Questions tagged [grub]
This tag is ambiguous: use grub2 or grub-legacy as appropriate.
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User friendly way to apply BadRAM patterns
My Linux machine is having issues with faulty RAM. I ran PCMemTest-64, and I determined the following patterns:
Now, I have stock Ubuntu which doesn't seem to have the BadRAM patch, and I'm a bit ...
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upgrade grub 0.97 to grub2 in opensuse 11.3
I want to update grub on my opensuse 11.3 machine from 0.97 to grub2
this is how it looks like when i invoke grub-install
can anyone help me out here on how to upgrade to grub2
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Stuck in GRUB when Booting Parrot OS
I am attempting to boot Parrot OS Home 5.2 onto a HP Stream 11 Laptop (N4120, 64gb eMMC) with no present OS. I have followed a tutorial for dual booting the first time I installed Parrot OS, and I ...
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Installing Linux on HP Pavilion 360, preventing loops that eat all resources
When installing a Linux OS (e.g. Mint) from a live cd (now more likely: from a live USB stick, or using Ventoy), editing /etc/default/grub does not solve the problem. You can add or edit a line like
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can't boot windows after installing kali linux
following happend to me and i don't kow how to fix it. Tried everything i could found.
I've installed kali linux on a seperate partition, but forgot to register a user so i couldn't login. Grub was ...
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Passing a boot menu option to GRUB on a Live USB drive?
I have an ubuntu system, and I want to have a semi-automated way of running a clonezilla unattended image / re-image from a USB drive.
To that end, I've modified the GRUB menu items to be along these ...
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Create custom bootable linux image; not a livecd
So I've compiled my kernel and initrd. How can I then create an image and install grub to actually load this image from a disk? My goal isn't to create a livecd out of it that is bootable from USB, as ...
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Linux boot parameter ignored when not placed last
I'm using ubuntu 22.04, with linux kernel 5.19.0
My laptop has a dead hard drive, which is very sad, but I can't do much about it.
What I (hope I) can do however, is finding a way to avoid having to ...
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Debian 11: Recovery Mode from grub menu doesn't work because root user is locked, how to enable Recovery Mode?
Context: Ubuntu user considering moving to Debian so trying some test installs.
In Ubuntu you could choose the advanced options from the grub menu, select recovery mode, and if friendly-recovery was ...
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How to restore the main kernel from the rescue kernel in Fedora 37
I have a Fedora 37 installation which kernel was corrupted when trying to setup propietary nvidia graphics. I lost wifi and all control to the screen. Booting into the rescue option in Grub fixes it ...
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Grub can't add entry for windows on another hard drive (dual boot)
Recently, I've installed Linux (MintOS) on my ssd drive. Also I have Windows 10 on my hdd drive. Windows was installed before linux.
The problem is that grub loader don't see windows loader and I can'...
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My computer always boots into grub
I have recently installed tiny11 on my computer and when i installed internet explorer in extra features. I got tiny11 because i was tired of ubuntu so i change it to tiny11. For some reason tiny11 ...
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Is there a way to get the computer (or hard drive) product name in grub 2.0?
I've tried cpuid among other things, but I can't seem to get the computer model. For example, the output I'm looking for would be something like:
grub> computermodel
HP Notebook 2016
Thanks.
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Grub always shows command line, can't fix it
After using timeshift to restore a previous snapshot, the grub now boots into command line. If I type the following commands I can get back to Ubuntu (KDE neon):
> set prefix=(hd0,gpt1)/efi/grub (...
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Blinking Cursor on Black Screen with No TTY Access after Pacman Update
I'm currently using a dual-boot of Windows and Archcraft, and even after what happened to Linux, Windows works fine.
After a little bit more than 6 months of great use of Archcraft, I decided to make ...
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Maintaining multiple UEFI partitions
Currently, I have 6 internal drives with 6 different OSes (Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Arch Linux) installed on each of them. Each drive has its own EFI partition, so that I ...
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PC not booting up after dual booting Linux alongside windows
I tried to dual boot Linux mint-21 on my windows 10 computer using a live USB.
During the installation I chose the "free space" as a ext4 partition and proceeded to install. Linux installed ...
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Arch Linux dual boot with Windows not working
Despite having os-prober installed and enabled and the Windows drive that's mounted containing "bootmgfw.efi", os-prober isn't seeing Windows and I'm not sure why.
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What does (any) Windows do to EFI partition during an update (in general)?
If someone has any information about Windows update actions, please share.
I'm currently running Pop!_OS 22.04 (and other several temporary distros) and booting to it through rEFInd. So, I heard a lot ...
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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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update-grub on Debian 11 fails
I am trying to update the grub config on a Debian 11 VM. I was using the update-grub command, but this doesn't see to work anymore. I also tried grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg command, which ...
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Cutefish on Debian won't load windowing environment
Well this is weird. After 20+ years of various distros, all the way back to RedHat before it was Fedora, I guess I haven't seen it all.
Was installing Mozilla on Cutefish using the .deb Package ...
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Old Macbook (white plastic body Macbook 3,1) with Ubuntu shows grub shell when booting
I have an old Macbook (white plastic body Macbook 3,1) which I use for driving my telescope. Recently I installed Astronomy Linux (Ubuntu) on it (https://sourceforge.net/projects/astronomy-linux-21-04/...
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`update-grub` command fails to set theme changes made in /etc/default/grub; may be particular to Kali
Tealdeer at the bottom.
Hoo boy have I strugglebussed with this one. Pertinent details to follow, but first a quick overview of what's going on. No matter where I look, I cannot seem to find the file ...
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can't find grub folder in /boot
I recently picked up a small size SSD that I wanted to put into my laptop via a CD drive bay adapter. After getting everything installed and set up I set up a clonezilla thumb drive so I can clone the ...
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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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Select boot os from network
I manage a small computer lab that is dual boot linux and windows. We use grub to select which OS to boot to. We would like to make it where the computer queries a network location to determine ...
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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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Lubuntu booting straight to Grub, sometimes saying cannot load kernel
I recently installed Lubuntu via a USB drive. It works great, but I have found one major problem. Upon booting up my laptop, it opens two one of two things.
The first is a Grub command line. If I ...
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Do I need to open-source my operating system if I used grub as my bootloader in my ISO
Ok, so I was following the bare bones tutorial on how to create an OS and then I saw a warning when adding grub to the ISO that I have GPLed software in my program (OS). According to the GPL, I need ...
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grub not loading after adding an HDD
I have an SSD dual booted with windows 11 and manjaro. I installed an HDD today, now grub won't show up. I reinstalled grub using live usb but every time my PC directly boots into windows. The boot ...
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Inconsistent bootloader times after grub, before kernel
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I've narrowed down some specific processes- the format is
[good boot
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[8.154559] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null). Quota mode: none.
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Arch wont boot after installing windows 10
After i installed windows 10 the windows started successfully but Arch would not boot completely. it would shutdown the computer after reaching the log screen.
despite usual problems i have access to ...
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Unable to install on UEFI anymore
I have an Acer Aspire E15 Start computer with which I have had a problem for a long time and which I cannot solve today.
One day I tried to install the latest version of the Debian operating system on ...
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How to enter rescue mode (RescueInitramfs) on Debian server?
I am trying to boot into RescueInitRamfs (https://wiki.debian.org/RescueInitramfs) on my Debian server after configuring DropBear as per https://benediktkr.github.io/ops/2015/05/01/remote-fde.html (...
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How do I update GRUB with a custom kernel in Rocky Linux?
On most Linux system, after update the initramfs (mkinitrd, dracut, update-initramfs...)
you "refresh" grub2 with this command
update-grub2
or this one
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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Error in Ubuntu Dual Boot Partitions: import_mok_state failed
I installed Ubuntu 22.04.1 as dual boot along Windows 10 following this tutorial using a USB. But after restart Ubuntu wouldn't load. I tried this 4 times. Then, I deleted the dual booted ...
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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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Is it possible to unlock the grub boot with a usb key?
I have successfully setup a Slackware with boot encrypted partition
Grub ask me for luks password and decrypt the boot, then my ROOT partition encrypted read from a usb key a file and decrypt the ROOT ...
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Is it possible to use hibernation while not using swap on Linux?
On Windows it is possible to use hibernation while not using any swap.
I wonder if this is possible on Linux?
Because on my Debian 11 I find this line in /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=&...
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computer going into gnu grub when removeable media is not plugged in
i tried installing dualboot ubuntu onto a micro sd card and now when it is not plugged in my computer boots into gnu grub. when i type exit it says "checking media presence" before saying &...
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grub on efi loads kernel but will not boot it
insmod normal
insmod btrfs
insmod part_gpt
set root=(hd0,2)
menuentry 'Ubuntu' {
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/core.gz
boot
}
Hi, I am learning how to ...
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How to change my next boot default in grub
I have a windows debian dual boot and I use it remotely. There apparently is no way to change grub when logged into windows. If I am in linux, I can change grub defaults to windows and reboot. But ...
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HP EliteBook 840 G1 with issues booting Ubuntu after converting to UEFI
I recently migrated my system to UEFI boot.
The system is a HP EliteBook 840 G1, with a SATA hard disk. Ubuntu is the only operating system.
I converted the disk to GPT, added the necessary partitions,...
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First time installation of Fedora from bootable USB fails to boot
After the bootloader, the last thing I see before systemd fills my screen, and then it goes blank, is the following:
I am trying to install Fedora 37 to replace my current Windows 10. Mo matter if I ...
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Removing kernel.img from my grub in yocto
The boot partition contains a kernel image that is put there by bitbake machinery.
and eventually this is installed to my rootfs (still could'nt identify which recipe is installing it ).
I would like ...
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Copy partition and boot from new copied partition
I am trying to create a script to create an image of an entire partition, restore the image in another partition and boot from the new partition.
I am having problems with the last part, i.e. making ...
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Debian 11 upgrade grub freezes
In the course of an update of my NAS OS some errors occurred. The NAS is running OpenMediaVault with Debian as the base operating system. During the update, Debian 10 (Buster) was upgraded to Debian ...
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Bitlocker requires recovery key after debian upgrade
I have dual boot configured on the same disk. There was Windows 10 (encrypted by BitLocker) on the first partition and Debian (bullseye encrypted by LUKS) on the second one. Moreover there was secure ...
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arch-linux entry disappeared from bios boot
I had to replace my disk for some time and after putting it back the linux is no longer available in the bios boot menu. Also this ASUS bios is not allowing to load an efi image (ASUS CM6731 version ...
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