Bootloader issues: what happens before the operating system itself starts.
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terminal-only boot of CentOS 7 from USB boot stick?
How can I trigger a command line only boot of CentOS 7 from a USB boot stick? The gnome boot is failing due to the fact that the standard download of the iso file does not contain the right driver ...
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OpenIndiana installation hangs with unsupported PCIe card in
I'm trying to install OpenIndiana (taken from http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/151a8/oi-dev-151a8-live-x86.iso or server version http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/151a8/oi-dev-151a8-text-x86.iso) on a ...
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Load root partition on embedded linux system
I'm using a zynq-7000 SoC, running a custom petalinux build, which is on an SD card. The boot partition contains a boot.bin (the bootloaders etc) and an image (containing the kernel). The root ...
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RAID boot drive not found after mdadm upgrade
I was having trouble getting a new RAID array to assemble on startup, and before anyone responded to that post, I tried updating mdadm, but this ended up taking a very long time because of all the ...
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centos 7 dual boot with windows 8.1
How do I install CentOS 7 alongside Windows 8.1 to create a dual boot machine?
I did this easily enough on a Windows 7 machine using pendrivelinux. But that approach is resulting in a failure to ...
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Hanging Mint 17 boot
I'm currently trying to fix my boot that's hanging at the operations
"Starting Nvidia Persistence Daemon
Starting Nvidia Persistence Daemon
Stopping Nvidia Prime Power Saving Mode
Starting mount ...
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Boot failure: no errors, but I can't access the shell
I just installed a new RAID 1 array as /dev/md2 to a server. It mounted correctly and I was able to read/write. I edited fstab and rebooted, but was unable to ssh in. I then plugged in a keyboard and ...
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Oversized - yet working - kernel module [on hold]
I've got a problem with an oversized kernel module. I built Linux 3.4.x for an Android arm device (Linux 3.4.4, with Gcc 5.1 and SaberMod Toolchain) and I had to replace the default wlan.ko with the ...
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saving file to usb stick while using linux boot stick
I am using the instructions in this youtube video to install CentOS 7 on a new computer that is running Windows 8. The tutorial uses UniversalUSBInstaller from PenDriveLinux, but the installation is ...
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HDMI non responsive after boot
I have a QNAP NAS-269G with Ubuntu 12.11 Server installed on it. When I plug a monitor to it via HDMI it shows the entire boot process. Then when the log in prompt should normally show the screen goes ...
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Elementary OS - Locked Boot
Please go easy on me and assist me. I am more than willing to provide the information you require, please just give me pointers.
I have built my own personal gaming computer recently and have faced ...
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SquashFS+UnionFS as root filesystem?
What's an easy way to to use a union filesystem (read-only SquashFS + R/W overlay) as /? I'm thinking of using a custom boot script as the kernel init= argument. The script would mount the SquashFS + ...
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Startup problem: invalid partition table or use UEFI BOOT
I'm working on a Dell Latitude E5430. Recently I booted pcbsd from USB using this file:
PCBSD10.1.1-RELEASE-01-31-2015-x64-DVD-USB_0.iso
But I guess I did something wrong. I was trying to install ...
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How to boot Linux Mint from a CD
I want to boot Linux Mint from a CD but when I boot from the CD, all i get is a GRUB window where i can select to boot Linux Mint. I clicked to boot Linux and i get a screen with error cant read ...
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restoring grub mint 17
I'm currently trying to get my Mint 17 partition booting again.
I tried to fix a booting problem with boot-repair and a live USB, but upon inputting the command
sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sda7"
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how to make GRUB find modules on multiboot Linux LiveUSB?
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(skip to header=problem if you're expert on LiveUSBs, ISOs, GRUB2, etc)
I'm setting up a multiboot/multiISO Linux LiveUSB as detailed here, which I intend for use on multiple hosts (i.e., ...
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Expanding root partition CentOS 6 With using fdisk
I am trying to expand the root partition on a VM which is not using LVM and I do not have (nor want to try and create then use) a disk to boot from. As such I followed what I felt was the logical ...
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Difference in execution of init with embedded vs. external initramfs?
I'm building a very minimal linux system that just consists of the kernel (v4.1-rc5) and an initramfs populated with busybox (v1.23.2). It works fine for the most part, but
I observe a difference in ...
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How to boot from USB on Debian?
So I did a minimal install of debian jessie (without X) and now I am trying to boot linux mint USB install which I made with Unetbootin. It doesn't boot the install and pressing F12 only gives me BIOS ...
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fresh centos 7.1 install continually boots into “emergency mode”
I installed centos 7.1 on bare metal (dual boot with windows), with encrypted disk. Installed a few things (oracle java) and did a full yum update
Now the system keeps booting to a console emergency ...
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Debian jessie without desktop
So, I installed debian Jessie on my computer. And it does not have any desktop. I have used numerous of different commands but it just say cannot be found. Thanks for the help. EDIT! One way to fix ...
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Arch very long boot-time after kernel downgrade
I just downgraded my arch kernel from 4.x to 3.17.x for the sake of being able to use shared folders feature in vmware.
Right now, everything is fine and it boots up too. But boot-time has greatly ...
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how to make LVMs at available boot? kernel panic - dracut cannot find logical volumes after kernel upgrade in CentOS 6.6
I have a centoOS 6.6 vmware vm that I ran yum update on which upgraded the kernel
after reboot, I started getting this:
dracut Warning: No root device "block:/dev/vg_myhost/lv_root" found
dracut ...
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What is the systemd equvalent to sysvinit 'X-Start-Before'?
Quoted from https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts.
X-Start-Before: boot_facility_1 [boot_facility_2...]
X-Stop-After: boot_facility_1 [boot_facility_2...]
provide reverse dependencies, ...
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Dual Booting Windows 7 & Ubuntu [migrated]
So I had a dual boot, on separate drives, for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Windows 7 Pro (all 64bit). My Windows install had come first, and then Ubuntu. This was a year or so ago. The other day I felt it was ...
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CentOS 7 - while installing i set disk encrypted with password, but on reboot always it asking password
While installing CentOS 7, i put password for disk encrypt. Now while working remotely on that machine and doing reboot it always ask password to be inserted on-site.
Is this normal? or there is a ...
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help needed with elementary OS dual boot with windows 7
previously my laptop was having two partition, C and D. On C:\ i had windows 7 install. I wanted to make a dual boot system with Elementary OS Freya. Hence i made a separate 6 GB EXT3 partition ...
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Filesystems not mounting on boot?
I'm getting this error after rebooting:
Scanning for Btrfs filesystems
* Stopping Read required files in advance [ OK ]
* Starting Mount filesystems on boot ...
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Arch hangs before opening login screen
I tried installing gummiboot, and I eventually got it to work, but now Arch can't boot into X--the last few messages I get are about it stopping Plymouth and preparing to open Gnome Display Manager, ...
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Sound Problem in ubuntu startup
When Ubuntu boots first time, no sound comes out of speakers. But when I insert any headphone the sound is OK. also when I insert headphone first time and eject it from laptop then sound comes fine ...
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ignore failing, non-OS drives?
Context:
Remotely located machine with desktop ubuntu 12.04, 2 data drives, 1 OS drive, all specified in /etc/fstab.
Issue:
During boot one SATA data drive does not respond,
and machine will not ...
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Filesystem check or mount failed on elementaryOS Freya
I had to move to a temporary workspace for a short time which runs on very bad hardwares, so I bought an SSD trying to speed it up.
Now, I have installed elementaryOS Freya and my development ...
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“Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block” and “LZMA data is corrupt”
I recently bought a new computer and I am experiencing problems while trying to install Linux.
Things I have tried:
A variety of distributions:
Ubuntu;
Elementary OS;
Crunchbang++;
Manjaro; and
...
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Can you uncompress a btrfs filesystem?
I found out that you can compress the whole of a Btrfs filesystem by defragmenting it with -clzo or -czlib, but is it possible to uncompress it again? I'm asking because I managed to stop my system ...
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What can cause GRUB2 to suddenly not be recognized by EFI?
I have two hard drives in my PC. The first one contains an ext4 partition with Debian, a swap partition and the EFI partition for Debian. The second hard drive contains Win8 and it's EFI partition.
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How to clean up bootloaders & UEFI entries from other installs?
I got a new Windows laptop, and I wanted to dual boot with Linux. I installed Fedora, before changing my mind and going back to Mint. I'd like to keep Win 8.1 and Mint.
However, now my UEFI boot menu ...
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How do I to dual boot Kali and Backtrack?
I have backtrack 5 r3 installed on my laptop which has 60 gb single hard disk.
my backtrack is fully set up and takes the full 60gb space. Now I want to keep the same backtrack with all my settings ...
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Script requesting information upon boot
The idea is to create a script that runs as root upon boot (either before a potential X or GDM starts or after).
The challenge is that this script needs input from "the one at the keyboard" - without ...
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NFS root filesystem doesn't mount at boot
This is an embedded device with a custom kernel (see below for relevant config). It's an x86-32 machine booting like this: coreboot->uboot->linux. I can mount the NFS share in linux if I use ...
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systemd waiting too long for network at Debian 8.0 Jessie's boot
My system has booted up relatively fast while run Debian 7 Wheezy, but after upgrade to Debian 8 Jessie, and therefore SysVinit to systemd, it became a way, way slower.
The thing, slowing down the ...
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memtest86+ doesn't show up in grub
According to my package manager memtest is installed and both memtest68+.elf and memtest86+.bin are in my boot partition yet grub doesn't give me the option to boot to them. Is there anyway to add the ...
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Debian change runlevel during boot
I've read lots and understand changing runlevel defaults and during runtime, but how can I change runlevel during the boot up of a Debian server?
Background: XenServer virtual machine Debian Server. ...
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Writing openSUSE image to SD card
I am releatively new to linux and I have assembled a raspberry PI 2 model B and I'm relavively unexperience with linux. I have tinkered in the past with SUSE and want to start doing it again. I have ...
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RHEL not booting with the updated kernel after upgrade [closed]
We have recently upgraded RHEL boxes, but the system only booted with the old kernel. Observation is that there is no link /etc/grub.conf to /boot/grub/grub.conf. Now, to boot the system with the new ...
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How to distinguish if a systemd unit is run by apt-get or during boot?
Can one somehow distinguish if,
a) the daemon was started during boot or,
b) (re)started by an apt-get install or upgrade?
Can this be distinguished from within the daemon itself?
The use case is ...
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How to use GRUB from a USB drive to boot any OS that is on the HDD?
I got two operating systems on my laptop(Win 8.1 and Kali), but i updated from win 7 and deleted the boot record. To be honest i don't want Grub on my HDD, i like booting directly into windows. My ...
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debian services not running
After an unexpected restart my debian machine is booting up to a terminal screen instead of gui.
I'm not sure what to do to diagnose the problem.. but I've noticed that all of the services in ...
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Why does Linux hang up at turn on?
I persuade my wife to use Linux (Fedora 20) on her laptop by claiming, among the other reasons, that it boots up at power on much faster than Windoze. Lately however it tends to hang up sometimes, ...
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Unable to delete boot entries using efibootmgr
This used to work in the past but since recently deleting entries with
efibootmgr fails with return value 15. Changing the boot order fails as
well. However, creating new entries does succeed, ...
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Debian 8 KVM Guest - Loading initial ramdisk
I have updated my KVM management script for Ubuntu 14.04 KVM hosts to support debian 8 guests. After a manual installation (preseed script does not work yet), I am stuck with the the following message ...
