The Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), on a x86 PC, is the firmware that performs the power-on self-test (POST) and initializes hardware.
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Booting from install disk, no USB keyboard
I'm trying to install Arch Linux on a new system with a Gigabyte GA-Z87N-WIFI board. Although I can use the USB keyboard (and mouse) in the BIOS, the keyboard doesn't seem to work at all once I boot ...
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Debian - Boot from USB
I currently have Debian 7.0 installed on my laptop (HP Pavilion dv9700). I would now like to install Arch instead. I wrote the Arch ISO to a USB drive, but when I start up my computer, it ...
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GRUB Black Screen Problem
A Couple days ago I bought a laptop with NVIDIA G105M and Intel Core Duo Inside which has Windows 7 default. As a Linux fan, I wanted to install Ubuntu to my laptop and I plugged in my old live USB ...
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How to get system configuration information without dmidecode
In order to collect some system configuration information, I have been using dmidecode and the related tool lshw to find the information. This works great on most machines, but I have recently got ...
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Install RHEL 5.7S on machine with 4TB disks
I'm getting errors about GPT when installing OS using kickstart.
The Dell R720 has 8x 600GB SAS. I can't figure out what to configure in BIOS and kickstart file.
In BIOS, there're boot options of ...
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Should I be worried about the output of `sgdisk /dev/sda`?
Is this output harmless? It's looking quite harmless to me, since it needs to be run with root permissions.
ehtesh@pear:~$ sgdisk -v /dev/sda
Problem opening /dev/sda for reading! Error is 13.
You ...
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Lost everything after using install-mbr
I was dual booting Windows 8 and BackTrack5 but I erased the MBR while using easyBCD. So I tried this…
sudo install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1 was the primary partition in my ...
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How to install GNU/Linux on a Windows PC without the BIOS password?
I want to install a GNU/Linux based operating system on a computer with Windows preinstalled, but unfortunately, the BIOS is set to only boot from the harddisk, and there is no way to boot from ...
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How to enable Virtualization AMD-V Aspire one AO725 from BIOS or otherwise
I'm try to use the virtualbox to visualizer the system of 64bits but the error that get is:
La aceleración VT-x/AMD-V ha sido habilitada, pero no es funcional. Su sistema invitado de 64-bit fallára ...
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Why is USB not working in Linux when it works in UEFI/BIOS?
For background I have just built a new machine with modern hardware including:
AMD FX-8350
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard
16GB RAM
NVidia GTX 650 Ti
Kingston SSD
Given that, I tried to install ...
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How to turn off DELL BIOS beeping through Ubuntu?
I removed my LCD with Inverter, because it was broken. I'm using a Inspiron 4050 with a HDMI or VGA connected at TV, but the BIOS beeps(8times) continuos for ever and ever.
There is a way to control ...
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How to correctly configure Debian watchdog daemon for BIOS Watch Dog?
Supermicro main boards contain a BIOS feature named "Watch Dog Function". Having Debian 6.0.6 with kernel "Linux debian 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP" we did:
Change BIOS "Watch Dog Function" from Disabled ...
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booting qemu/kvm directly from a file system
Having used Xen and its pygrub for a while, I'm now trying to do something similar with KVM/qemu.
Basically, I have a LVM logical volume (though that could as well be a file) that contains the root ...
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How can I tell if I have a bug with my kernel or with my UEFI firmware?
I have a dz77ga-70k motherboard with version 0049 of the Intel firmware on it. Linux and elilo will not boot in uefi mode. The symptoms are that when I run bzImage.efi initrd=initrd.img ro debug ...
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How do I install openSUSE 12.1 from an external hard disk?
For some reason, my laptop (HP ProBook 5320m) refuses to boot when I install the ISO images for openSUSE 12.1 on an USB stick (the stick starts to blink and then the internal fan goes into overdrive ...
