The TL;DR, added in the edit: The question is: How can I make the BIOS prefer GRUB over Windows Boot Manager on the same UEFI boot partition? The problem is not with Grub; Grub does the right thing when the BIOS starts it. The problem is not with "the disk isn’t bootable," because both the…

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 server and am having some very counter-intuitive experiences with users/groups. For example: sudo touch test_file                    # create empty filesudo groupadd test                      # create ‘test’ groupsudo chown root:test test_file          # change group of file to ‘test’sudo chmod g+rwx test_file              # give write permissions to groupsudo usermod -a -G test {my-user}       #…

I was wondering how low you could go with hardware that would still be able to smoothly run HD movies. My current plan is around $215 CAD w/o a hard drive: Intel Pentium 4 @ 3.2 GHz – 1GB DDR/SDRAM – 512MB X1600 Pro AGP – 350W PSU – ECS P4VXASD2+ – Bluray/DVD-RW drive. As…

I have a dual-boot setup with Ubuntu (lucid) and Windows 7. I have the Windows file system shared on Ubuntu through Samba. Occasionally, I am working on Windows and my machine will go into hibernate (i.e. when the battery level is critical). By default, my GRUB settings boot me into Ubuntu. So when I get…

How can you take a VMware image and place it onto other hardware systems as the default OS? I want to do this with my Ubuntu VM’s Solution: You can use VMWare’s VMWare Converter Here’s a link to some documentaiton from VMWare’s site http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/index.html

When I am connected to my local Ubuntu dev server with putty (from my Windows 7 box) via SSH, the following key combinations don’t work to move the cursor forward and backward on word boundaries: Ctrl+Left Arrow on the cursor pad Ctrl+Right Arrow on the cursor pad The cursor only moves one character at a…

I installed Ubuntu sometime back along side Vista, but later found that I rarely (if ever) use Ubuntu. How easy is it to return my computer to its initial state of having only one OS, and freeing up the hard-drive space used by the Ubuntu install? Solution: There are two factors here: first, repair the…

In continuation to Failure to resize a virtualbox volumeI used the following commands in order to increase the space available in my virtual machine (Ubuntu): VBoxManage.exe clonehd “c:usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193Box1.vmdk” “C:Usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193clone.vdi” –format vdiVBoxManage.exe modifyhd “c:usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193clone.vdi” –resize 102400VBoxManage.exe clonehd “c:usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193clone.vdi” “C:Usersa_bVirtualBox VMsMyBox_default_1510839571239_2193Box2.vmdk” –format vmdk No errors were outputted in the process.However, neither the size…

I had Vista installed on a partition and I installed Ubuntu on the remaining free space. Now when I boot the computer the OS selection screen is GRUB. Ive used EasyBCD to configure my Vista boot loader. How do I get the computer to use the Vista boot loader when it boots instead of GRUB?…

It’s pretty clear that Windows’ 10 “host” filesystem is mounted at /mnt/c/ from “Linux” perspective of view. But is it possible to get an access to “Linux” filesystem from Windows? If so, where it is? Solution: The single root file system was located here until Windows 10 Fall Creators update (released in Oct. 2017): %LOCALAPPDATA%Lxssrootfs…