GRUB is a modern boot loader installed by many Linux distributions
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How to enter into BusyBox when booting?
I have occasionally installed cloud-init package in Ubuntu, which blocks me from booting. Neither recovery mode works. Because cloud-init installed some upstart job configuration.
So I want to enter ...
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Grub error 21 unless both sd card and live-usb are present
I'm not sure exactly how my EEE PC got to this point, but I have Backtrack (an Ubuntu-based distro) on the SD card, and a few different Ubuntu LiveUSB distros on different USB memory sticks. If both ...
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Grub Won't Boot Arch Linux
Notice: This is not about dual booting, I can setup GRUB to dual boot with Windows 7 later. I just need to be able to get into Arch Linux.
Last night I installed Arch onto my computer via ...
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How do I prevent GRUB from using/starting any graphical UI?
I have a problem with an older Laptop (Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook S6010, to be precise) and an Ubuntu (10.10, Xubuntu desktop) installation (fresh install).
During installation the graphics hardware ...
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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 ...
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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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GRUB on USB Drive — adding OSes
Some Background:
Coming from a largely Windows background (though I'm familiar with Ubuntu, etc.) and using a Windows 7 machine to complete this task
Have gotten GRUB installed successfully to the ...
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Arch Linux fails to boot from a USB key (cannot mount selected partition)
I tried to install Arch Linux to an USB key. Things are kind of wobbly (it assumes the system has exactly one drive inside, for example) but everything installed just fine. Until I rebooted.
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installing grub 2 on mdadm, which device?
when installing grub(2) to mdadm devices are you supposed to install it to /dev/sdX or /dev/mdX?
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Chainload two Grub2 installations
This is really getting me down. I have Gentoo and Ubuntu, both with Grub2. Gentoo has a dedicated /boot partition, while Ubuntu does not. I have a menuentry in Gentoo's /etc/grub.d/40_custom to boot ...
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Finding the offset for ext4 partition
I've created an image of my hd with dd, but grub was installed on it, and I'm trying to figure out how to mount the image file, but mount doesn't recognise it as an ext4 partition because of the grub ...
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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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need help booting the machine using the Ubuntu 10.04 installer CD
I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 on my machine which already has Windows Vista and Fedora installed.
I use GRUB to get the boot menu. The GRUB screen looks something like this (has a fedora logo ...
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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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bootstrapping a DSL installation onto a machine with no bios boot support
I have a vintage 2001 laptop (Vaio R505) which is very hardware limited. Fortunately there is much that works, but I can't figure how to make it work better. The two biggest constraints are 256MB RAM ...
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Editing grub menu
I'd like to edit the Grub menu that comes up, to move one line and remove others.
I have an Inspiron 1420 that came with Ubuntu 7.10. When it needed a new drive, I installed Windows 7, the original ...
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Installing Grub (2) on a USB flash drive
MultiBootISOs is a tool that let you install Grub on a USB flash drive. I really like it because it lets me boot from ISO files and let me put a bunch of ISOs on my USB and choose which one to boot.
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Grub location - did it go to the mbr or elsewhere?
I have a dual boot setup with linux and Windows 7 with Grub as the bootloader.
My partition table looks like this:
100 MB System Reserved Windows 7
500 GB Windows 7
100 MB /boot - ext2
500 GB linux, ...
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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. ...
