Questions tagged [boot-loader]
A boot loader (aka bootstrap loader) is the program that loads up the operating system kernel (or another boot-loader), e.g., GNU GRUB, LILO, SYSLINUX, or rEFInd. Use this tag for questions about installing, configuring or trouble-shooting software that is used to load Unix-like operating systems. Questions about boot loaders on Android or iOS devices are generally off-topic and are better asked on android.stackexchange.com or apple.stackexchange.com.
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Shorter menu titles in grub2
I would like to make the menu titles of grub2 shorter for them to fit in my theme. Namely,
Fedora 38 rescue
instead of
Fedora Linux (0-rescue-7ad84fe099814e3388129347d2a46891) 38 (KDE Plasma)
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Testing u-boot on qemu arm64 virtual machine
I'm trying to run u-boot on qemu arm64 virtual machine.
(qemu 6.2.0, u-boot v2022.07)
so I compiled u-boot using qemu_arm64_defconfig, it does build u-boot (and not u-boot-spl).
I made initrd ...
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I altered the partition table (resized the root and created a new partition and formatted it) but can't log into my arch system anymore
Yesterday, I had an idea of having two root partitions for my arch system, one which would contain packages and system files and another one to store my personal files (music, videos, etc).
With that ...
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Fedora Live USB in a partition?
I want to have with me a Fedora Live UEFI boot USB for emergencies, but I do not want to carry two USB drives. So I want a USB drive with two partitions, one for Fedora Live boot, and another for my ...
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GRUB failure, install kernel first; can't mount partition in write mode
GRUB failure, install kernel first; can't mount partition in write mode
After clean up on arch, grub is not loading:
Loading Linux linux-zen
error: file '/@/boot/valinux2-linux-zen' not found
Loading ...
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How does the `grub-pc` postinstall script know which device to install to?
I recently moved my Debian Testing (bookworm) system to a new SSD. My boot device used to be /dev/sdb but is now /dev/nvme0n1. I've edited config files such as crypttab and fstab as necessary. ...
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how to dual boot with bootx64.efi
My device:
Thinkpad X1 Carbon and with Windows 11 x64 home edition on it.
I am trying to install Fedora workstation 38 x86_64 with dual boot.
What I did:
In the fedora installation process, I mount ...
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Does my installed distro and live distro have to match when doing repairs? (eg. bootloader)
Can I use an LMDE-Mint live USB to repair my installed Garuda distro?
I broke my Garuda install after updating. After restoring a snapshot it still won't boot, which (as I understand) is a result of ...
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How can I remove an entry in the GRUB boot menu and have another menu item be the default to boot?
I had Ubuntu on my laptop, then I decided to install Kali Linux latest version 2023 but Ubuntu shows up in boot manager and I want to remove it.
How can I remove this Ubuntu showing up and directly ...
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How to replace rEFInd boot text with a image
I recently dual booted Arch and Windows and I've been playing around with Plymouth to try to make the boot up process more aesthetic and I found a really nice theme but rEFInd's boot up text ruins it ...
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Installing Linux alongside Windows without bootloader in the same SSD
I have W11 installed in my SSD (UEFI) and I want to install Linux (Kali) alongside it but without any bootloader (I'm ok with changing the booting OS in the UEFI when I want to go to Linux) (VM is not ...
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How to remove/hide boot options in rEFInd bootloader screen?
I'm using dual boot Windows 11 and Fyde OS. On my bootloader screen there are 3 other boot options which are not any OS, they are EFI and recovery partition. I want only Windows and Fyde OS boot logo ...
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Parrot OS installer error "Command 'grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --force /dev/sdb' returned non-zero exit status 1"
I encountered some errors when installing the Parrot sec OS 5.2.
This is the error message provided by the installer:
My computer supports UEFI mode and BIOS mode, and I have tried to use Rufus and ...
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How to know if computer uses GRUB or systemd-boot through SSH? (I have both /boot/grub and /boot/efi/EFI/systemd folders)
Without having access to the physical display, how can I know if my computer is being booted by grub or systemd-boot?
As I have writted on the tittle I have both /boot/grub/ and /boot/efi/EFI/systemd/ ...
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Boot into PREEMPT_RT kernel on Armbian Linux
I am using an Orange Pi board with an Armbian image. To perform some tasks, I need to be able to use it with the PREEMPT RT kernel. I installed the most recent rt kernel package that was available. ...
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How do I install grub on a drive separate from my root partition?
I currently, have a root partition from an arch install I did before, on an NVMe drive, but because my motherboard doesn't support booting from NVMe, I have to have my boot partition installed on a ...
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Dual-Boot Kali Linux and Fedora Workstation 37 Grub Menu Problem
I have Kali Linux and Fedora Workstation 37 installed on my machine, and I have been mostly using Fedora. I had customized the grub menu for Fedora (Kali grub boot loader was inactive), but after ...
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Failed to Start Journal Service Error on Pop! OS (Ubuntu) Boot
I recently was booting my laptop when I accidentally plugged in an RFID scanner device and scanned a card during the Pop! OS boot sequence (after cryptsetup and before login screen). The system then ...
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Can I dual boot between Arm and x86 binaries installed on a single disk?
Thanks to the Debian multi-arch system for GNU/Linux, I can install both ARM and x86 binaries on a single disk, even a single partition, the only requirement being a Linux-compatible filesystem such ...
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Partition keeps getting corrupted. How to prevent or boot anyway?
I am running RHEL7, and my audit log partition randomly (not often, but often enough to annoy me) gets corrupted, preventing me from booting. How can I either prevent the partition from being ...
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How to change the name of grub boot loader folder /boot to something else?
Title kind of says it all. I'm really trying to understand if the location of /boot is hardcoded into grub or what?
If bios looks at first 512 and finds grub...then grub must have it hard coded to ...
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Does "TUNED_BOOT_CMDLINE" /etc/tuned/bootcmdline overwrite BOOT_IMAGE of /proc/cmdline?
TuneD tool provides an option to configure kernel command line via TUNED_BOOT_CMDLINE variable of the /etc/tuned/bootcmdline, which is not done directly but via setting a desired TuneD performance ...
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Inconsistent bootloader times after grub, before kernel
EDIT:
I've narrowed down some specific processes- the format is
[good boot
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bad boot]
[8.154559] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null). Quota mode: none.
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"Recovering Dual Boot System with Missing Bootloader and 'grub_efi_secure_boot' Error"
I am having an issue with my dual boot system, which consists of Parrot OS and Windows. Recently, I had a problem with my system boot order where it was showing "operating system could not be ...
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On live boot USBs, where is the required filesystem label configured?
I could probably find this on google if I knew the verbiage to search for.
When booting a live USB, the bootloader always (at least for the distros I've used) looks for a filesystem with specific ...
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How does the kernel know it's resuming from hibernation, not booting?
When a Linux system hibernates and resumes from hibernation, I think that the kernel needs to know that it's resuming, not booting. Otherwise, the kernel will start the usual boot process, and will ...
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"Dual bank" booting with Grub2
Context: I'm working on some kind of kiosk system. The system can be upgraded every now and then, remotely, and I want it to work as reliably as possible.
In embedded system, it's a common practice to ...
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Why i keep getting bootloader error whentrying to dual boot?
So i'm using HP 280 G3 MT. I try to dual boot with Windows 10 and Linux. I have tried to do this with Linux Mint before, and i get Unable to install GRUB fatal error. When i restarted my PC, i get ...
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Installing a 3rd OS on a separate drive
Currently, I have win 10 and Kali on my laptop and want to install debian 11 also. Already read this and this questions however didn't get my answer, but looking at this one, I am kinda nervous.
Boot ...
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Booting from cloned Linux system
I have used CloneZilla to clone my fedora system to 32 GB USB flash, during cloning I have chosen Drive-Image. So now I have a 7.5 GB folder on USB Flash, which is my cloned system. The next step is ...
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How to get UEFI firmware settings back?
I had a Windows and Ubuntu boot USB and running fine
until I installed a Kali Linux USB bootable.
Now I can only use Ubuntu and Kali. I cannot access Windows OS boot manager nor UEFI firmware after ...
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u-boot disable console output log message
i have orangePI_pc_plus board and installed armbian on it and connected monitor via HDMI and i hide all kernal logs to it.
the problem is that i still see those u-boot message logs
i want to hide it ...
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Most Linux distributions do not boot after install
I have an interesting old Intel 64-bit computer in which most Linux installers fail to install the bootloader, making booting after installation impossible. When I turn on the computer after ...
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Boot Arguments with OpenLinuxBoot.efi
I'm using OpenCore on an iMac15,5, with the OpenLinuxBoot.efi driver to directly boot Fedora 37 with kernel 6.0.8, bypassing GRUB.
Normally, in my GRUB config, fedora would add some default boot ...
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Installing Linux Mint on an external drive (bootloader location etc.)
So I'm a bit anxious how to proceed, I don't want to cause any system issues, it doesn't help that after creating bootable USB and pre-partitioning SSD I saw ''Configuration changed - Restart the ...
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EFI won't load linux kernel in LFS
Lately, I've been building an LFS [Linux From Scratch] system for my Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer, and I'm currently on the very last step. I'm attempting to compile Linux 5.15 from the ...
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Debian live usb shows GRUB repair on boot
I am a total beginner in Linux and is trying to reinstall my system. I am using an Acer laptop with Intel cpu. My only operating system is Parrot OS (a Debian distro) and I accidentally deleted my /...
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Fedora is not booting
I have installed fedora and it worked like a charm.
When I rebooted it within say 15 mins, no problem.
But 1 or 2 hours, it failed to boot. No errors just black screen.
I tried other distributions too ...
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Is it possible to boot in a operatingsystem from another running os?
In the past I have seen a System and I still ask myself sometimes how it worked.
Let me explain first my memory:
There was computer system which booted into a non Windows System, with login GUI where ...
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Linux disappeared after installing Windows 10 but not as dual boot
I wanted to try Linux and got Linux mint 19.3 on my computer. After that I needed some windows apps and set up windows 10 but not as dual boot so the Linux disappeared. Is there a way to restore Linux ...
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syslinux bootloader unable to find the initrd.img for a custom bootable image made via Docker Containers
Description
As a side project, I am trying to use Hashicorp Packer along with Docker to create Bootable disk Images from Docker Containers.
Hashicorp Packer generally takes the responsibility of ...
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lsblk says that filesystem of EFI partition is crypto_LUKS, while diskutil says that it's FAT32 (dualbooting arch/mac)
I was trying to dual boot Arch on my MacBook. At first, I tried to install Arch with LUKS encryption. Unfortunately, in the middle of a guide, I understood that it was a bit outdated and I didn't have ...
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Deleted partition on dual Linux boot, booted to grub
I need to avoid data / OS loss on a dual laptop where I am unexpectedly booting into GRUB after a disk operation.
I have a machine with an Ubuntu-like distro and until a moment ago Xubuntu. The ...
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Booting from 'USB: USB SanDisk ... ' failed; verify it contains a 64-bit UEFI OS
I installed Debian on a USB drive using the regular install. When I tried booting from it it says on a black screen and won't let me go further:
Booting from 'USB: USB SanDisk ... ' failed; verify it ...
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Installing linux without USB flash drive using a partition. Boot menu doesn't recognize the partition
I am a newbie and I am planning to get Linux along with windows on my system using a dual boot setup. The issue is I have taken a round about way because i don't have a USB. So here is what I have ...
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How to start differently inside VM or raw firmware
tltr: How can we have different default entry/settings in uefi/bootloader based on hardware ?
I want two boot configurations with differents settings based on hardware. Typical usage is inside VM ...
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UEFI boot never runs from /dev/sda but works from rescue DVD
I have Hyper-V on my Windows 10 laptop, with a generation 1 VM running RHEL 7.9. I am attempting to update it to run on a generation 2 VM, using UEFI boot.
As part of the move to a gen-2 VM, I need ...
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Kali OS Not found, not booting
I have Kali Linux installed on my laptop's SSD, I have another SSD on which I wanted to install Windows as a backup. The process was successful, but the next day I went to boot up my laptop (with Kali)...
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Grub rescue preventing me to install/boot new os from usb stick
I have a HP laptop.I was having dual boot window 10 and ubantu. then i deleted ubantu partition along with grub boot partition.
I have USB bootable stick which filesystem is of type ExFat.
I made it ...
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After cloning OS, GRUB always boots from the source sda1 partition even when another partition is selected for booting
I have a laptop that should be running two Debian 9's, one Debian 11 and one Windows 10 from two disks, one hard disk drive, /sda/, and a new solid state drive, /nvme0n1/.
I used gparted to clone and ...
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