Bootloader issues: what happens before the operating system itself starts.
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Problem after reparing GRUB2 [on hold]
I tried to repair GRUB2 using boot-repair.
I cannot possibly install any OS on my computer on account of the fact that the installer wouldn't install GRUB2 - even though I repaired it.
Now, whenever ...
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How can I dual boot 2 linux distros Keeping One as my primary and constantly change the second?
I would like to Dual boot my secondary laptop. I want to keep one Linux Distro (Lets take Ubuntu..!) as my daily driver and try out different distros like Linux Mint, Fedora, Manjaro....etc. How can ...
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Why does the linux kernel (3.4.1) compiled by myself hang on “Unpacking initramfs” but succeed with more RAM?
I am trying to replace the linux kernel in Debian7.11 with a new one of version 3.4.1(the original one is 3.2.0) for experimental environment using Parallels Desktop. I configured the new kernel with ...
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No login screen after “start update utmp about system runlevel changes” in Kali Linux
I upgraded my system and perhaps I couldn't install graphics driver correctly.
My system then onwards couldn't reach the login screen in any of the kernels installed in my system.
I have attached the ...
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How to make grub manual boot to ubuntu permanent?
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my Asus X552C. The system had a Windows but I completely erased everything and repartitioned it, here's the partition details:
`...
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Laptop booting very slow
my Laptop (ASUS K53BR) is booting very slow, testet on many distros (ubuntu, antergos, xubuntu, and now Cub Linux). I have changed the HDD to an SSD that is (when the system is finaly started up) fast....
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(Solved) Welcome to emergency mode error
I have LinuxMint 18 KDE as my main OS. I wanted to try Zorin OS 12 on another partition, like I had many times before. And so I did, but, when I tried to get to LM, I get welcomed by the emergency ...
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Kali installation problem UUID
I installed Kali on a partition and am trying to load it using gummiboot from a different partition.
Gummiboot finds linux and starts to load it. Startup then throws a series of errors about a ...
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SLES checking file systems… stuck at boot after reboot
After reboot the boot is stuck on a SLES machine.
Already tried a "touch /forcefsck" from a livecd to force fsck at boot, but it didn't help, still the same. Also fsck'ed rootlv from livecd.
Q: ...
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why .config file doesn't appear in /boot after installation kernel 4.8.8
I've already seen this Why is the .config file not copied to /boot after installing new kernel? but the question weren't answered !
I've installed the new kernel and everything seems to be running ...
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Debian 8.2 need reboot to have network
I have Debian 8.2 installed on a headless PC - no screen, no mouse, no keyboard, which I use as a backup server. So the only way to access it is through the (wired) network.
When I power-up the PC I ...
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How to run shell commands at startup [closed]
I am using openwrt on my board. At startup, I need to run command for taking serial data and send it to an IP. The command is:
socat FILE:/dev/ttyUSB2,b57600,raw,crnl, TCP:192.168.1.1:5001
How do I ...
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Qubes clobbered my boot, how can I re-enable efi booting?
I have a "test all the operating systems"-laptop which was running Windows and Ubuntu MATE, with rEFInd used as boot manager.
Yesterday I installed Qubes on the last third of the drive. I've since ...
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Debian fails to prompt for encrypted disk password on boot
I am using Debian Scratch with encrypted root partition. The last kernel version where it worked was 4.6.0. For kernels 4.7.0 and 4.8.0 it prints on the boot repeatedly and forever following messages:
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Failed to connect to server through PXE
Cannot connect client to server (see attach.)
in a few minutes got message "DHCP received no offers!".
this is my dhcp.conf on server
#
# Sample configuration file for ISC dhcpd for Debian
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# ...
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Removing the Windows plague from boot options on openSUSE
I was on Windows 10 for a while, decided to move to openSUSE, I thought I had my HDD, I installed openSUSE, everything is working fine but when I start my PC the only way to load my OS is to spam F9(...
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U-Boot : boot without reloading DTB
I'm using U-Boot on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module. The boot process is :
RPi firmware --> U-Boot --> Linux
I'm setting up some things about devices in the config.txt, that is used by the RPi firmware....
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Triple boot Windows 10, Ubuntu 16.04, Kali 2016.2
I read a lot in the web but I had an unknown situation: I had Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 installed properly on my pc based on UEFI. I had install Kali for reasons of university studies, so I ...
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How to mount multiple folders uboot bootargs
I am trying to netboot a root file system of another linux. In this linux i have harcoded IP and MAC.
Its necessary to mount a specific /etc/network/interface.
After load kernel with tftp, i use
set ...
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Create windows bootable USB installer fails for unknown reason
I have fedora 24, a USB drive, windows 7 x64 iso file, and a valid product key. How can I create a bootable USB install media?
I have tried several things, none successful. I have followed this ...
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The rebooting proccess stuck on a certain unknown image
I installed successfully Ubuntu Gnome on my MBP 2012 in dual-booting. When I restart my computer, the proccess of rebooting stuck on the following page. How could I force the proccess to access my OS?
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Install FreeBSD from usb onto usb (Root on ZFS)
I'm trying to install Freebsd on a usb stick with root on ZFS. I have FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img written to an other usb stick.
When I try to install it with zfs the installer doesn't ...
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Requirements needed for TFT touch interfacing?
What is required in order to interface touchscreen FT5X06 to the kontron board? Which file do I need to edit: config file or device tree file? Please help...
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Cent OS 7 MTA:SA Game Server Auto Start on boot
Centos 7.2
Multi Theft Auto 1.5.3 Linux Server
This Game server runs fine.
I would like to know how to best auto start this game server for 24/7 operation on all occasions of server startup/reboot/...
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Debian drive keeps corrupting
After logging in to my Debian machine, I just get a black screen. When going to tty1 I see "xset unable to open display". When I next reboot, I get into initramfs because of some bad blocks om /dev/...
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fedora 24 external HD did not boot anymore
I have a extern HD with a fedora 24 installation. If I try to start from that device I get the grub start screen and can select a list of several kernels, but none of them did start. After pressing ...
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Linux mint 18 booting on blank screen
So this issue is related to the latest kernel update I assume. I installed the latest kernel update today, and soon after I wanted to lock my session. Instead of the locked screen, I had an error ...
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How to specify an alternative root file system at boot time
I had some problem with the default rootfs and always writing out kernel panic. I want to fixed it in the kernel, so I tried many ways to solve this problem. I had base idea to fix , that is before ...
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Re-recognize a harddisk in a Sharkoon Quickport Duo II after boot
I'm running Debian 8.6. The Sharkoon box is connected via e-sata cable. The harddisk I want to access holds an lvm2 logical volume [which was created with a different machine, also debian 8.6].
My ...
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yocto project development
I am try to boot the core image sato, but during the boot it shows the error message uimage is not an fdt reset the board to recover. I reset the smarc samx6i kontron board but the same error is shown ...
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How do I create a bootable GPT UEFI Linux disk?
Aaargh. After days of reading and trying everything I'm still stuck in a maze. It should be simple but I cannot work it out.
I need to create one bootable UEFI disk partition that contains all the ...
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Possibility to boot from a Windows on a partition moved with clonezilla
Is it possible to move a windows to a partition to the end of a 1TB hd with clonezilla, then remove sda1 to get a SATA connection free (to use for a SSD later).
My sda is now 500GB original delivered ...
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Grub doesn't see Windows 10
I don't know if exactly same question has been asked and if answer to it would work for me. My grub doesn't see Windows 10 and it see Windows 8 instead. I tried booting into "Windows 8 (loader)" and "...
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Adding windows boot record to Grub
I am trying to get windows to appear in my grub options so I can bot into it.
Here is my drive below.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sda ...
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How save password after reboot? [closed]
I have two filesystem in linux.
When start Odroid.
Initramfs for boot and root ramfs.
When i do passwd and create new password, after reboot my password not save.
How can i save my password after ...
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Boot Linux from Linux on embedded board
I'd like to know, is there a way to boot a new Linux system, from a Linux ?
Let me explain : I want to keep 2 systems separated on an embedded board. One system is used to perform tasks at the ...
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Grub2/UEFI dual boot with two hard drives
I have 2 hard drives a 256 GB SSD and a 2TB HDD, that I used to have setup with Windows 10 on the SSD and 1.5TB of the HDD as a windows data drive. This worked great until I tried to install fedora ...
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Cannot boot into system on sda2
I had a dual-boot system of Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux mint 18. From grub I used to be able to choose Ubuntu, or Linux mint 18 on sda2. Recently, I deleted the Ubuntu partition, which was on sda3, but now ...
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Antergos Install
I have always had trouble installing Antergos.
One time, after messing around for days, the installer completed and I was able to have Antergos on my system.
Now I have an SSD and I want to transfer ...
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Puppy linux not detecting keyboard on save selection
I've recently installed Puppy Linux as a lightweight alternative to a full Ubuntu install (for recovery etc. when things go wrong). It's been working well, except for when I created a second save ...
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Can I format a boot partition if I have more than one?
I'm running Arch Linux on my PC with a separate boot partition. Recently I installed Linux Mint which required installing a boot-loader so I installed it on an empty partition. My system now uses the ...
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Unable to dual boot FreeBSD alongside Arch Linux with Grub2
My disk partition scheme, as seen by Grub, is as follows:
hd0,gpt1: EFI system
hd0,gpt2: Linux Swap
hd0,gpt3: Linux Filesystem
hd0,gpt4: FreeBSD UFS`
The install process of FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE ...
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Black screen when booting ArchLinux from USB stick on Chromebook R11
I've recently got an Acer Chromebook R11 cyan and I would like to be able to boot ArchLinux from it. For now I would like to boot from an USB drive.
I made a pretty classic ArchLinux installation on ...
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Can't get anything to boot (dropped into grub rescue)
I'm trying to boot Manjaro from a Live CD I've created with k3b. The thing is when I insert the DVD and select the boot option from the BIOS, the following message appears:
error: no such device: (a ...
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LFS Linux kernel won't boot - black screen
I've recently completed an LFS build using GRUB-2.03~beta, and
I've installed this using UEFI. When I boot linux however, I'm greeted
with a black screen. I'm unsure how to debug this as the kernel ...
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A start job is running for dev-disk by \x2duuid : error take 1min 30s to boot Debian
I have multiboot Debian with others Unix/linux distro. During the boot process ,i get the following error:
A start job is running for dev-disk by \x2duuid-.....1min:30 s
Dependencies failed for swap
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Playing an audio file from a script that is run from and xboxdrv event which is loaded on system boot
As the title says I am trying to play an audio file from a script that is run when I press "Y" on my Xbox controller. The Xbox contoller script is run during system start up. Here's the thing... It ...
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Unable to select an item in the “Excluded from boot priority order” list in order to install debian on a new pc
I'm trying to install linux (debian) on a laptop bought second hand, a Lenovo thinkpad T440p, it had a HD with windows installed and everything worked fine, including all USB port.
I replaced the HD ...
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How to reduce the boot time of a beaglebone using systemd
I'm currently trying to reduce the time it takes to boot my beaglebone green and start a python script. My simple python script just turns on a relay on a cape.
I'm using the time it takes for the ...
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RHEL 7 does not boot well, but still accessible
My RHEL 7 stops here:
Never proceeds from here. Interestingly, I can still access this machine via SSH from another machine. I can even send a reboot signal. Any suggestion?
