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Question About Bootloader Partition (Mint)
I have a quick question that I ran across while trying to install Linux Mint along with Windows 8 on my computer. I'm pretty new to Linux stuff so I'm sorry if this is pretty obvious. I'm mainly ...
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How to dualboot Win7 and Chrome-OS on Netbook
I have tested Google Chrome OS (aka Chromium OS) using a USB pen drive, or more precisely Chrome OS Lime by Hexxeh.
Since I like it I would like to install it along side of my pre-installed Windows ...
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Can not mount drive after installing windows vista
I have searched for weeks now and have not found an answer to my question. Hopefully you guys can give me a push in the right direction :)
Ok, here is what happened:
I have linux mint on a 1.5 TB ...
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what's the best way to chainload this
I have two disks.
One contains windows and is a SATA-drive.
The other one contains Foresight Linux and is a IDE-drive.
Now I have installed extlinux as the bootloader for Foresight Linux.
Now I ...
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How to access u boot environment from linux?
How can I access and change the u-Boot env variables in linux. Using the u-boot/tools/env directory in u boot directory:
u-boot$ make env
Which created the executable file fw_printenv. I copied ...
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Running one OS per core
I'm interested in using a COTS board like the Wandboard for a project. On one hand I'd like to use something like Ubuntu for user interaction, sounds, TCP/IP stuff, etc. But I also need an RTOS like ...
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How can I boot the PC-BSD live DVD-ISO IMAGE directly via GRUB2?
Via the loopback command, GRUB2 allows to directly boot an ISO file.
Now, I've configured the according menuentry to boot the PC-BSD Live DVD ISO, but when I try to boot it, the FreeBSD bootstrap ...
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How to dual boot Linux and Windows from small boot drive?
I am a Linux newbie, and I am trying to dual boot Linux Mint with Windows 7. Right now, Windows 7 boots from a small SSD, which has little extra room on it. Is there a way to set up a dual boot where ...
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Can the grub2 bootloader replace Windows bootloader partition?
I'm dual-booting Windows and Kali Linux on my laptop, using grub2 as the bootloader.
Can I remove the partition Windows 7 creates for the bootloader? It is the 100MB partition labeled "System ...
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How can I configure grub (or a different bootloader) to use modifier keys?
To clarify, I am wanting to dual boot Windows and a Linux distribution. I already know how to set my laptop up to do that. However, I don't want the grub menu to display on boot. I would like for it ...
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FreeNAS grub2 booting ISO
I've got usb-keys setup to multi-boot different Linux images. I wouldn't mind adding FreeNAS, and there's a doc with samples to add to grub.cfg
menuentry "FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64" {
insmod ufs2
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Getting “NTFS5: No ang0” error message when booting Linux Mint
I am getting the following message as shown in the link below when trying to boot into linux mint 13.
Try (hd0,0): NFTS5: No ang0
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5: No ang0
Try (hd0,2): NTFS5: No ang0
Try ...
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How to use ms-sys to restore MBR to boot /dev/sda2?
My brother screwed up a multi-OS install on his laptop and asked me to help fix it. I'm a basic linux user and I know my way around the terminal a little but beyond that I might need some hand-holding ...
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Manually copying MBR from one drive to the other GPT drive and configuring GRUB results in booting failure
I run CentOS 6.4. I have SSD 300GB for system files and RAID10 8TB for storage + backup.
SSD system drive is partitioned as follows: fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 300.1 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 ...
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“ unsupported for `ljmp' ” error while compiling minimal bootloader and kernel
I'm using gmake to compile this code, but I'm stuck on this error message:
+ as kern/entry.S
kern/entry.S: Assembler messages:
kern/entry.S:55: Error: unsupported for `ljmp'
gmake: * ...
