This tag covers both bootloader issues (what happens before the operating system starts) and the starting up of the operating system.
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Run autostart program in a terminal instead of having it run hidden in background
I have added to sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
the line:
python /path/to/script.py
This launches script.py on boot. Which is what I want. However, I can't see the output from ...
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How to block loading kernel module only in single user boot when blacklist fails?
On a "Linux debian 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP" installation where loading a kernel module (mpt2sas) is desired to be delayed to be loaded after starting sshd and users can remotely login, the mpt2sas ...
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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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Booting Ubuntu from usb on a Mac
I have a Macbook pro (late 2009) running OSX 10.6.8. I want to partition a flash drive and install my Ubuntu iso image onto it. Then I want to boot up from it by (restarting my computer and) holding ...
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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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Plymouth fails to start on boot [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Fedora 17 Freezes on Boot
On boot I get this error:
[FAILED] Failed to start Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit.
When I check what systemctl status ...
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Copy live CD to RAM on boot
OK, so I've put together a live CD which uses isolinux as the bootloader. Any idea what magical option or switch I need to use to make it copy the compressed filesystem to RAM before mounting it? (Not ...
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SquashFS image as rootfs in LXC
Is it possible to use a SquashFS filesystem as an LXC rootfs? I can mount an ext3 image as a rootfs just by setting lxc.rootfs to the filename, but if it's any other type of image, lxc-start just says ...
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Modify /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart before boot
I have some parameters that I would like to change in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart, before it is run. I get the parameters from a grep command. I would like to feed them to the autostart file but ...
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Can I make low-level changes on a root fs mounted RO?
Related to this question: having a root file system that had to be mounted read-only (say it's completely broken), can I reformat the partition or dd a older backup image on top of it (and then ...
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Where is fsck startet for the root filesystem at boot?
I want to extend an existing Debian 6.0 system so that it is able to automatically fix a corrupt root file system by restoring a separate image. That process should start automatically instead of the ...
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Slow boot, how to program fsck to run like a cron job?
Sometimes my web server crashes, and it may take hours to boot. I've been told fsck might be the culprit, because it can only be run during boot, only runs after X days and Y mounts, and if the server ...
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Running google cloudprint on boot
I use this Python script on my Debian based Guru Plug to make it work as a print server for Google Cloudprint. With this I can print from my Android devices using apps like PrinterShare or Cloud ...
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How to skip/exclude one SCSI bus from scanning during boot?
A "Linux debian 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux" system has at least 5 SCSI hosts:
root@debian:~# ls /sys/class/scsi_host
host0 host1 host2 host3 host4
...
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How to start java application after machine reboot?
I'm wondering if there is easier way to start java application (just tomcat server) after machine has been rebooted?
Possible answers:
Add the application as a service and then add it using ...
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Can't boot Scientific Linux [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Cannot boot Linux Mint after installing Windows (First) and Linux Mint (Second)
I have installed Scientific Linux on my Asus laptop where I already have installed ...
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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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Changing service startup order
I use wpa_supplicant to configure the wireless connection. Now I have a problem in that the network service starts before wpa_supplicant so this happens:
Bringing up interface wlan0:
Determining IP ...
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Why does X11 on Fedora 16 rely on non-boot device for startup?
I have recently had an incident in which my /var/mail/spool/ file grew to the size of 32G (yes, that is gigabytes), completely filling its system partition (/dev/sda2) and most of what I saw inside ...
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What mode of memory at the time linux kernel was loaded?
Can anyone tell me what the memory mode is at the time linux kernel is loaded (by bootloader)? As this link says, the memory mode is real mode then the linux kernel will ask user to choose video mode ...
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How to change Grub 2 default permanently?
Fedora now uses Grub 2. Whenever it does a kernel upgrade, it loses my default boot option (Windows). How can I fix this?
I resent Grub 2 over this, because the old Grub respected my choices.
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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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Why do iptables rules disappear when restarting my Debian system?
I add this rule:
sudo iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d a.b.c.d -p tcp \
--dport 1723 -j DNAT --to-destination a.b.c.d:10000
When restart computer rules are deleted. Why?
What I can do to make ...
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Fedora 17 Freezes on Boot
I have been having issues with Fedora 17 not booting after the latest round of updates. I am able to enter the pass for my disk encryption, the boot logo acts normally but after the animation is ...
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Linux usb Boot results in black screen
I'm trying to install Linux alongside Windows 8 on my new Asus Zenbook UX32VD, which has both an Intel HD 4000 and a NVidia 620M
I've been having quite a few problems booting up linux via USB so I ...
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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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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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Fedora 17 not booting
I just got GRUB to properly set the resolution, thanks to this wonderful answer. After selecting Fedora 17 and waiting a bit, this displays:
[ 0.752888] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ...
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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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Why does a graphical install show my boot option, but a textual install not?
I have a system to install SLES 11 on, via a serial console. As this procedure is likely to be executed across multiple systems, I want to automate the whole process. As such, I first did a manual ...
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Fedora gives me a list of fedora installs at boot time
The following happens when I start up Fedora, I've installed it on VirtualBox, how can I stop it from doing this? Both of them take me to same installation of Fedora, I have no clue on how this ...
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Ubuntu doesn't boot normally after manual installing of X.org
I tried to compile and install X.org (for a single card/multiseat in this tutorial) by getting source from here and installing it by:
./configure --enable-kdrive --enable-xephyr --enable-xfake ...
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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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Format disk through rootfs terminal
I've got into a strange situation (because of my own stupidity of course:-)). I kept failing to install Chakra Linux from Live USB, so I was thinking that the reason could be that I created the Live ...
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Silent boot opensuse without fbsplash
I want to boot my openSUSE 10.3 distro without any boot messages.
I've looked at fbsplash, but it requires patching the kernel, a thing which I cannot do at the moment (not because I don't want it or ...
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Encrypt boot file system
I just tried to set up Debian in a VM (just testing, before installing it on a real system).
I have set up 4 drives in total. 2 drives that simulate pen drives, on which I want to install the boot ...
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New menu entry in GRUB2, “file not found” and “you need to load the kernel first” errors
I wanted to add new menu entry to my GRUB2 list. This is how I tried to do this and necessary info:
Erros after choosing "Debian Wheezy" menu entry from GRUB2 list:
error:file not found
error:you ...
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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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Given vmlinuz and initrd.gz, how do I find out, where the kernel is going to load / (root) file system from?
I'm trying various ways of Linux installation (from iso, flash, iso on flash, kernel on flash, root FS in iso-file on flash...) and want to understand what's going on.
My question is: is it possible, ...
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Kernel upgrade 2.6 to 3.5.3 on CentOS 5.8 -> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
I upgraded kernel on my CentOS 5.8 from 2.6.18 to 3.5.3 and now it is unable to mount the root filesystem:
I could not find any explanation through Google. Can you point me in the right direction? ...
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Stop user being able to access live CD environment or recovery mode?
I'm haved created an account on ubuntu that is just a standard user but with no internet access. I have also removed 'recovery mode' from the grub menu so that one cannot just choose this option ...
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Load Linux bzImage in QEMU?
I compiled a Linux by doing "Make menuconfig" then make and now I have compiled the most recent version of Linux. How can I load the kernel into QEMU?
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Linux boots sometimes into kernel instead of Openbox
I have a Solid-Run Cubox and installed Debian Netboot on it.
Now I want to configure it as webserver/kiosk PC to run a self made webapp.
I installed xorg, openbox, apache/php libs and wrote my own ...
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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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/boot too small to upgrade
Trying to upgrade from F15 to F17. I need to find a way to increase /boot size without destroying data. Details:
I tried upgrading using preupgrade process and via booting from Net iso on USB and ...
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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 ...
