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Windows 7 to Debian Linux: install without CD/DVD or USB drive or net during install
Installed : windows 7 home premium. Now want debian linux.
Tried a couple of things (see question below). Got installer menu using win32-loader.exe of debian from the goodbye-ms site.
But I have a ...
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Transfer a Fedora system to another computer
I'd like to transfer my Fedora to a remote machine. Fedora is under Grub 2.0 and on the remote machine there is a Centos system and Grub 0.97. In fact, I have two questions.
First is how to properly ...
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GRUB reported “error: file not found.” when booting CentOS 5
I installed CentOS 5.3 by using a 4GB USB disk on an old PC that I used run a Debian on it.
After a series of housework on the fresh system, I reboot the system using:
sudo shutdown -r now
After ...
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Boot windows from grub rescue command prompt
Previously I had installed the Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7.
Now I logged on to Windows, opened thepartition editor and deleted the volume containing the Ubuntu (Thought it will delete the Ubuntu and ...
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GRUB can't find an existing file?
I'm trying to install GRUB, but when I try to boot, I get this:
error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.
But that file exists on the drive I'm booting to. Why is it saying "not found" ...
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How is the kernel loaded?
I am trying to understand the Linux boot process, and after reading quite some amount of documentation there is one point that I still can't seem to understand.
So the basicis is BIOS -> Grub MBR -> ...
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Grub with two hard drives
I am trying to install Mint14 on my machine having two hard drives :
Samsung SSD PM830 SATA : 128 Gb ( sda ) - Windows 7 (i want to keep this)
ST9500423AS ATA : 500 Gb ( sdb ) - ...
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Mint 14 does not detect my first hard disk
I have two hardisks installed in my machine :
Samsung SSD PM830 SATA : 128 Gb
ST9500423AS ATA : 500 Gb
When I start Mint installer, it only showed me the 500Gb harddisk.So I partitioned it into ...
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LFS System not booting or GRUB cannot access /bood/grub on boot
The closest question I could find is this one, however it is still quite a bit different from what I am needing: GRUB fails to install
My specific setup and the steps I followed to produce this
I am ...
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Cannot boot into Windows 7 after deleting Linux partitions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
After removing linux Grub error
I was dual-booting Linux Fedora 17 and Windows 7. I used Windows to delete the Linux partitions, but now I can't boot into Windows ...
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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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grub does not boot when disk order changes
My BIOS has some problems and sometimes boot order of disks changes. I thought that if I insall grub on to the MBR of second data disk, it may boot. First disk(sda) is for boot and operating system, ...
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Reinstall GRUB from LiveCD
I have both windows and linux run on same machine. In Windows, when I set parition C to main boot, I cannot use GRUB anymore. So, I decide to reinstall GRUB.
But, when I use Fedora live CD to boot. I ...
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Move root filesystem on a logical volume to a different disk
I'm trying to move my root LV to a new VG on my brand new SSD and it's driving me crazy. I think I pulled it off with rsync, but now grub is refusing to register the new boot option off of ...
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loop-device: is this a Linux entity or a lower-level one?
Here's an Ubuntu How-to about booting from ISO-image on flash.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1288604
What I don't get is creation of loop-device in GRUB2 prior to booting a kernel:
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Want Windows to boot instead of Grub
So when I turn my computer on, Grub rescue boots up. I have finally figured out how to get into Windows, but now I want to skip the step of entering the information into Grub to get into windows. How ...
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Need to boot Windows 7 from Grub rescue command prompt
I booted my computer today and found the Grub rescue command prompt. I have been given this computer and it has Linux and windows 7 on it, but I have only ever used the windows section. I have no idea ...
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MBR is toast or at least Grub is
This started after some kernel trouble that I left alone for a while. I had miscompiled a kernel then tried to re-compile it and started to organize a list of boot options in grub for differently ...
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Booting a newly compiled linux kernel
I have started reading the book Essential Linux Device Drivers. I am following the process for compiling and booting into a new kernel. However I am unable to boot into the newly compiled kernel - I ...
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Force grub to accept windows installation
I installed in my laptop some time ago a oracle linux server to make some test for my job., ok now i want to remove it and install windows from CD., but when i restart the pc he try to run the CD from ...
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Why does Linux allow ‘init=/bin/bash’?
I recently found out that if I edit GRUB before booting and I add rw init=/bin/bash I end up with a root shell.
Being in a condition that I want to understand everything I would like to know why this ...
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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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Trouble booting server from GRUB prompt
I just installed CentOS 6.2 on my server but it keeps going to the GRUB prompt. I've never used Grub before but did some digging online. Looks like I have to run the kernel command before I can boot ...
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Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst on OpenSuSe 11.3
I compiled the latest kernel, and the menu.lst is updated as follows.
My aim is to keep the other kernel around, so that if the new one fails we can still boot from the other one.
Is this the correct ...
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Prevent GRUB from showing up by default?
Whenever I boot on Ubuntu, I see the entire GRUB menu by default. Is there a way I could make it simply auto-boot if uninterrupted within X seconds? I remember that this was the case on previous ...
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GRUB splashimage
I am using leagcy GRUB (0.97) on a system running linux kernel 2.6.31. I am using a GRUB splash image from /boot/grub/menu.lst. I see that the splashimage goes away once the GRUB menu selection is ...
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Error with grub2 installation on Backtrack 5
I installed BackTrack 5 r1 and I can't select boot option between Windows and BackTrack on start up.
How can I fix this, or how can I install grub 2?
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How to manually manage grub.cfg for Grub2?
I am setting up my system. The features of it are:
GPT partition table (not sure how important this is)
Triple boot - Gentoo, Debian and Mint.
Custom kernel (kernel git repo) shared amounst distros.
...
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BackTrack 5 Grub/Grub2 installation [closed]
I've been trying to install some grub on my machine, running only Backtrack 5 (from Ubuntu 10.04 I think). It is newly installed. I managed to create a non-root user for it (it isn't trivial for a ...
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Is it possible for grub2 to detect some specific CPU features and choose a proper kernel to boot?
I want to configure grub to check some CPU features on startup and choose a proper kernel to boot (e.g. multiple cores -> kernel with SMP support). Is it possible? If so, then how do I do it?
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Grub MD5 Crypt algorithm
How does Grub's MD5 algorithm work? When you run grub-md5-crypt and enter the same password each time you get different results. Generally md5 is supposed to always return the same hash, so why does ...
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Linux Root Recovery
On Ubuntu 10.10 I can login as root without the root password by replacing ro quiet splash with rw init=/bin/bash. How can I secure my machine and disable this backdoor?
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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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Which Grub to use for a custom portable boot image?
I would like to make a bootable USB/Floopy/LiveCD with linux kernel and Grub.
After booting to that USB/Floopy/LiveCD using VirtualBox or directly, it will show my own customized Grub screen and then ...
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I deleted files from my Linux box's /boot directory and now it won't boot
I deleted files from /boot to save space, but now when I boot I see:
GRUB loading, please wait ... ERROR 15
/boot still has files corresponding to the 2.6.32-27 version of Linux. But I deleted ...
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What would it take for a *nix system to shutdown, then continue to grub?
Is this possible to shutdown to grub, not all the way so you don't have to load back up the BIOS and other things. Like to give you the ability to quickly boot for Linux to Windows?
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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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Install grub on hard disk used in another system
So I have a 512MB flash chip used in an embedded system with the following partition table:
p1: 32MB boot partition
p2: 200MB recovery partition
p3: 200MB normal partition
I'm using buildroot on my ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 bad install…now Mac won't boot
I've been having a problem all day. It all started when I tried to partition my HD to install Ubuntu with bootcamp on my mac. The install froze and when I restarted the Apple logo was replaced with ...
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What is the difference between LILO and GRUB?
I am running a web server under Debian and I currently have GRUB installed.
Should I consider using LILO instead of GRUB? And what are the advantages of each?
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Multibooting FreeBSD and other Linux distros
Long story short: Have one laptop, need to multiboot FreeBSD/OpenBSD as well as a number of Linux distros.
Which one do you think should go first? FreeBSD offers a bootMgr, but I'm not sure how it ...
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Getting an existing Linux installation from one computer to boot on another
I have an existing Dell Precision 690 workstation setup to dual boot Windows XP and CentOS 5.5. These operating systems are installed on two separate drives. I have a grub menu on the Linux drive with ...
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How to uninstall RHEL from a dual-boot system?
I had RHEL 5 and WinXP on dual-boot and then from WinXP I deleted those partitions which were allocated to RHEL. Now I am not able to start my computer. The booting process stops at grub. I tried ...
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How to reset Linux root and grub passwords?
If we forget our Linux root password, we can change it by changing grub's boot options.
But in this case, we also set a grub password and forgot both passwords. How can we recover both?
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Debian Lenny: Want Splashy to start directly after Grub2
I'm running a GNU/Linux Debian Lenny with an 2.6.26-2-686 kernel.
I installed splashy for a bootsplash an updated grub to version 2.
Now I want splashy to start directly after the user has selected a ...
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Loading different Linux Distribution each time computer starts automatically?
I have two Linux distributions (OpenSuSE, Ubuntu) installed on two different partitions. Each time i start my machine, GRUB loads up allowing me to select one of the two distributions.
I don't want ...
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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. ...
