Boot (or booting) refers to the action of starting up a computer and getting it to run the operating system.
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Ubuntu Server is not starting [closed]
I had my Ubuntu Server 12.04 running for a few weeks until today, when power cut happened.
Since then it's not starting, monitor is displaying unsupported resolution message (there is no GUI support ...
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Windows Vista stuck beforestart up
I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows vista, and ever since about a year ago it has been nothing but trouble.
The computer has had multiple viruses, which we have gotten fixed, even though we have had ...
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Intel BOXDH77KC won't boot Linux GPT disk
To be complete, it won't get to grub without going through the boot menu - even if the disk is the only option in the boot menu. (It's annoying enough that I have to hit F10 every time I boot that I ...
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Parallels Ubuntu not booting
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 in Parallels Desktop 7.
I was trying to sudo apt-get install subversion. But I was asked to apt-get -f install. I did it. But after some time, i was asked to restart my ...
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CPU freeze for 15 - 20mins only during boot up from S4 state
I have a doubt about my CPU with AMI BIOS.
I always get a hang at BIOS check point 75 & 78 (especially 78 for more than 15mins)
And the odd thing is that this only happen when CPU boot up from ...
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How would I make a bootable CD/USB drive that auto-boots a system from a specific, non-default hard drive?
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I have a system that consistently forgets hard drive boot order. I specify it in the BIOS, and after the next reboot, it's gone. My primary boot drive is on an addon card (SAS HBA). The ...
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Windows 8 & Ubuntu 12.10 Dual Boot: Windows 8 as default OS
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) on my laptop with Windows 8 already installed. The installation went successfully and I get to use ubuntu alongside Windows 8. Since I am new quite ...
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Why does my VM hang on “Windows is loading files…” during a sysprep and capture task sequence?
My nice, well crafted reference machine will not boot at all! I'm trying to run a sysprep and capture task sequence (MDT 2010 and WDS off server 2012). I ran litetouch.vbs off the deployment share ...
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How to set default boot operating system
My laptop can currently boot off Windows 7 and Windows 8, with Windows 8 set as my default operating system.
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 off a USB Drive onto a partition on my hard drive, but when I ...
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Can't boot from Hiren Boot installed on USB
I got error "Caution: This hard disk may be infected by virus!" while booting from Hiren USB flash drive. I have no idea this is bios message or Hiren. How to make my Dell to boot from flash drive?
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Win 7 boot from eSATA but change drive letter
unlike USB you can boot a fully functioning Windows from a eSATA port.
But the Windows I am booting from all programs in Registry are attached to C: fireFox, etc.
I can manually edit the registry ...
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Boot Ubuntu on SSD drive from windows bootloader (with or without easyBCD)
Hello Superuser community,
I'm facing a problem I can't find any solution to, after sooo much reading on the web.
Here's the situation
I have a laptop with 2 drives (sorry I could not add the ...
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No partitions found when installing Windows 7
I am trying to install windows 7 on my HDD, it boots and everything, but when it comes to selecting a partition to install on I cant find any.
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UBUNTU boot into terminal
I have a Ubuntu 12.10 VM and I do not want the Graphical desktop to boot because it is very heavy. I wish that Ubuntu boot only in text and if I wish, I should be able to start Graphical. Please let ...
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Cant boot windows7 of primary partition does not show in windows RE
somethings really messed up here.
I have a 750gb sata drive primary partition is 250 MB 2nd partition is the rest.
Windows 7 is installed on the primary partition.
I cant boot into windows it just ...
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Boot Camp startup problems when using “Startup Disk” but not when using “Option” key on startup
On my iMac mid-2010, there are essentially two ways to start up Boot Camp (mine has Windows 7 in it). The first is to open up System Preferences, click on "Startup Disk", then choose the Windows ...
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Installed Linux Mint next to Windows 8, now I can't access Windows 8
I have two hard drives. One with Windows 8, the other I was using for w8 "File History". I decided to try Linux Mint on it. I installed Mint just fine on my second hard drive. Now when I reboot I ...
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Computer restarts after 7 seconds
I moved an old computer into a smaller case, switching out the motherboard, memory, power supply and cooling system. Now the computer tries to startup and restarts after 7 or 8 seconds. I tried ...
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black screen with blinking cursor
I wanted to downgrade a computer from Windows 8 to Windows 7. When I tried to install using Windows 7 installation disk on boot, and I tried to install on a partition, I would get
windows cannot be ...
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Computer does not BOOT, POST, show any image nor react to power button once turned on? [duplicate]
Well I have a Packard Bell Easy.. something, I don't know the model anymore, but it's a 6 years old Desktop and it worked pretty well until last night.
The problem is that when I boot it on the ...
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hp g7 screen dark on login need corrective action
I have a HP g7 that's running Fedora 17 which has a dark unlit screen on login. I need the exact keystrokes I need to type in order to sign in, so that I don't need to use a flash light to see the ...
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command at boot, before another script
This should be an easy question, but as a solaris novice, I'm stuck.
I have to launch a change MAC address command at boot (i.e. ifconfig bge0 ether).
If I do this at terminal, everything goes smooth.
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Windows 8 can't load from UEFI but loads by selecting the device
just replaced my CD/DVD-ROM in my notebook with an SSD, installed Windows 8 on it but got a damn annoying problem - the computer can't boot by the UEFI, I get the error of winload.exe missing and the ...
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PC won't boot from flash drive after computer hibernated (grub on hdd corrupt too)
I had 3 OS installed: Windows 7 , Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 in my Acer Aspire 4253 laptop.
I deleted the partition of Mageia and my grub got corrupted.
I didn't have an installation DVD of either Win7 ...
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Overwrite current Ubuntu partition
I have a dual-boot system with Ubuntu already installed. I am currently downloading Ubuntu 12.04 and wish to replace the Ubuntu partition which already exists, with the new ISO.
I am currently at ...
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Toshiba Satellite C655-S5132 laptop fails to boot on first few attempts
I have a Toshiba Satellite C655-S5132 laptop (Windows 7). If I leave it alone for a while and then try to boot it, it fails. The fan turns on and then gradually winds down to a stop. The display ...
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How to disable CTRL-C during init process?
I have set up a kiosk system with Linux Debian Wheezy. After booting a user gets logged in automatically, executing startx through /etc/inittab.
Problem is that people could shutdown the machine or ...
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Windows freezes on boot after re-cabling of the motherboard
I upgraded my PC from 4 GB of RAM up to 24 GB (the maximum amount that my motherboard supports). I also bought a new case and re-cabled everything in order to move everything to the new case.
After ...
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Automatic Bootup
Is there any way I can make my old laptop, a HP Pavilion dv2225la, boot up automatically say at 7:00 each morning? I know I can shut it down automatically, but boot up? Does anyone have any ideas? ...
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Graphics card doesn't always load
I have a rather strange problem. Occasionally when I boot, the GRUB screen has lots of black lines across it, and the screen is at a low resolution. If I let it boot through to Windows 7 or Ubunutu ...
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Unable to boot into Vista recovery partition on Compaq notebook
I have a Compaq Presario C735ET laptop which is designed only for Windows Vista. There is not any driver for Windows XP or Windows 7 so I am stuck with Vista.
Because I was not very happy with Vista, ...
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Windows 7 does not boot after adding a partition
A new partition was made using following steps:
Click to open Computer Management.If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
In ...
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Dual boot + isolate
I have a dual boot set up for Windows 7 and Windows 8 which are both installed on the same hard drive but in two separate partitions. My Windows 7 machine has unrecognized software which may contain ...
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Error Loading Operating System when booting to a dual partitioned USB drive
I seem to have an odd issue with a dual partitioned usb drive, here is my setup:
I created 2 partitions on my external hard drive. One partition has my bootable Windows environment ( WinPE 3.0 ) ...
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Pc freezes/crashes at startup (even in bios) for the first 2-10 minutes
My pc freezes/crashes for the first 2-10 minutes something like 3 to 5 times in the operating system or even in the bios screen. After 10 minutes this never happens again and I can use it to do ...
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Not booting to portable USB DVD Drive, though showing in Boot menu?
I have an AMD Duron, BIOS version is 2001 (an old PC). I want to do a clean install of Win XP. When i connect the USB DVD drive, it detects in the Boot Menu-F8, but soon the message comes - Insert ...
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How long does a checkdisk take? [closed]
I have a Window XP PC that for some reason out the sudden when I go into windows it "freezes" I can see my desktop and all my folders and the cursor moves but can not open any folders or type ...
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How To change Grub Boot Setting
I got Fedora 18 and Windows 7 installed on the same machine, and I want to change Default boot time from 3sec to 7sec also and the default start-up systems windows 7.
I have used this commande :
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Computer takes several hours to start after pressing the power on button
For a while now my PC has been very slow to start up. I turn it off at night before going to sleep and when I try to turn it on in the morning it takes hours (roughly 2 to 4 hours). The computer does ...
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Don't start display manager when booting
I need to somehow boot from Grub w/o even starting or trying to start X and display manager. I tried
linux (hd1,msdos3)/boot/vmlinuz-*** root=/dev/sdb3 ro text
but this started kdm regardless. I ...
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion won't boot after installing Paragon HFS+ on Windows 8
I am running Windows 8 64Bit and Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
I installed Paragon HFS+ a few days ago, and now Mac OS won't boot. I get the gray screen with an apple logo and a progress bar along the ...
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Windows Sleep Mode - Hardware not booting up
I have a problem with my computers. It's mainly on my ASUS Eee PC Seashell 1215n Laptop, but other people I know have said that this happens to them too.
Sometimes when I wake up my laptop, it turns ...
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Did I kill windows boot manager? I can't boot after installing FreeBSD
I installed freebsd with dual-booting. I specified an empty partition for freebsd auto-configuring.
After it was installed, windows boot manager disappeared.
What's going on? Should I recover it, or ...
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Virtualbox needs ISO to boot VM post OS install
Fore some reason after i create new VM and install OS to it then it stops booting after the installation is completed. I have to re-mount the ISO i used for install to get the VM working normally. ...
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Boot to Live CD with VMWare
I have a CentOS6 virtual machine running on VMWare Workstation 7 and I need to boot to a LiveCD to increase my disk size. My problem is that I cant get the VM to boot to the ISO. It always boots to ...
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WinXP Raid 1 Failure Boot Issue
Here's my problem. I have a computer that was set up with RAID1, 2 HDDs and had a failure to one from some power surge issues.
If attempting to boot each drive on their own:
- The HDD in Port0 is bad ...
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Unable to view partitions in Windows Explorer
I used Partition Magic to partition my backup HDD so as to clone primary HDD. During the process, Partition Magic discovered some errors in some sectors of my primary HDD and asked to fix them. I ...
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Can't boot windows 8 install from usb, thinks it's a hard drive. Now stuck on win8 logo
I have a usb flash drive I used to install windows 8 on this laptop. Now I wanna try it on my pc. In boot order there is no clear USB, there were only 3 options (tried them all) Hard, CD, Removable. I ...
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Error loading operating system after installing a new hard drive
I just put a new hard drive in my laptop. I was installing Windows when the power went off, now it says Error loading operating system. What do I do now?
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Remove memtest from usb
A while ago I had some hardware issues with my desktop and used a USB stick to put a bootable memtest on it to do some diagnosis (at the time it was that one of the memory sticks was bad). Fast ...
