grub.cfg". Although I'm not entirely sure because my understanding is that this error would affect booting Win XP which in fact boots perfectly fine.
Error (and no I'm not using any lvm volumes)
http://imgur.com/qqxpoGG
I believe these are the portions of the "grub.cfg" that load Arch and Win XP. I got these by pressing "e" while on their menu entry in the GRUB bootloader.
Arch (I had to scroll down to see the rest, hence two pictures)
http://imgur.com/79dBw2C
http://imgur.com/qusEfL0
Win XP
http://imgur.com/oLnLlT0
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Troubleshooting boot problems
If you are using an Intel video chipset and the screen goes blank during the boot process, the problem is likely an issue with Kernel Mode Setting. A possible workaround may be achieved by rebooting and pressing
e
over the entry that you are trying to boot (i686 or x86_64). At the end of the string type
nomodeset
and press
Enter
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http://youtu.be/vXRcbU0zdto
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RAM: 2 GB DDR2
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i kept a dual boot of windows 7 and mac os x lion in macbook pro. so, should i keep antivirus for windows 7? which is prescribable between bit defender(bd) and microsoft security essentials(mse)?does bd and mse un-installs easily?

lower your font size unless you have difficulty
MS Security Essentials is excellent
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[SOLVED] Lenovo T530 UEFI Arch/Ubuntu Dual boot - Arch fails to boot.

Hi All,
I have installed Arch to my Lenovo T530 to dual boot with Ubuntu using UEFI and Grub.
After installation, Arch is presented to me as an option when my laptop fires up. However, if I select it, the loader goes to a purple screen and then hangs.
I have attached here the bootloader scripts for my Arch installation (not working), my Ubuntu installation (working) and the output from sudo lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size,uuid.
Please let me know if there is more useful information I can provide. (I have output from Bootinfoscript available but it is quite extensive).
I am hoping to find out if there is an easily fixable error in the booting scripts used by Grub. If not, I have seen the section on dual booting with Arch in the wiki. My worry is that if I resort to it, UEFI looks to be temperamental at best and I risk breaking my currently working Ubuntu installation.
Thanks and regards,
Simon
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setparams 'Arch (on /dev/sda4)'
insmod part-gpt
insmod ext2
set root= 'hd0,gpt4'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 -\
-hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 -hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4 729b5164-22c4-4c21-8212-\
66038d60943e
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 729b5164-22c4-4c21-821\
2-66038d60943e
fi
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=UUID=ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d\
8071d467 rw quiet
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Ubuntu boot script (working)
setparams 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.13.0-24-generic'
recordfail
load_video
gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part-gpt
insmod ext2
set root= 'hd0,gpt2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd\
0,gpt2 --hint-efi=hd0,gpt2 -hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt2 542bf27c-0fd5-42\
4a-b4d8-107f7cf97b75
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 542bf27c-0fd5-\
424a-b4d8-107f7cf97b75
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.13.0-24-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=5\
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echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
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sda 119.2G
├─sda1 /boot/efi BOOTLOADER 524M 9360-2939
├─sda2 / Linux_Ubuntu 34.6G 542bf27c-0fd5-424a-b4d8-107f7cf97b75
├─sda3 [SWAP] Swap 9.8G 7768ae01-6e37-450b-bf0c-d873e3fd06a1
├─sda4 Linux_Arch 32.7G 729b5164-22c4-4c21-8212-66038d60943e
├─sda5 /media/Data Data 33.2G 5a971a77-685b-43d5-a8e6-c7b407a4c2ff
└─sda6 Misc_Data 8.5G b165990d-bd25-458f-b2d6-63fae28d0870
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sr0 1024M
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linux /boot/vmlinuz root=UUID=ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d8071d467 rw quiet
Change the UUID here. Where did that come from?
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2nd EDIT: this UUID is in the default in grub.cfg. For some reason, it sometimes won't be replaced by grub-mkconfig... Maybe the user didn't run grub-mkconfig, but edited the file him or herself? simon_sjw?
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Dual boot G4: internet fails in OS 10.3, but perfect in 9.2.2 - please help

Please bear with me if this is a little muddled, but I'm so fed up now that I'm not sure of my own logic any more!
I acquired, months ago, a dual boot G4 tower which was running the 10.3.9 update and 9.2.2 . It had been upgraded with faster processor and lots of RAM, and everything seemed to be working perfectly - and FAST - except the internet in OS X. After lots of reading and realsing that other people have had similar symptoms (silly messages from Software update, dropped connections after a few minutes or even seconds, many failed connections, most websites startting to load, and then failing followed by a disconnect), I tried everything suggested, to no avail. OS 9 on the same computer works fine, so the modem is ok. A G4 titanium laptop (10.2.8) also works fine with identical settings to the tower and using the same connecting lead, and a PC running XP Home also works perfectly, so the line must be ok.
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Sorry this is so long, but I thought I'd try to provide all information in the one hit. I'd be very glad to hear what you all think, and what I can try next?
Thanks.

Welcome To  Discussions tchaik!
No guarantees, but try this procedure.
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com.apple.internetpref.plist (a file)
com.apple.internetconnect.plist (a file)
com.apple.internetconfig.plist (a file)
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"Wait for dial tone before dialing"
"Dialing": Tone
"Sound": On
"Show modem status in menubar"
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Location: "Automatic"
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paulfaber wrote:
I have an Intel iMac running Leopard and a 40GB dual-boot Vista installation. I am considering upgrading to Snow Leopard. After reading some of these forums, I am fairly certain that I should do a clean install of Snow Leopard.
why?
Is there a FAQ or advice column I can read on how to best proceed?
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Can I share a library between two installations of iTunes on a dual-boot PC

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I would like to dual boot between Windows XP and Windows 7 (x64). If I install iTunes under both versions of Windows can I configure them to share the same iTunes library on disk?
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To make this simpler I'd like to store my music library on an "E:" volume that has the same drive letter under both XP and 7.

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