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I was on the phone & had a USB in the slot looking for some files. I'd found what I wanted and copied them to the Ubuntu SSD. Still on the phone, I didn't realise I'd changed drives and I'm pretty...

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I accidentally changed a parameter in Disks on the LV that contains Ubuntu in this dual boot PC. From memory, I think I lost authorisation to do anything to it, and then rebooted - I should've...

Thanks very much for that info!
I've not been near this machine for a week.
Thunderbird updated and the problem went away, which is both good and annoying at the same time.

Hi all,

As per the title - click on a link in a Thunderbird email after first start of PC (Ubuntu 23.04 on Wayland) and it opens up the browser and navs to the page.

Next click on an email...

Windows updated & the system has reverted to the previous state. The partial fix achieved by the win cmd doesn't work this time.

Pastebin URL - https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/58H5PGKPHr/

Thanks for...

Partially "solved".

Research led me to using the following command in Windows:


bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi

Now the system boots to some error messages:

"Failed...

Thanks oldfred - Yes, LVM is mounted. I have already turned off fast start.

I re-ran the report after making sure in Disks that everything was mounted - extra lines are included (100-108) but I...

I had a glitch yesterday & had to re-set Win11.

There was some reordering of disks as I had to boot from a USB to get to the repair area.

I've changed the disk boot order back to the original...

Thanks Oldfred,will do - sorry for the clog.

Hey @Cavsfan - send me away if this is the wrong spot!

I had a glitch today & had to re-set Win11.
There was some reordering of disks as I had to boot from a USB to get to the repair area.
...

Yep, same-same here.
Glad to see the end of it.

I've had a similar problem for ages - it seems that there are windows/screens open even after shutting the program down - and if it hasn't frozen!

I've sometimes resorted to starting it from...

Thanks!

Yep - I remember the Plymouth one as being coloured purple from I don't know how many distros ago so it didn't worry me as it was familiar.

As I said above, in my last setup, the next...

It's now a UEFI/GPT system after much pain to the management.

Selecting an OS works fine.

If I select Win, the little wheel thingy rotates in a sort of cutout box in the middle of the GRUB...

I can't for the life of me remember how I got to my last (and preferred) setup - I've gone over the wiki etc & fiddled but no result.

I had to reload Win & Ubuntu (separate drives) as for the...

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I've been back here heaps over the last 3 or 4 days to re-read the info provided above - it was very helpful!

I know you've all had your lives on hold wondering how I went so...

I will make very sure!
Cheers.

Thanks guys!

Yes, I installed Win with my Ubuntu disk unplugged and then installed Ubuntu on to another hdd. I had been on XP in the dual boot forever and hardly ever used it but I had to update...

Thanks heaps oldfred, I'll go over those links.

Pastebin link here - https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/WWVc2dkpPJ/

Hi!

I cloned a 1TB drive containing Ubuntu 20.10 on to an Crucial SSD using Clonezilla.

I did a similar thing when I built this machine, moving WIN10 from an old Samsung 250GB HDD on to a 1TB...

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If you are unable to boot in to Ubuntu at all, try booting using a USB stick made in Win10 using these instructions

Then attempt to repair the GRUB menu with this method

If you can log...

What boot manager are you using?
Are the OS's on separate drives or in partitions on one drive?
Is it a UEFI system?

Hi Cavsfan - my old frankenbox finally fell over so I bit the bullet and went all new. This combo should last a week before obsolescence, it's that cutting edge :-)

Anyway, upon plugging in HDDs...

Hi Herman - yes I know that - I dual boot and still have a lot of stuff in Win, both home and work. It's the most compatible storage format for my use at the moment.

I think it's buggered though....

Thanks guys - more learning! :)

As I said above, I got some files from it intermittently and transferred them to another drive.

I've since reformatted it as one partition in NTFS. I have copied...