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How to make RHEL Workstation to boots up faster?
I am using RHEL 6.4.
Problem is it takes too much time to boots up?
Can you say, what can I do to be out of this situation?
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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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RHEL Installation issue with UEFI
I have bought a new Desktop HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF. It came with Windows 7 Pro installed.
Now I want to install Linux (RHEL) by dual booting it.
I have successfully shrieked the partition and ...
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Starting Udev hangs at boot
We have One SuperMicro server and on that we installed RHEL 5.6 64 bit but after installation it hangs at STARTING UDEV .
Any ideas what is stopping it to start and proceed.
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Is there a way to view the console output instead of boot logo, while my RHEL 6.2 machine boots up?
My company provided laptop has RHEL6.2, with lot of programs to start up automatically, which makes the boot up process slow.
While the machine boots up, there is the boring RHEL logo on the screen ...
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Can readahead-services be safely disabled?
I am just going through the service-list of a server (CentOS 5) - the question will probably apply to other RedHat, Fedora, ... versions, too.
Note that my servers normally run in runlevel 3 (no GUI ...
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Fix fstab to prevent boot failure
How can I fix fstab to prevent boot failure?
It seems that I have added incorrect record to /etc/fstab:
//servername/share /mnt/share cifs defaults,username=myuser 0 0
When I did ...
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Trouble booting CentOS
I switched from an Ubuntu to the CentOS yesterday. But it seems I have messed my installation somehow, since OS will only start correctly if the USB with the installation is plugged in.
Long story: ...
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How does setting the Setuid bit affect shell scripts that run on boot of the system, before any login has occurred?
Would enabling the setuid bit on a shell script make a difference at all when that script is run on boot? Who would the effective user be?
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How to set global environment variables at boot through a script, and have them available for an application that runs before login?
I have a service that runs at boot, and in that service it calls a bash script in the background that exports some environment variables. The problem I'm having is that those environment variables ...
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“Short read block” error trying to boot RHEL
I changed my network configurations from static IP to DHCP and removed the DNS entry, etc.
Then I rebooted the computer, but am now unable to boot, I get an error message along the lines of "short ...
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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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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 ...
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How can I avoid “Run fsck manually” messages while allowing experimenting with system time changes?
I'm working with a system where we want to allow users to play around with the date and time if they want, and where reboots may happen arbitrarily. This is fine, except for one thing: if there's a ...
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Startup log file for RHEL?
When I start up my Red Hat box I see a progress meter in the center of the screen that has a button that says "Show Details...". When I click on this button, I see a console like screen that shows ...
