grub2 is the second revision of the GRand Unified Bootloader. It partly resides in the master boot record, so it is launched by the BIOS. It is able to read most filesystems, and its main job is to read the kernel and initramfs from a disk in order to place them into memory and launch the kernel.
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How do I begin with building a Linux system from scratch?
I tried to make an operating system with my on custom built kernel. It didn't work out too well. I am using Ubuntu and have downloaded Linux 3.2.7 from kernel.org . I am not trying to change the ...
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Can GRUB2 share the EFI system partition with Windows?
I have an existing Windows 7 GPT installation, which already has a EFI System partition.
I am now trying to install a Linux on a separate harddisk, which is also GPT formatted. I did not find any ...
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How to check on which drives grub2 has actually installed an MBR?
I'm on a Debian/Squeeze system (with a history going back to at least Woody) which was upgraded to grub2 as part of the Squeeze upgrade. All works well, but I'm about to mess with the disk ...
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FreeNAS grub2 booting ISO
I've got usb-keys setup to multi-boot different Linux images. I wouldn't mind adding FreeNAS, and there's a doc with samples to add to grub.cfg
menuentry "FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64" {
insmod ufs2
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Can GRUB font size be customised?
I would like to reduce the size of the font of GRUB boot loader. Is it possible and so how?
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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 ...
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Enabling IOMMU in the kernel for graphics card pass-through
Short question:
How can I turn on the intel_iommu setting in the Linux kernel? I run a Debian host, using the grub2 bootloader. Documentation I've seen says to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, which seems ...
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How do you install Grub2 on a USB stick?
How do you install Grub2 on a bootable USB stick?
Somewhere I've heard that Grub2 can boot directly from ".iso" images,
so I'm hoping Grub2 will make it easy to drag-and-drop several "liveCD" iso ...
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Grub 2 installed on-partition - how to not embed it
My friend installed ArchLinux on a MacBook Pro alongside Mac OSX and Windows to try it. He's power user, so I only needed to help with the bootloader. Arch Linux's described installation of GRUB did ...
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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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How do I make sure grub is only installed once?
I currently have Windows on one partition, and Ubuntu on another. I'd like to install Quimo, and possibly Mint and/or Lubuntu as well.
How do I make sure that only Ubuntu has Grub, and that the ...
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Grub error: file '/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found?
I recently install arch (hopefully successfully) on my machine. When I went to reboot however I had a problem. I got a black screen with text saying
Grub loading.
Welcome to GRUB!
error: file ...
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Problem at booting Windows from GRUB2 menu made by Debian for itself
I've Asus UEFI motherboard with 2 hard disks, (hd0) and (hd1).
I managed to make my Debian Wheezy on my second disk bootable using grub-efi and it boots OK. I also have Windows on the first disk, ...
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VirtualBox bug[?] when Chainloading Grub2
Regarding this: How to install Fedora&Ubuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?
So booted into Ubuntu..and I run this script:
#!/bin/bash
# show the bootlist of grub when booting pc
sed ...
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Can not mount drive after installing windows vista
I have searched for weeks now and have not found an answer to my question. Hopefully you guys can give me a push in the right direction :)
Ok, here is what happened:
I have linux mint on a 1.5 TB ...
