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Making a bootable pendrive for custom kernel
I read the tutorials to make a mimalistic custom kernel from here and am able to boot it up as explained in the tutorial over a virtual machine using GRUB as the boot loader.
I think it would be more ...
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Problems with booting with Kubuntu 13.04 / Windows 7 Dual boot
So I've had Kubuntu running on my Lenovo laptop as the only operating system for most of the summer. Earlier this week, I decided to shrink the home partition in order to add a Windows 7 partition.
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Arch Linux Live USB no longer booting UEFI
My Lenovo laptop is running Arch Linux with a UEFI GPT partition table. One day I powered up my laptop, but couldn't get passed the Lenovo boot screen. I used a USB stick to boot up and reinstall ...
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Stuck on installing grub to a usb stick (unknown filesystem/no such partition)
I just spend all day on trying to get my system to boot again, I'm getting a bit desperate...snif. The setup is as follows:
a debian installed in a luks encrypted usb hard disk with lvm volumes for ...
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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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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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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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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 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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“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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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 ...
