This tag covers both bootloader issues (what happens before the operating system starts) and the starting up of the operating system.
4
votes
1answer
753 views
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 ...
4
votes
1answer
1k views
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
35 views
Protecting file system contents with TPM and Encrypted File System
I have been assured that this is possible, but have so far not found any reference that will clue me as to how to do it. I need to deploy an "appliance" with software and data that the user is ...
3
votes
1answer
217 views
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 ...
3
votes
0answers
32 views
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 ...
3
votes
0answers
95 views
Used xrandr to rotate monitor but cannot reverse it after deleting script
I following a guide to have my tablet (Samsung ativ 700t running ubuntu 12.10 Gnome3) invert the screen 180 on login
I place a script file in /etc/X11/Session.d/45custom-script.
Contents of file: ...
3
votes
0answers
278 views
How to load HID kernel module from the kernel command line?
While upgrading a server from kernel 3.2.9 to kernel 3.5 I had a problem with the network (ifconfig eth0 up won't work) so I updated the system to get a newer userspace, but in the process something ...
3
votes
0answers
619 views
Why is plymouth-log-viewer starting up?
I've been using Fedora 14 for about a month on my primary system (converted from Win2K). My secondary system was converted to Fedora 12 from Win2K, and was updated sequentially to Fedora 14 (using ...
2
votes
0answers
22 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
79 views
Why does my Pandaboard boot partition need to be vfat, and the rootfs need to be ext3 or ext4?
While booting Android on a Pandaboard, I am partitioning the SD card into two partitions, boot and root. They contain different filesystems. Why does the boot partition need to be vfat, while the ...
2
votes
0answers
150 views
How can I mount a dm_crypt device during boot, it fails all the time
EDIT: Problem solved, i updated from Debian 6.0.6 to 7.0.0, everything works now!
I have a complex problem at booting. Basically, I have a debian apache box, as a music server in my home network. The ...
2
votes
0answers
703 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
176 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
116 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
88 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
212 views
KDE not loading without nomode tag in grub and bad resolution
I recently installed Linux Mint 13 KDE but it's not working fine. At first I had to use failsafe mode to boot because normal boot takes to a textual login.
If I use normal boot and text login I'm not ...
2
votes
0answers
712 views
Install Chrome Linux from PXE boot
I've got a PXE boot server from which I can boot a selection of LIVE CD's. Mostly different Ubuntu distributions.
Setting it up for ubuntu was relatively easy. I have copied the caspar directory from ...
2
votes
0answers
196 views
Fedora now tries to connect to wireless at boot?
In my Fedora 16 installation I've recently noticed that it tries to connect to wireless at boot (I have kernel messages turned on at boot so I can see it trying). The issue though is that my wireless ...
1
vote
0answers
32 views
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.
...
1
vote
0answers
53 views
How to boot into FreeBSD installed in the second partition of an external drive
I have installed FreeBSD 9.1 on the second partition of an external hard disk and I'm not able to get my computer to boot from it. FreeBSD was installed using the FreeBSD memstick image dd'd onto a ...
1
vote
0answers
91 views
GRUB2 and kernel vga= parameter
According to the documentation, use of the vga= kernel parameter is deprecated as of GRUB2. The fact that some newer kernels don't seem to support it anymore on certain adapters is of no concern as ...
1
vote
0answers
80 views
Unable to install the selected kernel
I have problem with my DVD drive. It's corrupted and when I'm trying to install Ubuntu it stucks (even with the miniISO)
I was able to successfully start the OS from system rescue CD.
I'd like to ...
1
vote
0answers
60 views
Instal linux from USB without bios support
I have old pc where I want to install debian from "smaller CD" (up to 40mb, rest will be downloaded). I have made bootable usb from this debian.
The problem is, my computer is so old that it (bios) ...
1
vote
0answers
62 views
Provide passphrase to plymouth ask-for-password from command line
I'm working on booting a headless server (Fedora 16), entering the passphrase to decrypt the root disk (LUKS) over SSH using dropbear. I've got dropbear all working: I can SSH to the server while it's ...
1
vote
0answers
102 views
RHEL6.2 stuck at Starting virt-who when booting
I'm using the 32 bit version of RHEL6.2. I had to install the drivers for my Nvidia graphics card, after which everything was working fine, until today when wanted to install truecrypt, and it ...
1
vote
0answers
367 views
Why does eth0 only go up sometimes on boot?
I just installed Arch with Archboot. On boot, there's about 50% change of eth0 to go up. If it doesn't I'll have to reboot. What could cause this?
If it goes up, dmesg contains:
[ 7.9...] IPv6: ...
1
vote
0answers
72 views
How to put syslinux on an sd card
I would like to know how to put syslinux on my sd card and I have tried using extlinux. However, I keep getting the message Missing Operating System. Please help me.
1
vote
0answers
120 views
Fedora 17 freezes at loading screen with a CD-based installation
I'm trying to install F17 on my laptop (Toshiba A-665 ... 4gigs RAM, nividia gforce GTS350M,core-i7 1.7 GHz processor), but the liveCD boot freezes about 3/4 of the way through the loading icon... ...
1
vote
0answers
460 views
How to troubleshoot kernel panic on boot
I'm trying to run Debian Linux on a Nokia IP710 firewall, but I can't get it to boot correctly: kernel panic every time.
The firewall has a Pentium III 1Ghz and 512MB RAM. It has no vga, a very ...
1
vote
0answers
187 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
403 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
114 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
114 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
222 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
97 views
Fastest, most consistent booting
I am running an i3 laptop, assembled by Asus. I am running Ubuntu with grub2 and burg boot loader.
I would love to have a consistent graphical boot process as with Mac OS X. I don't want the user to ...
1
vote
0answers
86 views
Battery not detected on my embedded device on reboot
I have an ARM based embedded device with Linux Kernel 2.6.31 running on it. I have seen that while rebooting the device sometimes battery won't get detected and the device will just fail to boot. Any ...
1
vote
0answers
168 views
Booting Laptop with external monitor stalls
Whenever I try to boot linux with an external monitor attached to my laptop, it hangs after checking the battery state with the following message repeated several times:
...crtc_helper_set_config...
...
1
vote
0answers
311 views
How do I create more /dev/tty entries and /dev/ptmx on boot up?
After building kernel 3.2.13 and installing via RPM on my system, I have this problem:
There is no /dev/ptmx which the rest of my system is expecting. There is actually a /dev/tty/ptmx device ...
1
vote
0answers
310 views
Fedora 16 install from USB memory stick to Samsung NP305U1A netbook will not boot
I have installed Fedora 16 from a USB memory stick. After installing, which seems to work just fine, and after rebooting I end up in the BIOS. I can not find which BIOS settings to use and have not ...
1
vote
0answers
1k views
GRUB2 and EFI - File not found?
I'm running Linux on a 8,3 2011 MacBook Pro. It uses EFI/rEFIt to boot.
I was able to install GRUB2 EFI support, and it shows up just fine in the rEFIt boot menu. Everything seems to be working ...
0
votes
0answers
73 views
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 ...
0
votes
0answers
53 views
*ERROR* timed out waiting for panel to power on
I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 on Asus VX6 (1.8GHz Atom - 2 cores, optimus nVidia ION) with Kernel 3.9.0.
When I start my system I get this error:
[ 15.728106] [drm:intel_enable_lvds] *ERROR* timed out ...
0
votes
0answers
146 views
booting very slow
I have Linux Mint 14 and it was fine, but lately it takes a lot longer to boot.
I have my linux installation on one partition. I had a dual boot first, then I removed windows. So, that freed up 2 ...
0
votes
0answers
47 views
Boot disk unavailable
Background
I've got one 32GB SSD that I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on (this drive is encrypted), and two 1.5TB drives that will serve as storage and backup respectively. I have formated both drives ...
0
votes
0answers
154 views
PC BSD 9.1 not loading after initial install
I just tried to install PC-BSD 9.1 on my Alienware m14x-R3 laptop (with Optimus support), and it refuses to boot. It will come to the bootloader screen, but when I attempt to boot, the actual kernel ...
0
votes
0answers
62 views
Missing operating system
Extlinux keeps saying Missing Operating System and I don't know what to do. I tried installing the Master Boot Record but it says Missing Operating System too. I have extlinux installed on my sd card.
...
0
votes
0answers
940 views
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 ...
0
votes
0answers
76 views
Creating a Virtual filesystem to boot linux
I am trying to boot the linux kernel (bzImage) in QEMU but have had issues. After asking on U&L I found out that my problem was that I was booting the kernel without a filesystem to boot from. So ...
0
votes
0answers
83 views
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 ...
0
votes
0answers
284 views
“Error inserting microcode” on new install of Fedora 15
I started getting an error that looked like this the other day, and I Googled the problem but couldn't find the solution (probably because I don't quite to know what to Google), so I reinstalled the ...
