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Being Belgian, all laptops come with windowsTM pre-installed. Ingnorantly, I bought on thinking I would be able to install (K)ubuntu. I found out the UEFI is just microsoft's way to prevent you doing this. It stops you booting from USB or CD, it does not allow installing Linux or anything.
I tried the F2/F10 options and settings, I disengaged the security options, disabled secure boot, changed boot order, I tried changing HD with compatible laptop and running OS, tried to bang it against my head, nothing lets me install Linux, it just says:"no bootable device found"
UEFI dual booting Linux and Windows is big tangled mess. I've pulled it off with Ubuntu and Fedora, but after a lot of effort. There are a lot of important variables here. I'm more likely to be able to offer a solution with the following info:
Which media are you using – USB or optical?
How did you create the media? (e.g. Pendrive, Rawwrite, etc.)
Which laptop manufacturer? (This is surprisingly relevant)
Also, it will help us all in the long run if we get more insight into the specific UEFIs and start documenting this issue more thoroughly. UEFIs are embedded software typically written by third-party companies like Insyde. You can find yours by installing a Windows system detailer like Speccy or HWInfo64. See the attached screenshot from Speccy. This info is unlikely to help here and now, but it will help us long-term: I'm looking to create a repository for these UEFI boot issues if someone hasn't done so already.
Try installing Fedora 22. There is a UEFI trampoline to get passed this hurdle. If I had a UEFI machine I'd have tested this answer; it is theoretical at best.
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So I recently got the Lenovo x270, and installed Debian on it instead of the default Windows OS. I've come to find out WiFi, as well as ethernet are both shipped not working. I've tried to fix it, but nothing has worked so far. I switched from straight Debian 8 to Kali to see if it was just a problem in base Debian, but it wasn't. Laptop specs related to issue:
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265
Kali Linux (Kernel 4.0.0)
1 Ethernet port
I installed the Intel drivers needed for the 8265 (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking/000005511.html). However, this requires a kernel version of 4.6, which it doesn't seem I can get without apt-get which I can't use because I don't have internet.
I also attempted to manually add the ethernet using https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Setting_up_an_Ethernet_Interface and a few other sources I've now lost, but that didn't work either. The main problem I'm having is it seems you need internet to be able to install various packages that allow you to get internet, so I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas would be a great help.
Thank you.
Without knowing the specific NIC, it's hard to say which specific driver is required though Lenovo lists the x270 has having an intel NIC. Running lspci should give you the manufacturer and device ID of the NIC, which enables you to lookup the device on sites such as http://pcidatabase.com/.
The kernel messages might contain useful debugging information, try running dmesg, it might give you information on detected devices or driver-issues.
The kernel might not have loaded the relevant module for the intel WNIC, try forcing it by running sudo modprobe iwlwifi.
Wireless networking devices require non-free firmware. For the intel 8265, this is available as a .deb-package at https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=firmware-iwlwifi, .deb-packages can be installed using sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb.
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I have Fedora 11 installed on VirtualBox. By accident some files in /var directory were damaged or removed(I don't know what exactly). Now when trying to run Fedora, it goes untill choosing the user and freezes. No reaction at mouse and keyboard clicks. Does anyone have any suppositions how to run it, or at least how to retrieve files from virtual machine? I booted it to the terminal where I updated all what is possible - gnome, etc...But still no result.
It's impossible to know what happened without knowing what got removed. However, a great way to get your files out is using scp. Good examples for this can be found here.
Alternatively, if you've installed the Virtualbox Guest Additions you can use a USB drive to retrieve your files. There's a pretty good tutorial on how to get your USB drive working on VBox here.
If you want my best guess as to what's wrong, something in your /var relating to your GUI got removed, as from what I understand you can still boot to your command line. My suggestion would be to get what you need off the machine using the above tools and get a fresh install.
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My question is related to my grade project. Its about mobile video transmission using DVB-H link layer. Its a comprehensive project itself, and there are separate parts. I mainly construct system in Matlab Simulink, but there is one part, responsible for encapsulation/decapsulation of the stream packet, which was designed in Linux environment.
I didn't want to install new OS just for one application, so I run Linux on VMware Player as a virtual machine. So here is my problem - the applications (for encapsulation and decapsulation) won't compile (install) completely. I see mainly missing library problems. I tried to install necessary libraries, but the original application still couldn't see some of them. I feel like I'm missing something small, but clear to rather experienced Linux user. Here is the link to the programs
http://sp.cs.tut.fi/mobile3dtv/download/
"DECAPS - DVB-H Decapsulator Software" is the one (and FATCAPS link is there).
I couldn't find alternative encapsulator/decapsulator in for Windows environment. Its my last and only choice. If please some of the Linux users could try to run them in Linux environment, maybe its because I'm using virtual machine? Its also noted that the application was designed for Debian based systems, but I also did install Debian as a virtual machine and application won't even configure. Please help, guys, I'm really stuck here.
You'll probably need to install the development versions of the libraries -- under Debian, the'll be named the same as the original package, but with a "-dev" suffix.
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I am a Windows 7 user and now I want to use linux. However I am beginner for linux. Currently I have linux mint in a usb and load it from there. The problem is, it doesn't save stuff like everytime I have to enter my wifi password, or change the default search to google, etc etc. Now I am thinking of installing ubuntu alongside windows. Now after googling a little I realized that I can do it in 2 ways: Using a windows installer, or Using something called a virtual box. My question is, which option should I choose and why? What is a virtual box anyway? Also, is this the right link? I need the 64 bit version. Shall I choose the first one?
virtual box allows you to run an OS over the one you are currently working in. You must download virtual box for windows those links are for linux,ubuntu etc.. You might wanna use http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.3.6/VirtualBox-4.3.6-91406-Win.exe link instead.
The issue with a virtual machine is that it is running your native OS and another "virtual" OS; as you can imagine, this can be slow. Booting up your virtual OS also takes longer seeing as you functionally need to boot two OSs rather than one.
In terms of dual booting (installing an OS alongside your native OS -- in this case Windows), the resultant OS typically will run faster and won't be bogged down as much. If you have a lot of RAM you might not notice the speed loss though. That being said, it is much easier to install multiple virtual machines than it is to install multiple OSs; your hard drive won't be chaotically partitioned since virtual machines don't need separate partitions.
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I am trying to install ubuntu 14.04.2 LTE. I have a lunovo ideapad with windows 8. I have followed all necessary steps flawlessly, and even factory reset my laptop to make this smoother. I get this error when trying to boot and install ubuntu. I also get it if i try to run ubuntu without installing. Also I tried re-downloading ubuntu, and remounting on my usb with the universal usb installer.
Is this error due to my computer, or the ubs/unbuntu? There was another option in the boot menu. It was check disk for error. I do not know if it was checking disk as in the iso disk or my hard drive, but a ubuntu lunch screen appeared and it was looking into some ubuntu files (on the usb), when it was done it said there was 2 errors. It did not say what kind or if it repaired it , or how to repair it. It only gave me the option to exit, then lunovo boot screen appeared and it stayed in a attempting to repair loop for quite a awhile so I gave up on that and shut down.
I would ask this in ask ubuntu, but I do not have enough "respect points" to upload an image.
Major respect to anyone who can help me out, I have been to get ubuntu for 2 days now, and I hit a dead end.
This error message can appears in those cases:
1. Your hardware it not compatible, usually ACPI issue. Try to boot with additional options: "noapic" and/or "acpi=off". You should be able to set parameters in "Other options" [F6 key].
2. Your RAM is broken. Check it in "Test memory" option.