How to boot up in linux?

ok, i installed ubuntu by first partitioning the drive using bootcamp assistant then i deleted the FAT32 partition bootcamp made and created a home, swap, and a root partition out of the free space that the FAT32 gave. This is what most tutorials said to do. I then installed linux on the appropriate partitions. Because the FAT32 partition originally made by bootcamp was replaced, when i try and press the option key to select linux to boot up in when i restart, all that shows up is the Macintosh HD. i then tried installing refit to see if that would work. nope, all it did was put a lot of junk on my harddrive that i then had to delete. >.< any idea what i am doing wrong? thank you in advance for any advice.

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i remember in Windows you restart your computer
hold down F12 and select boot from DVD
how do you do that on the MacBook ?

The modifier key you are looking for is D if you're on an intel mac, or C if you are on a PowerPC mac, but you cannot simply boot to a Linux disk with apple hardware, doesn't work like that
Sorry

Is this how dual boot works in Lenovo laptops?

I have a Z580 and I've succesfully installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongside Windows 8. Earlier I lost my paritions during Ubuntu install and so I had to do a clean install of Windows using the MSDN version and by using the product key retrieved using RWEverything tool.
Here are my questions:
When I boot through Ubuntu there is a pause for almost 30 seconds with a blank screen before the Ubuntu startup screen comes up. Is that how it is or is there a way I can fix this?
When I boot Ubuntu boots well, but the Windows boot option doesn't appear in the Grub boot menu. But if I choose Windows boot option in the Boot Menu (by pressing the small button) Windows boots fine. Is this how it works on the Lenovo laptops? It's fine with me and in fact it's more desirable for me so that I can kinda hide Windows which I rarely use. But I'm curious to know if this is how it works and it's not related to the problem described in my first question.

I do not own the same machine, but I can make the following general observations:
Re: the 30 second pause, does that occur before or after the GRUB menu?
A Windows entry can be added to the Boot menu, which is contained in a config text file.
I don't know what you mean by pressing the small button to boot Windows.
My Lenovo laptop dual boots Linux and Windows (but not Ubuntu, and not Windows 8). The total boot time to Linux is around 45-60 seconds on a regular HDD, and 17-30 seconds on SSD, including Grub. Windows is about 45-90 seconds on HDD, 30 or so on SSD, including GRUB selection. That time is from when I press the power button until the desktop is up and the computer is either connected or connecting to Wi-Fi.
Usually, a longer delay with my Lenovo machine is because of having USB drives attached during boot (though I'm not sure why this causes a delay) or because of updates being installed.
There are log files created during boot time that you could research and read if you wanted to know where each chunk of time is going. I think they are under /var/log/boot or something like that.
Hope this helps some, anyway.
-JV474

How to Boot a MacBookPro with Ubuntu v10.10 on USB drive??

With Unbuntu v10.10 on my USB jump drive plugged into my MacBook Pro (OS X v10.6.6) & holding down the "alt" key during power-up, only the MacBook internal hard drive is available for selection.
Also tried holding down "command" + "option" + "F" + "0" during power up to access EFI but system boots as normal with no Bios or EFI settings available to change boot device. Plus using Statup Disk under System Preference shows only the MacBook Internal Hard Drive or Network as options, no USB.
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the easy step is boot linux with usb in a mac, the hard step is this run well configured, and you can run all features of you computer booting from a usb.
You cannot boot a MBR disc from USB, but you can boot an efi disc. You nees install grub-efi, and run it. If your mac is old, is possible that you cannot boot grub-efi from the efi boot particion (the first, that it is fomat in FAT32), and in this case, you need an HFS+ for boot grub-efi.
You can read this topic of ubuntu forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704
and in the grub web, has a wiki that you can learn how to configure the grub-efi and how to boot it in mac.
Good luck!

BIOS 1.7 Boot issue Mandrake linux yes - Windows XP no

I flashed my bois to 1.7 last night. I redid the CMOS settings and my PC boots fine. It then goes first to lilo (with windows as the default boot) and then onto windows XP boot (which has 3 options effectively all the same, just different names - dont ask ).
If I select Linux rather then Windows at the Lilo prompt the PC boots into Mandrake Linux 32bit version 10 fine. If however I select windows, then all I get after the XP OS selection screen is a blank screen.
If I try to boot from my Windows XP CDRom, it gets as far a checking system configuration and then hangs.
Fashrecovery also seems to hang.
As far as I recall the bios falsh complete successfully using liveupdate.
Anyone any suggestions on how to resurrect XP.
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2x512MB A-Data PC3200 ram
2x Maxtor 120GB SATA (not in a raid)
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Hello!
I do have exactly the same usb keyboard issue on my K8T Neo (BIOS 1.7), AND on the KT6V (BIOS 1.6) of my second system, and I also had to disable the usb legacy support stuff in order to make XP boot up again.
But ...
During POST the keyboard and mouse gets initialized and I'm able to trigger CMOS Setup as well as the Boot Menu or any other option available. If I press "F8" to call XP's boot menu it even works. The keyboard and mouse also works when I boot from the Ghost 2003 CD (IBM DOS).
I know this sounds a bit weird since legacy support is disabled, but it simply works as expected.
One thing I haven't tried out is if it still works with the flash recovery routine (CTRL+Home); but I think it won't.
Although I really like MSI's products (at least I own two MSI mainboards and two MSI FX graphic cards) it's a bit of shame that they doesn't resolve the countless little BIOS "bugs" - like the "NumLock" Problem with Linux - to the customers full satisfaction. :-(

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e) /pci@400/pci@2/pci@0/pci@a/SUNW, ealxs@0/fp@0, 0/disk
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h) /iscsi—hba/disk
q) NO SELECTION
valid choice: a. . .h, q to quit c
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Type “Y ( Control—Y ) to insert it in the command line.
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I have seen the solution that using format -e, we change the labelling but all the data will be lost, whats the way to apply a SMI Label/Format on a rpool disks while OS Installation itself.
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Oracle recommends below things on rpool: (thats reason wanted to apply SMI Label)
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I am still pondering getting a mini - I know that I will want a much larger hard drive (since I want to use it for media and will keep tons of video and music on it). I would like to know how to boot from an external hard drive. I've searched google, the forums, and apple support, and see people mention it all the time, but can't find out how to do it, etc. Is it just like running off my normal HD but all the files are kept on the external (so I could still access files thru itunes, etc.)?
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Can't get windows 8.1 with dual boot for fedora (linux) . system is UEFI .

Can't get windows 8.1 with dual boot for fedora (linux) . system is UEFI .

Hi,
Any update here?
We may seek help at Fedora forum as Milos suggested, if convenient we could share the related thread link here for reference.
In addition, please also check the information in the similar thread:
Dual Boot Windows 8 and Linux?
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Michael Shao
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How to embed mplayer in Linux with JNI

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confusingly yours,
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