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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Enter key doesn't work anymore. What can I do?
While I was using the computer, the enter key doesn't work anymore on my laptop ( hp nx7300 ).
The problem is that the BIOS has a password so I can't go on ubuntu without writing the password and ...
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No icons, launcher, top panel or anything else while 'Try Ubuntu' 13.04
I just got Ubuntu 13.04 to my USB and pressed 'Try Ubuntu' and that worked very well, so I decided to install. At the end of the install I got a fail message and it said something about the boot ...
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Authority wrong and can not boot to desktop
I am so stupid and make a wrong operation. I type sudo chown -R root.root /bin /sbin /etc /var /usr. And of course it turns to wrong. Don't ask me why do this, I said I am stupid :(.
First it turns ...
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All Linux installations fail on my laptop
I just bought an Acer Aspire S3, Intel i5 and Intel HD 4000. At first there was Windows 7 and I deleted it, then installed Ubuntu 12.10. Everything went OK and then I updated it to 13.04. Then the ...
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creating shared storage space for linux build on 32 GB USB
I'm building LFS to a 32 GB USB key and I am wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for some information on how to format my USB key to meet the following requirements:
when ...
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Installation of CentOS on external Hard Disk
I installed CentOS on an external hard disk and it works correctly with one of my computers. However, when I boot CentOS from the external disk on my other computer, it throws an error: kernel panic - ...
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Will Linux Boot Faster if I install it to My Hard Drive?
I currently have a live usb of Linux Mint 14, and while I'm pretty happy with it, I just want to confirm, will it boot faster if I actually install it onto my hard drive? That would be the main reason ...
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How to dual boot RHEL 6 and Windows 8?
The Situation:
I have an ASUS Notebook with Windows 8 preinstalled, i created a new partition and installed RHEL 6 to that partition, but the computer keeps booting into Windows 8 without going into ...
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Black Screen, Blinking Cursor (Ubuntu install) Super Grub 2 works
FIRST: I know this same problem has been discussed, but I have tried things and haven't found anything regarding Super Grub 2 and such.
Well the issue is pretty much defined in the title, but to be ...
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Arch linux wont boot from the usb
well i mean it starts. but then i get an error saying:
ERROR: ' /dev/disk/by-label/' device did not show up after 30 seconds
falling back to interctive prompt
you can try to fix the problem manually, ...
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Changing from Linux Suse 11 to Win 7 x64 failed
I bought a new laptop (HP ProBook 4540s, Intel Pentium B980, 4GB, DDR3 1333 MHz) which came with a Linux SUSE Enterprise. As this laptop is going to be used by a IT beginner, it has to run on Win 7.
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What are the disadvantages of not using UEFI boot?
I bought a Samsung series 9 laptop with 64-bit Windows 8 pre-installed and wish to install Linux (probably Ubuntu 13.04 when it comes out ext week, but also considering mint 14). Now there have been ...
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Howto create a bootable pendrive for windows manually on Linux? [duplicate]
I've been trying around but am not through yet. Where is my procedure failing? I have a 2G usb disk which I prepare the following way:
1 - Make a partition with fdisk yielding /dev/sdb1
2 - mkfs.ntfs ...
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Howto start the windows xp installation routine from usb created on linux [duplicate]
I have an Windows XP iso on an external hard disk which I mounted in my linux box. Using
dd if=winxp.iso of=/dev/usbinstallationstick bs=100M
I copied the ISO's contents (how did dd know I wanted ...
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Booting an encrypted system from a flash drive without user interaction
I have an unused desktop that I'm planning on turning to a household server running (hopefully) Arch Linux. I know that I can fully encrypt the system and have to enter a password upon each boot but I ...
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Kernel panic after power loss
I have some PC systems meant for exhibition use, that are switched off by power loss some times. The systems use a vanilla Lubuntu Linux from SATA attached IDE drives. Now quite frequently, the ...
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Jittery console after booting into Debian?
This is a weird problem. I think the main thing that's stopping me from fixing it myself is that I can't Google it because I have no idea what terminology I should use.
So I installed Debian today as ...
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legacy grub: updated menu.lst is not used
This is a CentOS 6.4 with all updates inside Virtualbox OSE (quite old version).
All information below refers to the VM, I don't think there is any issue on the host.
/boot is a separate ext2 fs on ...
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Can't boot into linux on gpt-partition external drive on a pc
I've got an external HDD "Seagate Backup Plus 1TB". It's partitioned using the GPT scheme and carries two file partitions, an hfs+ OSX partition with OSX operating system installed, and an ext4 ...
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Installed Debian on a PC, now cannot boot to anything else
I installed Debian (6.07) on a PC. I wanted to install Ubuntu (12.10) after, but I could not boot to CD after Debian was installed. In fact no bootable disk(CD or floppy) would load once Debian was ...
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Linux/CentOS how to permanent inititate DHCP Client any reboot?
In my CentOS, i need to run dhclient -v command at every time i start/reboot the server. How to make this permanent please?
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Linux machine refuse to boot with invalid elf header
Recently, after a power supply crash problem, my linux machine (Centos 5.5 X64) did not boot neither gnome nor shell. On gnome startup it shows this error:
/etc/X11/prefdm: line 16: ...
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Boot CD from Linux Command Line
I'm trying to boot my cd through Linux Command Line however it doesn't work.
My CD should be compatible with Linux.
Kindly advise if any commands would be able to boot the CD as well as the program.
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Set refind as default boot loaader on a mac. ( Having trouble saving bless settings )
I have done quite a bit net surfing and have not been able to find a solution to my problem.
Here is the background info:
The refind boot loader is installed to my EFI partition on the mac (sda1)
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how to dual boot Redhat and ubuntu on using different partitions
I want to dual boot my laptop using RedHat and Ubuntu in different partitions.
My hardisk contains the following partitions:
/boot ==> redhat boot partition 300MB
/SWAP ===> 8GB
/ ===> ...
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How to prevent microsoft windows from running on a pc [closed]
Suggest I have a PC with either a BIOS with the commonly available options or a UEFI. Is there any way to change the settings so NO Windows NT based System will boot anymore (not even Windows PE ...
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Confirmed success with installing linux on Samsung UEFI laptop? [closed]
I am aware that the specific question and possible solution about this has been asked before:
How to safely install GNU/Linux distro on a Samsung UEFI enabled laptop
However what I am looking for is ...
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Ubuntu Drive Mount Order
I have two drives, a 120GB SSD and a 2TB HD. I set the BIOS to boot from the SSD, and an the Drives window of Ubuntu it tells me the SSD is SDB and the HD is SDA. I would expect the SSD to be SDA ...
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What is the use of the [BOOT]/Bootable_NoEmulation.img file on several boot images?
I've seen a file called [BOOT]/Bootable_NoEmulation.img on several boot images, and always wondered what it's use is. Neither found a suitable magic number nor could Google help me so I ask here.
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CD- and USB-less install of Linux Mint 14…from Haiku and/or BeOS
I have a system that boots BeOS and Haiku nightly, and has a spare partition which I used to have PC-BSD booting on. (I use Haiku's BootManager on .../master/raw.) I want to try Linux Mint 14, but I ...
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How to make iso image in Ubuntu linux that booted from live usb?
How to make an iso image in Ubuntu 12.04 linux that booted from live usb?
The normal way as I understand is to use dd:
umount /dev/cdrom
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/media/EOS_DIGITAL/snow_leopard_cd_bydd
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Is HDD recovery possible in this case?
I have laptop HP 4320s with seems to be dead disk, but I could get some info from it.
Seems to be dead it is because it isn't seen by BIOS and hence there is no boot from it. But when I'm looking ...
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Upstart scripts causing problems
I like to start little web servers on boot. I've been using upstart, but often my scripts fail, causing important services like sshd to fail to start. What's a safer way to do this?
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Linux, boot into terminal mode
I have install catalyst for ATI in fedora 17, I'm stuck on a black screen when the system is booting, how can i force the system to boot in command line so that i can remove the catalyst packages??
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After installing upstart Raspberrypi gets stuck in boot
I recently installed upstart blindly replacing things I shouldn't of been. The results was that now my raspberry pi is stuck on
Setting up X socket directories... /tmp/.X11-unix /tmp/.ICE-unix
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How do I replace an OS a certain partition with a different OS?
My current setup is that I have a Windows/Arch Linux dual booting system, and I simply want to replace Arch Linux with Linux Mint without affecting the Windows.
I believe my situation is complicated ...
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Operating System not found when loading DD image in VMware
I provide much details below to hopefully make my issue as clear as possible.
Using dd if=/dev/ps3da2 of=/mnt/edexhdd/EDPS3LINUX.iso bs=16384 I copied a fairly huge partition from a physical Linux ...
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Laptop freezes upon booting Linux distributions from USB flash drive
I'm trying to boot a live distro on a VAIO YB35AL ultrabook. It doesn't have an optical drive, so I'm using a USB flash drive, and deploying the Linux ISOs to it using either unetbootin or Universal ...
