Boot (or booting) refers to the action of starting up a computer and getting it to run the operating system.
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How to boot Linux from image on disk or “Poor Man's Install”?
Is it possible to boot Linux with user space applications from file/image on disk?
I can copy content of any live image (for example from http://www.debian.org/CD/live/) to separate partition with ...
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Linux AutoNeoGrub0.mbr is corrupt of missing? [duplicate]
I've been trying to get my windows boot manager working so I can boot both Windows 7 and Linux. Currently, I can boot both, but only run when I click on "Windows 7" in the boot manager (Linux will run ...
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How did Linux get on sdc when I insalled it on sdb
I typed $fdisk -l into the terminal to see my partitions.
When I installed Linux I installed it on sdb, which shows up, but for some reason it says Linux under sdc.
This is what it looks like.
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Should I install Grub2 to /sda or /sdb?
I have Windows 7 (default OS) on my internal hard drive which is /sda.
I have Linux Mint 14 on my external hard drive, which is /sdb
I'm going to install grub2 using a command, but I'm not sure ...
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Linux Won't Boot From Option in Windows Boot Manager
I have a pre-existing option to boot from (Windows 7), and a also made a Linux option which was made from Easy BCD.
I'm able to load Linux when I click on Windows 7 (When my external HDD with it is ...
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flash disk size is not normal after using suse image writer
Ok I don't know what to do, and decided to ask here, here's the problem :
I have a 8 GB flash disk that i use to boot image. I decided to try opensuse 12.3, and then i use unetbootin to extract it to ...
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Status display after boot on Debian
I run some VM's and some of them are dedicated to several jobs. For example lets say that one machine is running samba and ftp services and another is running Apache and some database.
Now what I ...
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MacBook Air startup disk not found, but verified
I have a MacBook Air that has suddenly stopped booting at all. I booted into recovery mode and see the harddrive fine in Disk Utility. The partition is there as well marked: Mac OS X Base System. I ...
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How to set boot disk flag with diskpart
My Windows Server 2008 R2 won't start and stops with Stop 7B, so I start the recovery console and use diskpart to check the disk. There are to partitions one of Type 17 and one of type 07, the detail ...
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Occasional display issues
I'm currently experiencing some issues that seem to happen randomly.
When I boot up I can see the boot screen right until the windows logon, and both my monitors go in sleep mode. One's connected via ...
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How can a param be added to boot-command but not accepted by sysctl?
I can successfully add libata.ignore_hpa=1 to my boot command and the following cmd will yield a '1' upon boot:
cat /sys/module/libata/parameters/ignore_hpa
but grep'ing sysctl -a for libata and ...
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BIOS error - attempting to boot
A friend's computer is getting this error screen while trying to boot:
It boots up, gets into BIOS, then shuts down and boots again, never getting to an operating system. I had to record a video ...
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Unknown Filesystem Error with my live USB Ubuntu after suspension
There are a lot of posts concerning the nasty "unknown filesystem" error and the grub rescue prompt, but mine is rather peculiar.
My Ubuntu 13.04 is installed entirely on my flash drive, and by ...
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Installing Ubuntu on a GPT partitioned drive
I have changed my system to boot from UEFI instead of BIOS and have installed Windows 7 on my internal SSD which has GPT partition type.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 on my external HDD. My ...
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Installing Windows onto 2nd drive then removing 1st drive
I have Windows 8 installed on a hard drive and I have just purchased an SSD drive that I'm going to slap Windows 8 onto as well, with the view to chuck the old hard drive out.
I have installed the ...
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Windows 7 & 8 dual boot MBR broken
I had a dual boot with Windows 7 and Windows 8, where Windows 7 was first and on the C:\ drive, 8 on the D:\ drive. I booted up into Windows 7 and deleted Windows 8 files (I should've deleted it ...
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creating bootable USB with win XP using a virtualbox and dd
I able to succesfully move linux installed on VirtualBox from virtual hard drive to physical usb drive.
I use unix dd command to read whole virtial harddrive and use physical usb flashdisk as output ...
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Unable to boot into Windows 8
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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Keyboard is not responding before windows boots
I have an older desktop computer running Windows XP, and the keyboard doesn't respond at any point before the Windows logon screen is displayed. I need to reinstall Windows, but I can't get to BIOS or ...
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Resizing a FAT32 partition on a bootable USB using GParted fails
I have a 16GB FAT32 formatted USB. I've installed many bootable ISOs on it using Your Universal MultiBoot Installer.
I'm trying to resize the partition YUMI is installed on to minimum size (all the ...
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Create a bootable USB with DFT using UNetbootin
My Dell inspiron 8600 crashed and on restarting its showing the "unmountable boot volume" error. Occasionally the HDD is also making a strange clicking noise. I suppose the HDD has died. It looks like ...
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Power-on button takes a long time to work after PSU is turned on
I have a four-year-old Dell Inspiron 530 desktop with onboard video and recently it started to show this weird behavior (sorry, it’s a long post…).
The computer is connected to a voltage regulator, ...
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How to add the restore option to the windows xp boot menu?
My Asus EEEPC 1002HA has 3 partitions - C, E (where Linux used to be installed) and D (system restore files are located there out of the box). After Linux uninstallation i restored windows xp boot ...
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will pre-installed windows 8 on laptop boot if I disable secure boot in BIOS?
I have laptop with 2 HDD (Toshiba P870) and Windows 8 preinstalled on the first drive.
Secure boot is enabled.
When I install Linux (Ubuntu 12.04.2) on second drive it can't boot because of ...
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Win PE won't find my Network card
I'm trying to install windows7 x64 to a desktop with damaged optical drive. I have a laptop with windows7 x64 on which I'm trying to run a TFTP server for network booting of windows7 to my desktop. I ...
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on booting pendrive having xp sp3 os. it is not loading but it shows my pendrive device
already i've installed win 7 os now i want to install win xp sp3 in same lap. my lap's cd drive is not workingn so im using pendrive boot. on booting it shows pendrive device but it is showing BLANK ...
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How to make a USB flash drive bootable for Linux on an iMac? [duplicate]
I want to make a USB flash drive bootable on my Mac (iMac 12,1), so I can run a live version of any Linux-derivate and check for viruses on my Boot Camp partition.
I've already tried creating one ...
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Going from two hdd to one hdd cannot boot
I've had two HDD both with Vista installed on them. This is because the old Hitachi HDD failed previous and I added a Seagate HDD and just loaded Vista onto one of its two partitions. Normally when I ...
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Diagnosing boot performance on Win7
I am trying to diagnose the problems I've been having with boot-up on my machine.
The system drive is an SSD, so it should be fairly quick.
However there is one moment, right after the "Welcome" wheel ...
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The purpose of this screen at boot time (thinkpad t43, archlinux)
I see this screen at boot time and I'm prompted to question about it given that it is displayed at every boot for a relatively long time (perhaps a minute or more). What is it's purpose and can it be ...
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Windows Vista fails to boot BSOD
After fresh reinstall I get an error which says to run CHKDSK on the computer and the error code is 0x0000007B. I didn't even manage to boot it once.
I managed to run checkdisk from vista installation ...
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How to format unrecognized USB drive?
I have used Unetbootin on one of my USB drive, and it seems to have partitioned it some way that it's no longer recognized by any OS. It's not even listed when I turn on my computer and press F12 to ...
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Having installed fedora, I have lost capacity to boot into any OSs via BIOS or UEFI
(Running on Asus TaiChi)
When I try to boot without USB, I get sent straight to setup screen. If I press esc prior to setup screen, I enter the Please select boot device boot dialog. However, my only ...
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Checking NVRAM on BootUp
I've recently encountered with my desktop the other day. the problems were like this
Computer boots up. and Shows this Message
F1 for Setup and Configuration
F2 to load default values
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Bootmgr is missing
I have seen many posts about this issue but none of them helped me solve my problem. I just installed a new SSD on my laptop. On the old HDD I have two partitions (Windows and Linux). I cloned the ...
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Boot manager issues in Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)
I've just bought a computer with an i5-3750K processor and an Intel DB75EN motherboard.
After installing Windows 7 Professional (64-bit), which is the only OS, the boot manager always shows on ...
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How do I restore windows 8 / hard drive after hard drive overwrite?
So I have been a bit of an idiot... I was installing fedora and I clicked through the partitioning without much attention assuming that fedora would be installed in dual boot. It seems to have ...
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Hard drive missing from boot sequence
I have a laptop with Windows 8. I decided to install Ubuntu. It didn't offer me to install it with Win8, though according to the docs it should have, or at least if I had win7. I clicked Something ...
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Windows 7 laptop keeps restarting if external hard drive isn't connected
My laptop restarts whenever I try to start Windows without my external HDD connected - after I log in an error message pops up (one of those 0x... errors) but it reboots before I can read what it ...
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Windows 7 Boots up fine in Safe mode with Network, Normal Bootup just shows black screen with cursor How to troubleshoot?
As the title says, I get a black screen with a cursor.
If I boot into safemode with networking, all is fine.
I've disabled all startup items in msconfig, but not sure what I should do next. Any ...
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Repairing Windows 8 after trying to dual boot it with Fedora 18
As the title states, I turned off secure boot and installed fedora 18 as usual using a liveUSB installer. This seems to have really miffed windows and now it refuses to boot.
Grub2 comes up fine, I ...
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What is the EFI shell?
My BIOS offers me the option to launch an EFI shell, but I have no idea what that is. Does it allow me to turn on CPU flags like VT-x or something similar? Why would I want to use it?
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Files in /etc/init - are all files executed or just the ones with conf extension?
I have some files in /etc/init that I am still testing. As far as I know all files in that directory is executed on boot.
My doubt is: does it apply to every *.conf file or to all of them? What if I ...
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How to install Windows 7 on formatted drives?
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a formatted drive from DVD, but I always get an error which says that the drive does not have bootmgr:
BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
When I ...
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Revert Windows 7 boot animation to something like vista or xp
I know that people have the issue if the number of vertical pixels on their screen is less than 768, they will get a vista like boot animation. Is there a way to do this for a computer that normally ...
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Gentoo based custom Live CD won't boot
I followed this guide for building a Gentoo based custom live CD but I didn't manage to preform a complete boot.
The kernel boots from the initrd and start scanning modules. After that it states ...
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Internal hard disk not detected in bios
I planned to put dual OS for that purpose I used gparted application, In that application unfortunately I deleted system reserved partition 100 MB NTFS drive.
After I deleted my hard disk it wasn't ...
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Migrating Windows 7 from MBR to EFI without formatting
Based on the experience documented in Migrate from MBR to UEFI with an encrypted system partition
I'm considering the opportunity to migrate Windows 7 from the plain ol' MBR to the new GPT/UEFI boot ...
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Windows xp restart just logon screen
I have both windows xp and ubuntu installed in my pc. The problem started 2 days back. Ubuntu boots and runs without problems. When i boot windows xp, it shows the loading screen and just before login ...
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Install Windows 7 Manually
My Windows 7 is in a black screen with cursor before login in all boot modes state. It says I have no restore points (when I actually do) and I have tried all recovery options. It happened after I ran ...
