I use Ubuntu 18.04 on my computer. This Ubuntu installation appears as ubuntu at system EFI boot menus.  I also have a external USB storage that has a EFI Ubuntu installation. This external USB storage also appears with the name ubuntu at system EFI.  I see two ubuntu menus at system EFI boot menus when external USB storage is attached. This makes it hard to figure out which ubuntu menu item points to the Ubuntu installation on the computer, and which one points to the Ubuntu installation on the external USB storage.  How I can change the EFI boot label to something different?  For example, how can I change ubuntu EFI boot label on the external USB storage to appear as External Ubuntu at system EFI boot menus?   The Ubuntu on my external USB storage has its own EFI partition.  This question is different from   This question is about how to change the Efi Boot name that appears in the EFI Firmware setup and not in the GRUB boot menu.
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I have a system where I am dual-booting Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 and Ubuntu GNOME 16.04, however after installing Ubuntu GNOME 16.04, I have found that in the GRUB boot entry list it is called "Ubuntu", whereas the other one is called something like "Ubuntu GNOME 15.10", is there any way I can change the text of the "Ubuntu" one to "Ubuntu GNOME 16.04"? And also change the names of the other options so that instead of "Advanced options for Ubuntu" it says "Advanced options for Ubuntu GNOME 16.04" etc?  I rather do it manually if it is safe to do so, or a piece of software could be recommended, however nothing from a PPA or other untrusted not official source (I will only install software from the Ubuntu official repositories).
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I have a machine which installed a ubuntu 16.04 on one partition and a ubuntu 16.10 on another. I have a 200m partition which mounts /boot/efi.  Basically I use 16.04 and use the grub installed by 16.04.  Sometimes I get on 16.10 and update the kernel. However, I cannot update the grub of my 16.04 without entering it. So I have to do grub-install on 16.10 in order to boot the new kernel. Then when I come back to 16.04, I update-grub and grub-install, which is stupid I think.  How can I update the grub of 16.04 without entering it, is there a good solution?  Can I do something like updating the grub config file or using another partition as /boot? Is this kind of operation dangerous?
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I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18.10 on a new not partitioned HDD (using a VMWare machine). I try with manual partitioning to create the EFI System Partition but there is no EFI System Partition option (or other option containing the EFI word). I tried with 100M, 300M, 500M, 512M sizes but no luck. What's the solution for this?  PS: the similar question related to Ubuntu 15.10 doesn't help
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Basically what I want to do is install a fresh copy of Ubuntu from Ubuntu. It is an older machine so usb boot doesn't work and I don't see why I need to waste a CD to do it. Currently running Ubuntu 11.10.  I have a 1TB drive and a second 500GB drive for backup. The 1TB drive is partitioned as:  20GB   sda1 Windows XP 20GB   sda3 Free for new OS  ~800GB sda4 Data (ext3) 60GB   sda7 /home (ext4) 20GB   sda6 / (ubuntu 11.10 ext4) 2GB    sda5 swap   After researching I decided that using unetbootin was the best option. I chose Hard Disk (frugal install) and the only option for which disk is "/". That worked and I quickly rebooted into Ubuntu 12.04 live.   Chose to install and picked custom options, set sda3 for / and sda7 for /home. The installer started but hit a wall at detecting other operating systems. It was trying to mount sda6 to find out about the existing os's on the machine, for the purpose of installing grub. And it couldn't umount sda6 because that was currently mounted as cd drive for live cd. I couldn't find an option to make the installer skip this step (I could later fix the grub in 11.10).  I have another drive with 4GB free partition and if I could get unetbootin to install to there it would all work.  So my question is - how do I get unetbootin to install to a different disk for hard-disk install? (I don't think USB Drive mode will work because it will install the grub to that disk -  but I might be wrong!)  or  How to fresh install Ubuntu from Ubuntu?
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i am building my own distro (which i am almost done) but one thing left is the name of it. since i am not sure what to name it im leaving the "ubuntu" there  i know i will have to change the following files   /etc/lsb-release /etc/issue   to my own name and version and code name. am i missing other files?  (on my site it shows it's an ubuntu version - i read the tm etc... but i want the name of my distro to be there) thanks
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My system is not dual-boot, I run a standard Ubuntu desktop system "on the metal" (I think running it in a VM is the same).  Pressing c while booting does not cause the GRUB menu to appear (which I believe it does for a dual-boot system).  How can I get the GRUB-menu to present itself on a single-boot system?
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I have used  to create an installable / live bootable flash drive from Ubuntu 12.04. However that didn't preserve the normal Ubuntu boot menu which allows to me to enter advanced options. It has a custom menu that I can pick from predefined choices like "Install Ubuntu" and "Try Ubuntu without installing". What I would like is to be able to boot from the USB flash drive, but then be able to remove it from the computer once the desktop has loaded. The laptop I would like to use this on does not have an optical (CD/DVD) drive - nor do I have a USB version available.  What do I need to modify on the flash drive to add an option to "Try Ubuntu (RAM)" that passes the TORAM=yes parameter to the initrd options? Are their other things I need to touch/change as well? Is it even possible? I am not restricted to version 12.04 if that makes a difference.  Bonus: I would guess the answer would also allow for other options like acpi=off as well, but if it is different I would appreciate having that answer too.
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I have Ubuntu installed alongside of Windows and in bootloader (grub) these operating systems as all of yours are with long names! How can I change the names in grub? for example I want to change the 4th one to "my fathers OS" and when I choose it in the grub it will go to the Windows.
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I am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 on my Dell XPS 15 9570.  I have followed the steps provided in the .  However, I have stumbled on an issue.   When I boot from USB I am immediately directed to the "Try Ubuntu" option. I do not manage to choose "Install Ubuntu"    I connect to WiFi here. And then open the Install Ubuntu 18.04 icon from the desktop.   I select the language and the keyboard   I then press "Continue" on the following window:  I get to the following window:    If I try to press "Install Now" it tells me:  When I try to press "change" or "+" the Install window closes.     I suspect the issue is that I need to change the drive to ACHI mode. But, I don't know why that would help and why can't it see the drive now.  I have create the bootable USB using Rufus 3.3 and then I have formatted it and tried again using UNetbootin. Same issue.
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I recently installed 12.04 using WUBI installer in a separate partition. Because of some problem, I had to reinstall my Windows.   Now the problem is that my Windows has recovered, but Ubuntu is not showing up at the boot menu, even though the Ubuntu partition is intact.
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I want to install Ubuntu like how you would to a hard drive so I can use it as a portable system. I do not want a Live install; I want something where i can install updates, install drivers, and things like that. I'm really confused because I made a persistent install using UNetBootIn in Windows thinking that would allow me to do that and yet when I booted I still saw the "Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS" icon.
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First of all: this is not a duplicate of the all the " questions.  Problem:  When booting, the system will not boot unless the installer USB flash drive is present. If I boot without the USB drive, the screen goes black AFTER GRUB lists the different configurations available - so GRUB is on the correct disk, its what it does next that seems to be the problem.  With the USB drive inserted, its access light starts flashing while the system boots in a normal manner.  And yes: I have tried booting from the USB drive directly and then I get the "live" version, so I have not installed the OS on the flash drive by mistake :)   I have tried sudo grub-install /dev/sda and sudo update-grub just for fun, but nothing changed.  System in short:  Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. i3 processor. UEFI bios. 128Gb SSD drive. The SSD has a 47 Mb EFI partition and the rest mounted as '/' (XFS).
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More specifically, I want to know if when I put the Ubuntu OS on my flash drive if it is permanent or not. As in,can I delete the Ubuntu installation files after I install it on my computer and use it as a regular USB again? I just want to install Ubuntu on a unformatted hard drive and then be able to use my USB like normal again.  Sorry, I know I must sound very redundant. Thank you for the help.
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I have two separate SSD's. One of them has Windows 10 Pro installed, and the other has Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS.   When my computer boots I get no grub menu to choose the operating system I want to boot into, it directly boots into Ubuntu automatically. I can boot into windows with on problems when setting its SSD as the first one in the boot sequence in the BIOS.  I have a third 2TB HDD that I use only for storage. Here is the information summary after running bootinfoscript  ============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================   =&gt; Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.  =&gt; Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.  =&gt; Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc and looks at sector 1 of      the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks      in partition 112 for .  sda1: __________________________________________________________________________      File system:       ntfs     Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7: NTFS     Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.     Operating System:       Boot files:        /bootmgr /Boot/BCD  sda2: __________________________________________________________________________      File system:       ntfs     Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7: NTFS     Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.     Operating System:       Boot files:        /Windows/System32/winload.exe  sda3: __________________________________________________________________________      File system:       ntfs     Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7: NTFS     Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.     Operating System:       Boot files:          sdb1: __________________________________________________________________________      File system:       ext4     Boot sector type:  -     Boot sector info:      Operating System:  Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS     Boot files:        /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab  sdb2: __________________________________________________________________________      File system:       swap     Boot sector type:  -     Boot sector info:   sdb3: __________________________________________________________________________      File system:       vfat     Boot sector type:  FAT32     Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.     Operating System:       Boot files:        /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi /efi/ubuntu/MokManager.efi                         /efi/ubuntu/shimx64.efi  sdb4: __________________________________________________________________________      File system:       ext4     Boot sector type:  -     Boot sector info:      Operating System:       Boot files:          sdc1: __________________________________________________________________________      File system:       ntfs     Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7: NTFS     Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.     Operating System:       Boot files:         I have installed Linux before many times, however this is my first time installing it on a separate drive. Do I need to do anything extra/different seeing that is is installed on a separate drive to Windows?
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I am dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. How to tell grub not to show the boot menu and boot directly to Windows 10 by default? What should I do if I want to boot to Ubuntu 18.04 instead of the default Windows 10?
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I am trying to install Ubuntu on to a clean system and use XFS for the system partition. However it seems that my UEFI system does not like XFS.  When installing I select 'something else' and manually partition the disk. As part of troubleshooting as have put the partitions back to the bear minimum of a single ESP partition and a system partition. When I choose EXT4 for the system partition the system installs and then boots successfully. When I do everything exactly the same, but change the system partition to use XFS the system installs but when it reboots I am presented with the grub prompt. When listing disks (ls (hd0,gpt2)) the XFS partition is seen as unknown and unreadable.  What am I doing wrong and how can I install Ubuntu using XFS as the format for the system disk?
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I've two different OS, which one is ubuntu. I'm using a PC, NOT a Mac. I use Chimera bootloader that don't find Ubuntu. So, i'd like to install grub 2 in EFI-mode on flash-drive USB. In this way, i can load Ubuntu only if the usb flash-drive is connected.  I followed this guide  replacing "/dev/sda" in  sudo efibootmgr --create --gpt --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --write-signature --label "GRUB2" --loader "\\EFI\\grub\\grub.efi"   with the usb-pen directory. Then, i've copied the grub.cfg file that exists in Ubuntu partition.Result? Grub2 loads, but when i select the menu entries, grub2 doesn't find any command, or disks. How can i fix this problem?  P.S. Here, there are the photo of the error(when i select ubuntu entry in grub2), the usb-drive's contents and the grub.cfg file