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Installing Grub (2) on a USB flash drive
MultiBootISOs is a tool that let you install Grub on a USB flash drive. I really like it because it lets me boot from ISO files and let me put a bunch of ISOs on my USB and choose which one to boot.
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FreeNAS grub2 booting ISO
I've got usb-keys setup to multi-boot different Linux images. I wouldn't mind adding FreeNAS, and there's a doc with samples to add to grub.cfg
menuentry "FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64" {
insmod ufs2
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Please explain Linux boot sequence in detail
I am preparing a document in detail showing light on the boot sequence of Linux right from pressing of Power-on button the host to the login prompt appearance.
It would be great if we could combine ...
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GRUB on USB Drive — adding OSes
Some Background:
Coming from a largely Windows background (though I'm familiar with Ubuntu, etc.) and using a Windows 7 machine to complete this task
Have gotten GRUB installed successfully to the ...
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bootstrapping a DSL installation onto a machine with no bios boot support
I have a vintage 2001 laptop (Vaio R505) which is very hardware limited. Fortunately there is much that works, but I can't figure how to make it work better. The two biggest constraints are 256MB RAM ...
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Ignorantly dd'd /dev/sda*
I was trying to write an iso to a flash drive. I mistakenly thought that all /dev/sda* are flash drives attached to the system. I wasn't sure how to figure out which was which, so I just unplugged my ...
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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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Running one OS per core
I'm interested in using a COTS board like the Wandboard for a project. On one hand I'd like to use something like Ubuntu for user interaction, sounds, TCP/IP stuff, etc. But I also need an RTOS like ...
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How to create yaboot partition using a ppc Mac
My computer g4 1.5 ghz PowerBook ppc
I need to use this computer to make a yaboot partition on a USB stick.
Here is documentation for making a yaboot partition with a Linux machine:
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Getting “NTFS5: No ang0” error message when booting Linux Mint
I am getting the following message as shown in the link below when trying to boot into linux mint 13.
Try (hd0,0): NFTS5: No ang0
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5: No ang0
Try (hd0,2): NTFS5: No ang0
Try ...
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How is a Linux kernel capable of accessing its assigned initramfs/initrd?
I'm trying to understand the boot process of a machine as a whole from the time you hit the power button. There's this one piece from bootloader to initramfs stage I don't quite understand among some ...
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What is the “Bootable flag” option when installing a distro?
Is the "bootable flag" needed in today's distributions? If not, then Why is it still in the installers? What is it exactly?
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How do I configure syslinux to boot immediately
I'm tweaking a Debian live system (built with live-build), and I want it to boot straight into the system from syslinux — no menu, no timeout. According to the syslinux documentation, a timeout value ...
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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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Is it possible for a CentOS system on EC2 to not have a bootloader?
I'm attempting to look for grub:
[root /]# find / -iname "*grub*"
/sbin/grubby
/usr/share/man/man8/grubby.8.gz
/usr/share/vim/vim70/syntax/grub.vim
/usr/share/vim/vim70/ftplugin/grub.vim
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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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How to run a bootloader from Linux?
I want to reboot from Linux to another system (a bootable CD for my current need).
I don't want to modifiy the current bootloader, nor to modify BIOS settings.
Some Linux CD can be run from Windows ...
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Grub and boot loader
What effect does setting a partition to active still have with common boot loaders. For instance if you install grub on the mbr, do you still need to specify the /boot as active, or does grub just ...
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How can Linux detect automatically if kernel must boot on dev hdc or hda
I have an industrial PC mounting Linux.
These PC is delivered in two version, each with slightly different internal board and depending on the board type the disk inside the PC is see as hda or hdc.
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Does the vmlinux header contain the length of the kernel image?
I am trying to disassemble a compound file that consists of several parts, one of which is an uncompressed kernel sandwiched between several other files. I am trying to find the exact length of the ...
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Can the grub2 bootloader replace Windows bootloader partition?
I'm dual-booting Windows and Kali Linux on my laptop, using grub2 as the bootloader.
Can I remove the partition Windows 7 creates for the bootloader? It is the 100MB partition labeled "System ...
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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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“Missing operating system” error on boot
I replaced Windows 8 with Linux Mint. After the installation had completed, I restarted only to face a black screen with missing operating system.
I thought the problem was with Mint so I decided to ...
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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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Preparing a Linux image in a virtual machine
I am trying to set up a system to prepare a Linux system on a virtual machine and then deploy it onto an SD card. The target system has an Atom processor, so there aren't architecture compatibility ...
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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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Chain loading kernel without a boot loader
I am working on an embedded project that will do in-place upgrades. There may come a time when an upgrade will need to reinstall everything. Since this is a pretty risky thing, I would like to have ...
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How can I get GRUB to configure my screen properly?
My screen says that it can't display the stream, and to use 1680x1050@60Hz as soon as grub would be loaded. I was told by #hardware on irc.freenode.net that this was due to grub missconfiguring the ...
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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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CentOS grub2 booting iso via loopback
I've got a usb-key setup to multi-boot different Linux images. I'm trying to add CentOS, here's a post with similar entries for grub.cfg
set drive_label=multipass01
set isopath=/iso
menuentry ...
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Why am I getting btx halted trying to install FreeBSD?
When trying to install FreeBSD 8 off a USB Drive (UNetBootin loaded) I receive
BTX Halted
when choosing any of the Boot options.
Boot FreeBSD [default]
Boot FreeBSD width ACPI disabled
Boot ...
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Failed to boot a fresh FreeBSD 8.2 installation on an Intel SS4200-EHW
I've installed FreeBSD on an Intel SS4200-EHW which has four hard disks and a flash DOM (Disk On Module) disk through an IDE interface. I want to install FreeBSD on the Flash DOM. In order to get the ...
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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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“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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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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Debian boots on one Mac but not another
I'm trying to boot Debian from a USB Hard Drive (using rEFIt as a boot loader), and am successful on two newer-model MacBook Pros and a Hackintosh (no surprise there), but I'm not successful on ...
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Linux on Hard Drive Partition, Bootloader on USB Flash Drive
How can I use a USB flash drive to boot Linux from a partition on (another) hard drive?
I'm trying to install Linux on an encrypted partition on the hard drive (using LVM on LUKS).
Since /boot must ...
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How to autoboot boot0?
How can automatically boot FreeBSD in boot0 and, when needed, manually load win by pressing a shortcut button?
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Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD) viewer for linux
Is there such a thing as a Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD) viewer for Linux?
I understand that BCD files are 'like registry hives' and tools exist to read registry hives for Linux.
Is there a ...
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How to fix possibly wiped MBR after centOS install?
I think I have messed this one up royally...
I have done a clean install of centOS 5.6 (x86_64) on my system. I got through the installation process successfully and rebooted. Now I am greeted with ...
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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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BTX loader manual
I Can't find any good manual/reference about BTX bootloader integrated into FreeBSD.
Especially I would like to know:
if it's functionality resembles GRUB 2. For example, if it can boot OS other ...
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How can I configure grub (or a different bootloader) to use modifier keys?
To clarify, I am wanting to dual boot Windows and a Linux distribution. I already know how to set my laptop up to do that. However, I don't want the grub menu to display on boot. I would like for it ...
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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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hack mac g4 powerbook firmware to boot linux?
Is there a way to flash/hack/jailbreak the firmware for say a 15" G4 powerbook so that I can boot from linux live usb sticks?
As it is many macs simply do not boot from usb, let alone usb sticks and ...
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GRUB File Not Read Correctly
I was installing Gentoo when I ran into problems with the bootloader. Whether I used the automatic or manual installation method, GRUB always threw the following error:
The file /boot/grub/stage1 ...
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Arch Linux fails to boot from a USB key (cannot mount selected partition)
I tried to install Arch Linux to an USB key. Things are kind of wobbly (it assumes the system has exactly one drive inside, for example) but everything installed just fine. Until I rebooted.
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Fresh Linux (Debian and CentOS) installation will not boot
I am trying to install either Debian or CentOS on a home server (Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S3). I first tried installing Debian. The whole installation was successful (including grub). But after ...
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Red Hat and Windows 7 dual boot system
I am looking for the best way to create a dual boot on my Red Hat system.
This is a Red Hat 5.3 System for scientific use, and we need to run some Windows software on it for visualization purposes.
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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 ...
