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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Cannot boot Fedora Linux
I cannot boot the operating system on my laptop. I have three versions of the kernel installed and none of them will boot.
Booting into Windows (installed in a separate partition) still works, so I ...
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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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Do live (versions of) unix distributions ever automatically pick up config info from a OS already installed on the machine?
Maybe this is a silly question, the answer is probably no; but I gotta ask.
For example, if I have an Ubuntu Live USB running on a machine with Ubuntu already installed, might the Live OS ever look ...
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How to use ms-sys to restore MBR to boot /dev/sda2? [closed]
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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Debian 6 Gnome black screen after boot
I installed Debian a few weeks ago, and the last time I ran apt-get update, I think it updated something xorg/xserver, not sure.
Since then i get a black screen after boot.
If I go into recovery mode ...
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Linux thin station
I have this pc that I just installed and set it up as Linux thin station. I did all the formatting procedures and copying of image to the HD. When I boot it up, I get these, which I think are driver ...
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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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Assigning static device path
I have 4 flash cards plugged in, sequentially named by system:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdc1
/dev/sdd1
I want to assign static pathes to them, so every time the system boots up their pathes will ...
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How can I tell what memory RAM address range is being used by uboot?
I am in uboot and was wondering, how could I tell what RAM address range is being used by uboot.
uboot needs memory to run so it might be using some of the RAM. I want to avoid modifying those RAM ...
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What does the “00:00:00” timestamp mean in kern.log?
I'm looking for causes of a particular problem in kern.log. There are many entries with a 00:00:00 timestamp:
Jun 11 00:00:00 mymachine kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpusetJun 11 ...
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Booting from command line
I have a desktop version of #! installed on my laptop. I am quite new to Linux, but learning more everyday.
I would like to know if it is possible to choose on start-up to boot into the Desktop, as ...
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Sharing /boot between two Ubuntu 12.04 Server installations?
This question may seem trivial at first sight, but it has certain implications and I'm wondering what is the recommended path to take here.
Assume the following scenario: a server system. The default ...
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SSH to decrypt encrypted LVM during headless server boot?
When I installed Ubuntu 10.04 and, now, 10.10, I was offered the option of enabling "encrypted LVM" for my hard drive.
After choosing that option, I am prompted for my password during boot to decrypt ...
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Making a recovery partition in embedded Linux
I have an Atmel SAM9X system running Angstrom. I am trying to make a recovery partition so when a user holds a button during boot up the recovery partition boots up.
I have modified the bootstrap so ...
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How do I get Fedora 17 boot media to boot my laptop?
I have been using Ubuntu since Ubuntu 11.10 came out. I was very satisfied with how Ubuntu has evolved over the past few years, but now I would like to try out Fedora 17 since that has been out for a ...
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Unable to boot pintos OS using bochs emulator on Linux [closed]
I am trying to boot the Pintos OS using the bochs emulator software. Here is the output of running the pintos command to run a simple user program:
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To recover my system so it shut down normally?
I have Linux mint 13(ubuntu 12.04) installed on my thinkpad T520, running for around 1 year. I'm not able to shut down my machine even if I do: sudo shutdown now.
At first, it halts after messages of ...
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Booting a file system image from a HDD using GRUB2 with persistence
How do I preserve changes I make to files when running an operating system that is booted - using GRUB2 - from a file that contains a file system.
I managed to get GRUB2 to boot an image file that ...
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Networking related problem halts system to shut down
I have Ubuntu 12.04 (to be precise Linux mint 13) installed on my thinkpad T520, running for around 1 year. I am not able to shut down my machine even when I do sudo shutdown now.
After eliminating ...
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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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Install Win8 After Ubuntu
I've read that it's best to install win8 before linux.
I already have Ubuntu set up with lots of goodies so I don't really want to re-install everything. Is it possible to install win8 now that I have ...
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How to boot Slackware from second hard disk when it was installed on first?
I first installed slackware with the drive in HDD1 slot, then once I got a caddy for HDD2, I reconnected the slackware drive to the HDD2 slot. (I have Windows on my HDD1).
Is there a way to boot ...
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How to get rid of the “scanning for btrfs file systems” at start-up?
After upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10, I get a message "scanning for btrfs file systems" at starting-up. I don't have any BTRFS filesystem. It delays the booting for about 15 seconds.
How ...
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Find out if computer started via Wake-on-LAN or power putton?
Is there any (reliable) way to find out if the PC booted because of a Wake-on-LAN Packet instead of pressing the power button? I want automatically check if WOL is correctly configured.
I know about ...
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slitaz 4.0 grub2 loopback concatenate multiple initrd images
I'm trying to get slitaz 4.0 ISO to boot using a grub2 loopback on a multiboot USB;
insmod font
if loadfont /boot/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
insmod gfxterm
# insmod efi_gop
# insmod efi_uga
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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 to repair system if kernel panic?
I've just updated packages:
2013-05-23 11:15:34 startup archives unpack
2013-05-23 11:15:35 upgrade locales:all 2.13-38 2.17-3
2013-05-23 11:15:35 status half-configured locales:all 2.13-38
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Can't boot FreeBSD after installation
I've installed FreeBSD on my system along with Windows 7 using this tutorial. When I turn on my PC the screen says something like this:
F1 FreeBSD
F2 Win
F3 ?
F6 PXE
Boot: F1 _
Pressing F2 ...
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Defragment a USB flash drive on Mac OS X
I frequently create bootable flash drives and many a time large files need to be defragmented in order to boot. On Windows I'd used Contig/WinContig, but I must use OS X for the same purpose now. Are ...
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How to know what will execute at startup/bootup?
I would like what scripts will run at start, without needing to "restart and see what happens", is there any way to know what 'services' are ready to run?
Shoud I check every single file in
ls ...
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Setting up an ad-hoc network on boot
I'm pretty new to Linux; this project is me trying to learn more. I've done login scripts before but not boot scripts, so that's one of my questions. My other question is how to get an ad-hoc ...
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How should I configure grub for booting linux kernel from a USB hard drive?
I have a laptop hard drive in an external enclosure which I use as a large pendrive. For an added twist, I have installed Linux on it, so I can boot any machine with my distribution of choice (e.g. ...
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Debian init runlevels
It used to be that when you booted most linuxes, you would boot into runlevel 6, unless you did something during the bootloading to change the runlevel,.
The process would then look in ...
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Cannot boot the system
I can't boot my Debian system, I got this error during boot up:
Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting.
I have solved this by adding blacklist snd-pscp to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf ...
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Can I move an existing Debian installation to a RAID5?
I put myself a small NAS together, to experiment a bit with raid. I have a working RAID 5 array using mdadm under Debian 6 ("squeeze").
I installed GRUB and Debian to an USB stick, since I was not ...
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Debian: Screen stays black occasionally during boot with Asus P8Z68-V Pro/Gen3
I'm running Debian Wheezy on a Asus P8Z68-V Pro/Gen3 mainboard.
My graphics card is a Radeon 6850, I'm using the Open Source radeon drivers (xserver-xorg-video-radeon).
During boot, my screen ...
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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 ...
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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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Can't boot after installing FreeBSD in VMware Workstation
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1-i386 in VMware Workstation.
I'm following the guide in the manual on freebsd.org to do this.
When I come to the partitioning part I use the guided setting and it ...
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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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udevadm slow boot
After I upgraded from Slackware 13.70 to 14.0, when the machine is booting, it takes it 15 seconds to execute this line:
/sbin/udevadm trigger --action=add
I understand, that it tries to detect ...
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GDM not showing when I boot my FreeBSD system
I've installed FreeBSD 9.1 in a VirtualBox VM, and did some basic setup.
After that, I had installed Gnome2 via sudo pkg_add -r gnome2.
Along the way, there were some errors. Mostly it was (I think) ...
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How to make UEFI bootable usb disk from bios bootable iso
Suppose you have an iso image that contains a bios bootable partition.
You can write this image to a usb disk, which is now bootable on computers with bios. For example
dd if=pmagic_2013_02_28.iso ...
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Fedora 18 Live CD is hanging on boot
When I boot up Fedora 18 (Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso) in a Virtual Machine, I just get this screen:
I've verified the SHA sum, and I've tried starting it up in "basic graphics mode", yet I ...
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Ubuntu to Debian migration on UEFI system [closed]
I had a Ubuntu 12.04 installation. I migrated to Debian wheezy and messed up my entire system. Now the system boots with "Missing operating system".
Are there any links out there for migration on ...
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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 convert grub config to use kernel device names instead of UUID
I've got a bunch of identical systems on which I want to clone the same openSUSE 12.3 installation.
I've set up clonezilla on PXE server.
After appling the disk-image of on another machine, it fails ...
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Running Ubuntu of a USB stick. Can't install wireless driver
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my 8 gb USB stick, and got it running. It seems like I don't have the full Ubuntu OS on the stick though, and that was my intention. Anyway, I can run a "demo" version ...
