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Unable to Boot into F17
I was currently running Win8 and F17 as a dual boot on my home desktop with an i5 chip and Asus UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, while I was in Win8 I accidentally removed the partition that held my F17 OS.
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What rescue disk (rescue CD/DVD) to recover data from failed HDD would you recommend for first time user?
What rescue disk (rescue CD/DVD) would you recommend for an user which unfortunately needs to rescue data from a bad disk (filesystems does not mount when using LiveCD, though fdisk looks O.K.) for a ...
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How can I force a Ubuntu kernel to fail mounting / and drop into the initramfs rescue shell?
I am trying to customize the initramfs rescue environment and would like to force the kernel to fail mounting / and drop into the (initramfs) rescue shell, as opposed to single user mode.
How can I ...
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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, gone to partition editor and deleted the volume containing the Ubuntu (Thought it will delete the Ubuntu and it ...
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Arch linux booting into rescue shell by default
I just installed Arch in my PC alongside windows 7 but for some reason it boots directly into the rescue shell, this is how it looks
It doesn't show any errors though, and if I press Ctrl+D it just ...
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Fedora 15 Crash after xorg.conf file update
I updated my xorg.conf file looking to set up a dual screen system. Unfortunately, I can't provide you this file because when I went to reboot my system crashed.
The last line I get when I try to ...
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/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs error
I am building a CentOS 6.2 webserver on a Hyper-V Cluster and have hit a major issue. The current setup is this:
Operating System: CentOS 6.2. Minimal Server Install
Installed software includes:
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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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Boot in rescue mode with vlan support in RHEL
I am trying to restore RHEL OS (5.3.1.1) from network, where we have VLANs configured on our switches.
So the only way to get to shared folder on remote server with backup image is to configure VLAN.
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How do I backup everything?
What can I use to create a backup image of my entire system that will be saved on a LAN computer via SSH? If I break anything later, I want to be able to restore my entire system as it was before the ...
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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 ...
