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Theoretical cpu emulation built into boot-loader or kernel?
Is it a crazy idea to somehow make a blend of grub and qemu in order to boot linux kernels or any kernel of any cpu type supported by qemu or the built-in cpu? I know it might be impossible to detach ...
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Moving compiled assembly code to the boot sector of a USB device
I have written a simple operating system and I am trying to test it. I have VirtualBox installed and an eight GB flash drive, so I thought I would just use those. I am not sure how to make the USB ...
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Can't boot after installing FreeBSD in VMware Workstation
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1-i386 in VMware Workstation.
I'm following the guide in the manual on freebsd.org to do this.
When I come to the partitioning part I use the guided setting and it ...
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File system CRC check
I know that before running the kernel, u-boot (the boot loader) will check the kernel image CRC. Only if it is correct it will go further, else it will give a "Bad CRC" error.
I want to do same thing ...
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Does the vmlinux header contain the length of the kernel image?
I am trying to disassemble a compound file that consists of several parts, one of which is an uncompressed kernel sandwiched between several other files. I am trying to find the exact length of the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to boot on Fedora 18 (Grub2)
I have Fedora 18 and Windows 7 on my laptop.
I had grub2 bootloader and the default is been set to windows 7.
After I turn on my laptop it just automatically boots into windows 7.
Now I want to set ...
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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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Where to find the VBR on the /dev/sda1 partition?
I have one built-in hard disk /dev/sda which looks like this:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * ...
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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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Grub with two hard drives
I am trying to install Mint14 on my machine having two hard drives :
Samsung SSD PM830 SATA : 128 Gb ( sda ) - Windows 7 (i want to keep this)
ST9500423AS ATA : 500 Gb ( sdb ) - ...
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How does kernel swapping / INT 13h interrupts work?
I'm looking for a way to learn about and understand this technique. Here's what I'm talking about:
Slax boots, {does stuff, like copy itself to RAM}, then transitions control to the kernel/file ...
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Initrd : Were can I found the code for real-root-dev
I'm trying to customize my initrd on kernel 2.4.
At some point, inside the file linuxrc, I have the opportunity to set my root device setting the /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev variable
The example ...
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“error setting up gummiboot-efi” on Archboot UEFI install
I recently purchased an Aspire XC600, but am having trouble installing Arch. I haven't installed on UEFI before. I want Arch as the only OS on the disk.
I wrote the Archboot x86_64 image to a USB ...
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Boot - How does unix or linux boot?
How does the linux bootup process work? What is the file that is executed by the machine first to initialize all files and folders, like android, android use manifest for initializing?
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Installing GRUB from scratch
I am trying to make a scratch linux installation on a PC board that has an x86 processor running on it. It also has a compact flash drive on it to which I have copied my compiled kernel image. The ...
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How is a Linux kernel capable of accessing its assigned initramfs/initrd?
I'm trying to understand the boot process of a machine as a whole from the time you hit the power button. There's this one piece from bootloader to initramfs stage I don't quite understand among some ...
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Which Bootloader is Used on a Chromebook?
I installed ChrUbuntu on an Acer C7 Chromebook, and I am able to dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 and ChromeOS and to control which OS loads by default. I tried to edit the /etc/default/grub file and did run ...
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Debian boots on one Mac but not another
I'm trying to boot Debian from a USB Hard Drive (using rEFIt as a boot loader), and am successful on two newer-model MacBook Pros and a Hackintosh (no surprise there), but I'm not successful on ...
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How can Linux detect automatically if kernel must boot on dev hdc or hda
I have an industrial PC mounting Linux.
These PC is delivered in two version, each with slightly different internal board and depending on the board type the disk inside the PC is see as hda or hdc.
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Chain loading kernel without a boot loader
I am working on an embedded project that will do in-place upgrades. There may come a time when an upgrade will need to reinstall everything. Since this is a pretty risky thing, I would like to have ...
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Copy live CD to RAM on boot
OK, so I've put together a live CD which uses isolinux as the bootloader. Any idea what magical option or switch I need to use to make it copy the compressed filesystem to RAM before mounting it? (Not ...
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ElementaryOS does not boot from USB [closed]
I downloaded Elementary from the official site. No problem with the iso. I checked the md5sum.
I used unetbootin to create a live pen. I have a pen formated with W95 FAT32, with a lot of mp3. But I ...
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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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Linux on Hard Drive Partition, Bootloader on USB Flash Drive
How can I use a USB flash drive to boot Linux from a partition on (another) hard drive?
I'm trying to install Linux on an encrypted partition on the hard drive (using LVM on LUKS).
Since /boot must ...
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How can I get GRUB to configure my screen properly?
My screen says that it can't display the stream, and to use 1680x1050@60Hz as soon as grub would be loaded. I was told by #hardware on irc.freenode.net that this was due to grub missconfiguring the ...
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Change terminal resolution on Whiite (Wii Linux)
Is there a way to change the terminal resolution in Whiite (Linux for Wii)? All the answers I can find suggest editing grub configuration, but Whiite uses a custom bootloader instead of grub.
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syslinux / vesamenu.c32 - using highest available screen resolution?
I was wondering if there was a way to use the highest available resolution in the syslinux.cfg file?
I know i can do:
MENU RESOLUTION 1024 768
but without knowing available resolutions beforehand, ...
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What is the best procedure for setting up a triple-boot system?
I have a machine that I wish to install 3 operating systems on. The systems are, in no particular order, Windows 8, Ubuntu, and Backtrack Linux. Is there some document or step-by-step guide to the ...
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Move GRUB from USB to HD
When I installed
Linux debian 2.6 and GRUB I managed to install it, the boot loader, on a usb flash drive. Right now, If the USB drive is plugged into the computer, the GRUB and the OS starts, ...
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Why do I have GRUB and GRUB2 in my boot directory?
I'm running F17 and my boot directory has grub and grub2. Why do I need both of these? I thought only one grub was required to boot. Does each one have specific properties?
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How to run a bootloader from Linux?
I want to reboot from Linux to another system (a bootable CD for my current need).
I don't want to modifiy the current bootloader, nor to modify BIOS settings.
Some Linux CD can be run from Windows ...
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CentOS grub2 booting iso via loopback
I've got a usb-key setup to multi-boot different Linux images. I'm trying to add CentOS, here's a post with similar entries for grub.cfg
set drive_label=multipass01
set isopath=/iso
menuentry ...
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Is it possible for a CentOS system on EC2 to not have a bootloader?
I'm attempting to look for grub:
[root /]# find / -iname "*grub*"
/sbin/grubby
/usr/share/man/man8/grubby.8.gz
/usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/grub.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim70/ftplugin/grub.vim
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Why is GRUB 2 booting so slowly?
I have a small custom embedded Linux distribution (created with OpenEmbedded), which boots with GRUB 1.99. The aim is to have it start up fast.
Currently it says:
GRUB loading.
for ~2+ seconds ...
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How to autoboot boot0?
How can automatically boot FreeBSD in boot0 and, when needed, manually load win by pressing a shortcut button?
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Make WinXP live USB or at least bootable USB from OpenSUSE to play Diablo 3 from that USB [closed]
I bought Diablo 3 (Windows and Mac game) and I want to play it on my notebook, but I only have OpenSUSE installed on it and I can't dual boot, because I can't backup the files and have the maximum ...
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“Missing operating system” error on boot
I replaced Windows 8 with Linux Mint. After the installation had completed, I restarted only to face a black screen with missing operating system.
I thought the problem was with Mint so I decided to ...
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Fresh Linux (Debian and CentOS) installation will not boot
I am trying to install either Debian or CentOS on a home server (Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S3). I first tried installing Debian. The whole installation was successful (including grub). But after ...
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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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Should I use LILO or GRUB or other?
I am making a netinstall DVD which will have netinstall for 10 different Linux distros on it. I will need to install a bootloader on the disk so I can choose which distro I want to install.
Which is ...
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Can you use grub to boot a RW partition file stored on a FAT32 HDD?
This is a bit tricky question. I have a Ubuntu 11.10 installed onto a USB 16GB Flash drive. I used the Ubuntu installer to do this. It runs great! Except the I/O is slow. I also have a 250GB USB ...
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How do I configure syslinux to boot immediately
I'm tweaking a Debian live system (built with live-build), and I want it to boot straight into the system from syslinux — no menu, no timeout. According to the syslinux documentation, a timeout value ...
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Prevent GRUB from showing up by default?
Whenever I boot on Ubuntu, I see the entire GRUB menu by default. Is there a way I could make it simply auto-boot if uninterrupted within X seconds? I remember that this was the case on previous ...
