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Booting grub legacy via qemu using pxe
I have been trying to boot grub legacy via qemu using pxe. For some reason, the grub does not display the menu and enters into the command mode after displaying the following error.
Error15: File not ...
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grub error : “File not found” for separate /boot/efi partition
I've installed CentOS 6.4 on UEFI enabled machine, created /boot/efi partitions.
But my grub is not automatically starting, if I start the PC, I start in Windows 8.
I can only start CentOS by ...
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Unable to Boot into F17
I was currently running Win8 and F17 as a dual boot on my home desktop with an i5 chip and Asus UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, while I was in Win8 I accidentally removed the partition that held my F17 OS.
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Real mode and loading linux kernel confusing
As far as know, protected mode will activated in kernel and in grub stage it still real mode. My misunderstanding is: In real mode, total memory available for use is less than 1MB but how grub can ...
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How to make RHEL 6 to boot in Text-mode?
I am using RHEL 6.4 on a HP-Z620 Workstation.Whenever this machine starts up, it comes up with Graphics Mode e.g. Splash Screen,Red Hat Logo etc.
But I want my machine to start in Text Mode.
e.g. I ...
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Linux Mint on laptop fails, gives grub error
I am trying to install the latest Linux Mint onto my laptop via a USB stick. The laptop previously had Ubuntu, and it had a separate /home partition. I'm overriding and reformatting the / partition, ...
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Grub does not fit the screen
I have a problem with my grub installation. The screen is "moved" to the left a couple of pixels, which means that I cannot read the first 20 or so characters of the entries when I boot.
I'm ...
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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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Use boot parameter to perform certain actions after boot
I'm asking myself if I can use Grub 2 to tell the Operating System which actions to perform after boot.
Background:
I have a HTPC with Debian Wheezy installed. Sometimes I want to use the System as a ...
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GRUB fails to install
For the past two days, I have been attempting to install Linux Mint 14 64-bit edition.
Each time, the ubiquity installer has failed with this error:
Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed.
This ...
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Determine what program is in my MBR code
I've done a lot of partitioning / dual booting on my Macbook Pro. Right now I have Mac OS X installed along with Ubuntu 12.04, with Grub installed on the Ubuntu partition.
I am wondering - what is ...
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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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Failed to boot Grub Error Fedora 17
I had two hard disks. One is internal, 320GB, all NTFS, where Windows 7 is installed in a ~20GB partition. The other is external, 160GB, where I have installed Fedora. Now when I had installed Fedora ...
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How is GRUB able to read it's config file on ext3 fileystem?
I have read that GRUB can read ext2 filesystems and has modules for doing this. What is the location of the mod on a Redhat system and how about if the /boot partition is ext3/ext4 or other filesystem ...
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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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Complete install on RAID1 + LVM
When doing a complete install of Linux is it possible to install everything including /boot on 2 software RAID 1s (4 hdds) + LVM?
I haven't been able to figure out whether this is definitely ...
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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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after BIOS splash, will not boot, asked to select OS, but can't
I'm running Linux Mint 13 MATE 64-bit. Everything has been working for several weeks. Yesterday, when I tried to boot up my computer, after the BIOS screen flashes I reach a screen with a black ...
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Grub dual boot without countdown
Is it possible to configure grub to have a dual boot setup behaving like described below?
When turning on PC and doing nothing, the default system should start as soon as possible without waiting ...
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Fedora 17 : Cannot open font file True
Each time I login to Fedora 17, no GUI, just a console, I notice this error:
Cannot open font file True
I have followed some tutorial on web to fix this problem, but still cannot. Here some ...
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Unable to boot into any LiveCD or boot Into Grub
After rebooting from my Arch install, grub2-bios gave me a normal.mod is not found error message. I cannot rescue from Grub or boot into any LiveCD from the BIOS; for the Ubuntu Image I am just ...
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Automatically include N latest kernel versions in GRUB / GRUB2 menu on kernel upgrade
What I like about Ubuntu is that the GRUB menu always allows me to pick the latest (default) or second-latest (etc.) kernel version at boot time.
In Arch Linux, I can't do that by default. The only ...
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Multi-Distro boot DVD with SystemRescueCD 2.8.0 fails to boot the SRCD portion
I'm trying to create a multi-distro mutli-boot dvd image containing (amongst others) the SystemRescueCD iso. I'm using GRUB as the boot loader and I've managed to get most of the other ISOs booting ...
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Installing Linux on a SATA partition, with Windows installed on SSD
My computer has a SSD drive along with a SATA drive. I've installed Windows on the SSD drive (Intel) already and I would like to install Linux Mint on a partition created on the SATA hard drive. So I ...
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How can I add Mageia 2 to my YUMI MultiBoot USB Drive?
After a bit of googling I read that YUMI can handle Mageia from the Mageia forums.
Unfortunately after trying YUMI there doesn't seem to be any support for Mageia.
I asked on the official Mageia ...
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Debian restarts itself after booting with a “not responding” error
I had a stable Debian 6 install until earlier today, when some keys on my USB keyboard stopped working and my USB mouse buttons started to behave strangely. I had not installed anything new since 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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Prevent hacking the grub.conf using a 'live rescue' from a live linux iso
It happened that I had set the grub password in grub.conf. But, using a live linux iso, I was able to delete the password from the grub.conf. Please read the steps for the same mentioned in this link: ...
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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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Grub fails after install it on my macbook pro
I'm trying to install Archlinux on my macbook in dual boot mode.
I part the disk that way :
/dev/sda1 -> EFI
/dev/sda2 ->MacOS
/dev/sda3 -> /boot
/dev/sda4 -> /
/dev/sda5 -> /home
As ...
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Want Windows to boot instead of Grub
So when I turn my computer on, Grub rescue boots up. I have finally figured out how to get into Windows, but now I want to skip the step of entering the information into Grub to get into windows. How ...
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MBR is toast or at least Grub is
This started after some kernel trouble that I left alone for a while. I had miscompiled a kernel then tried to re-compile it and started to organize a list of boot options in grub for differently ...
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481 views
Boot into chroot directory leaves the root partition read-only
I am trying to make grub boot into a chroot directory /slack containing a Slackware Linux installation. This directory was created by issuing the following command:
installpkg --root /slack a/*.t?z
...
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1answer
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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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Booting a newly compiled linux kernel
I have started reading the book Essential Linux Device Drivers. I am following the process for compiling and booting into a new kernel. However I am unable to boot into the newly compiled kernel - I ...
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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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Why does Linux allow ‘init=/bin/bash’?
I recently found out that if I edit GRUB before booting and I add rw init=/bin/bash I end up with a root shell.
Being in a condition that I want to understand everything I would like to know why this ...
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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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Unable to boot the operating system
I installed Lubuntu 11.10 and it run without problems. I decided to install Ubuntu 11.10 mini instead of Lubuntu 11.10.
After the installation the operating system didn't boot. I only saw the black ...
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How do I make sure grub is only installed once?
I currently have Windows on one partition, and Ubuntu on another. I'd like to install Quimo, and possibly Mint and/or Lubuntu as well.
How do I make sure that only Ubuntu has Grub, and that the ...
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Error with grub2 installation on Backtrack 5
I installed BackTrack 5 r1 and I can't select boot option between Windows and BackTrack on start up.
How can I fix this, or how can I install grub 2?
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How to manually manage grub.cfg for Grub2?
I am setting up my system. The features of it are:
GPT partition table (not sure how important this is)
Triple boot - Gentoo, Debian and Mint.
Custom kernel (kernel git repo) shared amounst distros.
...
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1answer
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How can I boot the PC-BSD live DVD-ISO IMAGE directly via GRUB2?
Via the loopback command, GRUB2 allows to directly boot an ISO file.
Now, I've configured the according menuentry to boot the PC-BSD Live DVD ISO, but when I try to boot it, the FreeBSD bootstrap ...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf?
I have a brand new Scientific Linux 6 system, but this same question should apply to CentOS 6, RHEL6 or any RHEL6-derivative.
I see that /boot/grub contains a menu.lst as well as a grub.conf file. ...
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GRUB won't boot, live CDs either
First, my computer crashed slowly, as if all the files were being deleted, then when I tried to reboot, GRUB just didn't show up. I also tried to boot on a live CD but it doesn't work either (yes, ...
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Boot-loader to boot to an encrypted partition [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Linux boot loaders supporting full disk encryption?
I am looking for a Boot-loader which is smart enough to boot from an Encrypted partition. I want to place the kernel ...
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Does GRUB consider partition order when looking for config files?
I have a HD which has 3 partitions, in the following order:
NTFS
FAT32
FAT32 (very small)
I want to install GRUB into the MBR of the HD, and place the config files (menu.lst, etc.) into the 3rd ...
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How to completely rebuild boot partition with grub as well?
openSUSE 11.4, I have boot partition on pendrive.
The problem is when I boot computer, grub immediately shows error "file not found" (I have no clue which file) and switches to "rescue mode".
I can ...
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Linux Root Recovery
On Ubuntu 10.10 I can login as root without the root password by replacing ro quiet splash with rw init=/bin/bash. How can I secure my machine and disable this backdoor?
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Red Hat Kernel Upgrade problem
I'm using a Red Hat 4 Enterprise Linux. But, when I upgrade the kernel, an error occurred. And after, when computer is booting with new kernel (red hat enterprıse 2.6.9-100.el), I receive the ...
