Questions tagged [boot]
The process and events beginning with power being supplied to the processor and ending with the operating system fully loaded and ready for use. Questions about specific parts of the boot process should be tagged with, e.g. [bios].
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Creating a multi-OS bootable media? [closed]
As someone with 7 computers in the house, sometimes I need to resort to using bootable media to resolve issues. The best bootable media is of course a USB drive. However, a 64GB drive is really an ...
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After Mainboard replacement on a dual-boot SSD setup, systemd-boot is not installed and UEFI doesn't recognize old Linux partition
I have a single SSD with Windows 11 and CachyOS (arch) installed on two partitions, divided like this:
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ThinkPad T460 with Virtualization not booting up
I recently installed Windows 11 on my T460. So far so good. However, I need Docker, and Docker for Desktop needs WSL2, and WSL2 needs Virtualization on. When I try to turn it on in the Bios, the ...
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Broken windows install after update resurrected old install on other drive
I've been trying to fix a windows computer after a windows update messed it up
Backstory:
Windows installed on SSD.
Old windows install still on hard drive.
Windows update around 12 December 2024.
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UEFI Rescue Media requires FAT and will not work with exFAT?
I am trying to create a WinPE rescue media in Macrium on a 1TB USB-3 Flash drive.
The goal is to restore an image from the same drive the system booted from, as doing this with the restore image on ...
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Bootable USB Flash Drive: Can I change it from FAT32 to NTFS?
I have a working USB-3 bootable flash drive. The utility that created it (Macrium disk imager) created it as FAT32 (I didn't check it before... it is a 1TB flash drive)
My problem is... obviously... I ...
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Windows 11 - Phase1_Initialization_Failed - 0xc0000001 (BSOD) [closed]
I got a new computer a month ago with a 500GB SSD. I upgraded the storage by adding a 2TB SSD and then cloned the 500GB SSD to it using DiskGenius. And continued to use the 2TB SSD as the main drive ...
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Invalid BOOT.INI file (Windows 7 and Windows XP install)
I tried installing Windows XP (on a Windows 7 machine because apparently this wasn't precise enough), but now the boot loader has been screwed over by that.
Invalid BOOT.INI file.
Booting from c:\...
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Why isn't mid-2011 iMac booting off a USB flash drive?
I have a mid-2011 iMac A1311 running 10.12 previously. When I boot it, I get the gray folder with flashing question mark icon.
I made a High Sierra bootable USB flash drive, but it won't boot off it, ...
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Main internal hard drive not recognized
I'm having a very frustrating problem with my main internal hard drive and I cannot boot my computer at all.
Context:
I wanted to use WSL2 in Windows 11 for working purpose so I installed it then ...
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Warning "load all system default settings? Current settings will be lost."
I am trying to enable another monitor for my computer. With it connected to my computer my computer won't start and opens to a start screen that gives me an option to change the startup procedure. In ...
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Why can't I recover Windows 7? [closed]
My computer configured to BIOS boot all installed operating systems. The hard drive is MBR partitioned.
I have Windows 7 and Linux Mint on a WD 500G hard drive. I want to remove Linux, so Windows can ...
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Why are modern Linux systems on SSDs unable to switch motherboards without corrupting the EFI partition?
Older systems on a SATADOM, you can switch them out of any motherboard and into any motherboard, and they will boot no matter what.
Try a WD Blue SSD with Debian bookworm installed, and every single ...
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Unable to update systemd-boot EFI variables from Windows
I'm trying to edit the value of the LoaderEntryDefault used by systemd-boot in order to change boot order from Windows, in a dual-boot setup.
However, when using the UEFI module from the Windows ...
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PC does not boot to BIOS at all after crash - CPU and DRAM QLED flash
I was booting into my Ubuntu partition today after using my Windows partition for about an hour or so. Suddenly my during PC froze and was stuck with no input accepted.
I could not open or use the ...
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Why is the UEFI BIOS screen black if Linux drive is plugged in?
TL;DR: since I have installed Linux alongside my Windows 11 on two different drives, accessing my BIOS/UEFI results in a blank black screen. Unplugging the drive containing Linux makes the UEFI ...
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How to fix bootloader using GRUB rescue after getting unknown file-system error?
I'm currently using an Oracle VirtualBox to run Ubuntu on my PC. Firstly I was trying to recover some files I mistakenly deleted in my terminal using exundelete tool. Did some research and part of the ...
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Is there any tool to edit/update EFI boot configuration from Windows 11?
Is it possible to edit EFI boot entries (namely the boot order) from within Windows?
From what I can gather, Windows 11 only provides those options on the recovery mode, which requires a restart; but ...
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Windows 11 stuck in light blue screen (not BSOD) boot loop
This has happened to me 3 times on 2 separate computers. Something happens (I don't know what yet) and Windows stops booting properly. It gets past the BIOS boot screen, the screen goes light blue (...
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How can I boot a cloned hard disk from another computer?
I cloned the whole hard disk on computer A to a hard disk on computer B and tried to boot from computer B but failed, probably because the hardware is very different. I can get to the trouble-shooting ...
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Having MBR and FileSystem issues when running “dist-update” from 22.10 to 24.04 Ubuntu server?
Since I've done the dist-update of one Ubuntu Server machine running LTS 22.10 I'm facing many FileSystem and Boot issues.
After the first update the filesystem was completely messed up and I needed ...
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How can I set up my bootloader to failover to other OSes if the prior option fails?
I'm facing an issue while setting up my system to boot multiple operating systems from a single SSD. I want to boot it from booting order if one fails then it should boot with second boot and that ...
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zero bytes free on windows-11 efi partition and grub2 cannot be repaired
Dell laptop Windows 11 on 256GB SSD, Linux Mint 22 on 2TB SSD. Dual boot using efi partition as first partition on Windows disk. Original configuration ended up too small (after a few years) and ...
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PC Hardware Issue - Cannot Narrow to Component
Build:
ASUS TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI,
7700X,
RTX-3070,
32GB Corsair DDR5-6000 (2x16GB),
Corsair RM850x,
Dual Boot Windows 11 & Mint 21.3
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Game (Grounded) closes by itself (frequent). ...
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Kingston SUV400S half dead after Orange Screen of Death
Some preface before getting into this mess.
2012-2015 Dell 7010 desktop with who knows what sort of cruel experiments performed on it by IT-students. Bought 2019 for cheap with mismatching ram sticks ...
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Can't boot from bootable USB when internal SSD connected
I'm trying to help a friend repair his computer that won't boot. There are 2 internal drives:
An internal SSD drive.
An internal hard drive.
The computer shows a splash screen with a spinning circle ...
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Is it possible to install newer kernels without knowing system password on Lubuntu if physical access is there?
I have installed Lubuntu with Home In a separate partition. The Home has a separate mount point and it was encrypted. It was all working. I need to provide the password for Home first then the system ...
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Does my new pc need to update bios or install windows [closed]
We resolved the issue :) thanks for the help
I’ve check the Gigabyte supported CPUs, and this CPU needs to run on UEFI firmware F1, we are on F3; I should update that and then install Windows correct?...
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Veracrypt boot lock bricked machine?
My veracrypt has a hard drive boot lock. Unfortunately I've lost the password.
I don't care about the data on the PC, I just want my computer back. Meaning I don't mind resetting it.
When I power the ...
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Why would a brief power-down NOT constitute a reboot?
Why would a brief power-down of a windows 11 pro server not constitute a re-boot?
After a recent re-boot I was investigating why a task scheduled against the trigger 'At system startup' hadn't run. ...
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How do I reinstall Windows' boot loader if I deleted the EFI partition?
I made a mistake and accidentally deleted my EFI partition for Windows when messing around on Linux. Because I did this BitLocker automatically locked. So grub doesn't recognize and won't boot windows....
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Clone of SSD does not boot on new PC
I have used the tool "Samsung Data Migration" (v.3.1) to clone my 500 GB Samsung SSD with one 199 GB Windows 10 partition (next to two ~550MB Partitions) to another similar Samsung SSD (...
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BIOS on MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus doesn't reboot on F10 (Save&Exit)
I updated BIOS to ver. 7C56v1F to add compatibility with Ryzen 7 5700x and everything is working fine, drivers and Windows is installed. Only one problem: when I enter to BIOS, then make any changes ...
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Installing ubuntu failed after selecting "try and install ubuntu"
I am trying to install ubuntu on my newly built PC but so far I always stuck at the booting phase.
here is what I have done
Install windows
free some space (500GiB) for ubuntu
download ubuntu desktop ...
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Why am I getting a purple boot menu with wrong resolution and half side black after Windows 11 24H2 update?
After installing the Windows 11 24H2 update my Windows boot menu turned purple / violet and the resolution seems wrong with the right side of the screen blank.
After running:
bcdboot c:\windows /v
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Cloned HDD won’t boot via SATA Connection [Lenovo Error 1962], will boot via USB Enclosure
I am replacing my current HDD (WD10EZEX 1TB HDD, henceforth “Old Drive”) with a new HDD (WD40EZAX 4TB HDD, henceforth "New Drive”). I used Casper 11 to clone Old Drive to New Drive. Windows 10. ...
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BitLocker asks for recovery key that I don't have - Can I work around that, maybe by restoring secureboot variables?
My wife has this Asus laptop. It's got some issues that may or may not be hardware (trackpad stops working, and for a while, going to UEFI would make it work again, but it's been a week or 2 that ...
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BSOD on connecting laptop to projector. PC won't boot now and no HDD/SDD shown in BIOS
Problem: So my Toshiba laptop ran into a BSOD (I didn't note the error msg) the moment I connected it to a working projector screen using an HDMI I think. I disconnected the projector but now on boot ...
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Why won't my ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PLUS boot with a FireWire PCIe card installed?
My PC has the ASUS TUF Gaming X570-PLUS motherboard (ACPI BIOS Revision 1404). Has functioned fine for the 2 years since built. I am going to be doing some transfer of legacy Mini DV tapes from a ...
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Installing Linux, which partition to keep incase returning to Windows?
I am installing Linux on my old PC. I want to wipe everything including all the data and the windows 10 OS, however I don't want to wipe the partition that has the files/data to reinstall windows 10 ...
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How can I boot from a full shutdown, without WoL, if the BIOS doesn't support it?
My daily-driver Windows PC has for years powered up automatically every morning, so that it's completely ready to go with all my apps launched by the time I walk into my home office. To do this ...
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How to UEFI boot Debian after transferring the contents of a smaller drive from a BIOS booting computer to the drive in the UEFI only computer?
I have Debian 12 installed to BIOS boot on SATA drive. The MBR type partitioning was determined by the defaults set in the Debian installer. I copied the exact contents of this drive to new larger ...
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How to get rid of multiple "Windows Boot Managers"?
Before, Windows was present on my drive, before I accidentally deleted it.
Now, I did reinstall Windows, however, there were two boot options.
Even when deleting the improper option from my BIOS, it ...
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Windows 8.1 dell Inspiron bios not loading and no access to any os
I have an older Dell Inspiron windows 8.1 laptop that I do not mind taking apart, but after starting the laptop up I attempted to boot in the F12 boot options. The computer will display that the BIOS ...
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Repair Grub/UEFI boot settings with a root filesystem on a logical volume
So I recently set up a new virtual private server to host a couple of things using YunoHost. It runs Debian 12. During inital setup, I declared both the main drive and a second drive (Local Block ...
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GPU doesn't load if my monitor is turned off and pc is turned on by WOL
So i'm bit with a little problem:
PC for AI server, sometimes i need to turn on the pc by wol and the monitor is turned off. The pc turns on fine and the OS loads but after some hours, when i need to ...
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Error after extending UEFI partition
I attempted to increase the UEFI partition size from 100 MB to 1 GB. To do this, I created a new partition (P4) with the desired size and copied the files from the original 100 MB partition to it. I ...
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PC crash on booting ubuntu-installer from USB
I am struggeling with a PC I got from my workplace.
The components are old (around 2009/2010):
Motherboard: Gigabyte P55A UE4(rev 2.0) up-to-date with F15
CPU:
Intel i7 875k (x64)
GPU: EVGA 01G-P3-...
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Steps needed to move a drive with Debian 12 from BIOS booting computer to a UEFI only booting Computer
I have Debian 12 installed to BIOS boot on SATA drive. The MBR type partitioning was determined by the defaults set in the Debian installer. I wish to move this SATA drive to a different computer ...
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Win10 does not boot in any mode after hardware upgrade
Historic system state:
Once there was an HDD with Win7, which had created a 100Mb hidden system partition at the beginning of the disk. After PC upgrade the new Win10 was installed on a new SSD drive, ...
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