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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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Can't see my ssd drive when booting using grub on a usb pen

I installed debian on my laptop and everything was fine (I may need to mention that I'm using LVM) until I reached the grub point. Since I have a GPT partition he refuses to install properly. I ...
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What are these commands for?

Yesterday I had to install a Windows with its Grub override. Well, it's not the first time I had to fix Grub, so I used LiveCD, mounted the root partition (I don't have boot, just / and home) and ran ...
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grub2: how to bypass “press any key”?

I recently updated my motherboard and moved my grub2 onto EFI partition. I have same grub menu, but after I select a menu entry and press Enter, a message "Press any key" comes and the loading stops ...
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Grub 'incompatible license' error

The other day, I was using a laptop for general desktop use when its keyboard began to act up. Most of the keys on the keyboard's right side stopped working entirely and key combinations such as Ctrlu ...
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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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Ubuntu: How do the md devices get assembled at bootup?

How do the md devices get assembled at bootup in Ubuntu? Is /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf truly the relevant factor here? My mdadm.conf is sound and I checked that while I was in the rescue CD environment. ...
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How to get grub Ubuntu 12.04 to boot from secondary boot partition and use new seperate root

On a remote Ubuntu server I performed a series of upgrades/changes to go from a desktop-install Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick to a server-install of 12.04 LTS Precise This all went well except a few hickups ...
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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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Boot linux bootloader from Mac OSX

Recently I was running Fedora 17 on my computer which was an HP windows based machine. Unfortunately my computer has a malfunctioning motherboard and will no longer turn on. I removed the hard drive ...
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grub2 and cryptsetup

My root node is LUKS encrypted, and it uses a key file, instead of user input password to unlock it. I know in Grub2, I can use insmod cryptodisk insmod luks cryptomount -u <uuid> But I have ...
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Getting a working chroot environment to boot with Grub2

Question I have a working chroot environment (inittab, fstab, init.d/rcS set up), a kernel, and grub2 installed. What more do I need to get my system working? Background/Specifics For educational ...
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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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Full disc encryption with GRUB2

Does anyone know of a good Howto on how to fully encrypt a HDD (even the /boot!) with GRUB2? Is it possible using fedora 14 or ubuntu 10.04?
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Iso booting with grub2

I am using Linux Mint 10, and it is installed on sda8. I edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom: #!/bin/sh echo "Adding 40_custom.">&2 exec tail -n +3 $0 # This file provides an easy way to add custom ...