GRUB is a modern boot loader installed by many Linux distributions
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How do I force grub2 to detect my arch linux install?
I have an uncommon setup. I have Ubuntu installed on one, and a backup from a direct copy of an older Arch Linux install on the second. By direct copy, I mean I tar'd the contents of an entire ...
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GParted LiveCD: Is there a version with a 64-bit kernel?
I'm trying to chroot with the GParted LiveCD onto an existing 64-bit system, attempting to fix grub.
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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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Boot into chroot directory leaves the root partition read-only
I am trying to make grub boot into a chroot directory /slack containing a Slackware Linux installation. This directory was created by issuing the following command:
installpkg --root /slack a/*.t?z
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How can I tell grub I want to reboot into Windows—before I reboot?
I have a dual boot linux/windows system set up, and frequently switch from one to the other. I was thinking if I could add a menu item in one of the menus to reboot directly into windows, without ...
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Why is GRUB 2 booting so slowly?
I have a small custom embedded Linux distribution (created with OpenEmbedded), which boots with GRUB 1.99. The aim is to have it start up fast.
Currently it says:
GRUB loading.
for ~2+ seconds ...
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Can not boot ArchLinux with a Macbook pro 7.1
Today i endly decide to put a Linux in dual boot on my macbook 7.1
I parted the HDD with Gparted like this :
refit / MacOSX / boot / root / home
I installed Arch succefully, folowing the tuto about ...
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Ext4 support in Grub 0.9X (legacy) and Grub 1.9X (Grub2)
I'm about to setup my new USB key with Grub or Grub2. In the old days I used ext2 for the boot partition.
I'm wondering if I could use ext4 for Grub2?
And if use Grub 0.9X, what about support of ...
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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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update-grub in grml
I converted a machine from a single disk to mdadm RAID1. I did this nearly like it's described in Raid1 on a running system.
Before, I tried to make the same changes not within the running system, ...
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Cannot boot Linux Mint after installing Windows (First) and Linux Mint (Second)
I can't boot my Linux Mint after installation of Windows. First I installed Windows and then installed Linux Mint with the option of "Install along with windows". But after I completed the Mint ...
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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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What is resume= used for in my grub boot settings?
I've always noticed the resume=/dev/foo entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst, and that it corresponds to the swap partition, but I've never questioned its use.
title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - ...
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How to repair the grub on debian
I am loading Linux (Debian Lenny) on VirtualBox but there is apparently something wrong with the GRUB. When I start the system, a grub menu appears:
Then I run the following commands:
root ...
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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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Cannot boot to Windows 7 partition using Grub
Windows 7 BOOTMGR is missing when I try to boot into the OS from GRUB. Im not anywhere near being a pro when it comes to partioning or whatever so here's a image of gparted:
And a copy paste of ...
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Where can I learn more about how to use the GRUB `ntldr` command (module?)
I recently stumbled across the GRUB ntldr module.
Apparently one of the things it can be used for is as an alternative to chainloader to boot the NT >= 6.0 versions of Windows as in the example ...
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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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How to enable dual booting option at boot screen?
I have two hard drives, 160GB and 500GB. On the 160GB I have installed RHEL 6 and on the 500GB, Windows 7. When I start, the hard drive which is set as primary is booting directly. I have set the ...
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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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How to use ms-sys to restore MBR to boot /dev/sda2?
My brother screwed up a multi-OS install on his laptop and asked me to help fix it. I'm a basic linux user and I know my way around the terminal a little but beyond that I might need some hand-holding ...
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Puppy frugal install Harddisk Grub Problem
I tried to install Puppy Linux 5.2 on a Harddisk (IDE), since the BIOS does not allow USB boot.
As described here, I ran the universal installer and chose Harddisk,
Then i create a small partition ...
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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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Cannot access GRUB after deleting Win 8
I have Windows Vista and Linux Mint 12 KDE installed on my PC, each installed on it's own hard drive.
I recently wanted to try out Windows 8 Consumer Preview and see how it ran on my PC so I created ...
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Linux Operating system-NOT A KERNEL CHANGE [closed]
I tried to make an operating system with my on custom built kernel. It didn't work out to well. I am using ubuntu and have downloaded linux 3.2.7 from kernel.org . I am not trying to change the kernel ...
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Installing FreeBSD without removable media from CentOS 6
I've been tasked with installing FreeBSD 8 alongside CentOS 6, without the luxury of removable media. CentOS 6 is already on the machine, and running quite nicely. However, I cannot figure out how to ...
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Making the transition to multiple hard drives with dual boot
Hi I'm looking for tip or things to watch out for, while I make the following changes to my system:
I currently have a dual boot setup on one hard drive (win7 and ubuntu), I am going to change to a ...
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archlinux cannot boot after replace module init with kmod
I install archlinux (latest iso from the repository), then I install broadcom-wl
and connect to the network to run
pacman -Syu
everything is OK,
then I run
pacman -Syu
again, it ask that ...
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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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Unable to boot the operating system
I installed Lubuntu 11.10 and it run without problems. I decided to install Ubuntu 11.10 mini instead of Lubuntu 11.10.
After the installation the operating system didn't boot. I only saw the black ...
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GRUB on MBR of Windows-only internal drive, with distros on external drive
I think what I want to do is long and convoluted; then again, it might be somewhat easy, and I'm just overthinking it.
Here's the setup I want to achieve:
The internal drive (sda) is one giant ...
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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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What's the default boot parameter for CentOS 6.2?
I forgot to install a boot loader during LiveCD installation , since i've got other distribution resides in my system , i could add another entry into grub2 , but what's the default parameter for ...
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Configure fstab for a bootable usb
I'm trying to clone a partition and make it a bootable usb. I've made two ext3 partitions (just like the installation I'm cloning).
The first one is small and has grub/ and the kernel.
The second ...
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Advantages/Disadvantages of installing GRUB on a software RAID?
What Advantages are there to installing GRUB on a software RAID-1?
What Disadvantages are there to installing GRUB on a software RAID-1?
I ask this because most tutorials/help sections seems to ...
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How to configure GRUB to load Windows 7 Install in UEFI mode
I have a Dual-Boot USB I created with Multisystem for booting into PartedMagic, Ubuntu 11.10 & Windows 7 Install. Problem is Windows 7 says it cant install on a GPT partition.
Googled, and found ...
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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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Grub and boot loader
What effect does setting a partition to active still have with common boot loaders. For instance if you install grub on the mbr, do you still need to specify the /boot as active, or does grub just ...
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Grub installed by Scientific Linux does not boot Windows
I installed SL6.1 on a laptop that has a Vista install as well. After I installed SL6.1 I figured that I would have a boot option but no. How can I reconfigure GRUB to recognize Windows too?
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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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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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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 ...
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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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Slackware boot error after fresh install
I'm currently running Ubuntu and Slackware on my system. After just installing Slackware, with everything appearing to work fine, I boot into GRUB only to see an "error: no such disk" or something of ...
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Trying to create a multiboot USB for Installs
I am trying to boot various OS/Configurations of OS Install from a single USB. Have been using Multisystem. But it fails when I try to boot an install created with RemasterSys + Ubuntu 11.04
It gives ...
