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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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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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Fedora 17 Grub not finding Windows 8
I had Windows 8 installed, shrunk it and installed Fedora 17 using the free space. It now only boots into Fedora.
I have these two EFI partitions:
/dev/sda2
/EFI
/Boot/bootx64.efi
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Unable to launch Fedora 18 LiveCD using USB device
I just bought a new motherboard which has BIOS and UEFI. I have a previously working LiveCD installed on my usb, created with LiveUSB Creator. I tried using it to boot but got stuck at the grub ...
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What is the default font for Grub in Ubuntu and Fedora?
I was wondering what the name of the font is for the grub set by default after installation in Ubuntu and Fedora (they are different ones). Any help would be great!
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Failed to boot Grub Error Fedora 17
I had two hard disks. One is internal, 320GB, all NTFS, where Windows 7 is installed in a ~20GB partition. The other is external, 160GB, where I have installed Fedora. Now when I had installed Fedora ...
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Bootloader error installing Fedora [closed]
I need a dual boot in my computer, Windows 7 and Fedora 17. I first installed Windows 7 and created the partition scheme during Windows install:
- Partition 1: is a small partition automatically ...
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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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Missing Fedora in grub after installing Ubuntu
I had Fedora 17 in a primary partition. Yesterday I installed Ubuntu in an extended partition, and I can't see Fedora in grub, so I tried update-grub2 but it doesn't recognise Fedora being present, ...
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Can't boot from Fedora PreUpgrade image
I have been happily using, for several months, Fedora 12 on a PC with a crashed Windows XP3 as the other operating system, and have just used preupgrade to download Fedora 16, which now appears as the ...
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Setting grub loader as default loader
I have Windows 7 on my system, and recently I have installed Fedora 16 in a different partition. To have it dual boot, I have used EasyBCD 2.1.2 and I made an entry for Fedora. When I boot my system, ...
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How to start a windows partition from the Grub command line?
I have Windows 7 installed on my system. After I installed Windows 7, I installed Fedora on a separate partition so that I could dual boot.
I removed Fedora by deleting the partition it was installed ...
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GRUB error Fedora 15 when Dual Booting on MacBook Pro
I am having trouble getting Fedora 15 running on my MacBook Pro. I had Fedora 15 installed before on this MBP before, so I know it works. I basically followed the good old instructions of
Create a ...
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Missing /etc/default/grub in fedora15
Based on this suggestion, I want to edit /etc/default/grub to add the line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=Linux"
However, I don't have that file on my system. What should I do?
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How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?
I installed Fedora 14 first, then Ubuntu 10.04. I installed them using dm_crypt/aes256/lvm, so I used encrypted VolumeGroups. At the end of the Ubuntu install it said it cannot install GRUB, so I had ...
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Selecting the right GRUB
I've just installed Backtrack on my harddrive (got one), i also got Fedora and Windows 7. However, now i get the Backtrack-GRUB instead of my Fedora GRUB. How do i change that? I got a sda5 containing ...
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Problem with Fedora 14 after ATI Catalyst 10.11 Install
I followed the steps as given in this article.
After following all of the steps, ATI Catalyst was installed but when i boot my system, I get these options at GRUB:
GNU GRUB version 0.97
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How to generate grub.conf from scratch in Fedora 14?
It seems that I hit following bug in Fedora 14 - I deselected installing grub into the MBR while using the graphical installer, because I want to use an existing grub instance.
Now, I want to look up ...
