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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Dell keeps booting to old SSD
My Dell G5 5590 has a 250GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. I bought a Samsung Evo 870 1TB SSD, and used Samsung's Data Migration tool to clone from the 250GB to the Evo.
Then, I opened the laptop and installed ...
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Copying one partition at a time doesn’t result in a bootable drive. Why? How to fix?
Instead of using clone software, I wanted to copy, one at a time, each partition on my C: boot drive to a larger drive. I did this with no errors (used mini wizard to copy one at a time)
I thought it ...
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Syslinux on USB: booting on one machine, "no default or ui" on another. What's going on?
I have Ubuntu installed on a 2 GB USB drive with Syslinux to boot it.
It works perfectly on an old WinXP-era Samsung laptop. It takes time, but it boots, shows a Syslinux menu, runs a kernel, and ...
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PC keeps rebooting before displaying the login screen and then works fine
It is a homemade PC that is already a few years old (without problems).
These are the parts used:
Mainboard: ASRock B450 Steel Legend
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO
Power: ...
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Unable to boot into Linux Mint 21.2 installation media, black screen and nothing happens
My sister just built a computer with an Intel Processor i5-11400 and Intel UHD 730 graphics.
She only managed to install the latest Linux Mint 21.2 through compatibility mode because when she went ...
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Scary error while booting the PC from USB
I created a flash drive with pop OS! on it. I performed every step to boot from USB. At a point a try or install pop OS! Appeared on screen with timer showing seconds left to boot. But this message ...
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Order of device initialization at Linux boot
I'm working on embedded system with screen connected over HDMI, but screen initialization takes longer than is comfortable for user. When I have ploted boot sequence by systemd-analyze tool, I have ...
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Windows fails to boot every even time
On one of my computers Windows 10 x64 with recent updates installed shows the following behaviour.
On boot it says about start up problems and brings me to the repair screen on the blue background.
I ...
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Accidentally ran `mkfs.ext4` on my `/boot` partition (fedora 36)
I pulled a total amateur-hour move and ran mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2 on accident the other day while trying to troubleshoot a hosed retropi sdcard. /dev/nvme0n1p2 was my /boot partition on my work ...
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How do I fix my grub issue?
A while ago I installed android shell alongside windows 10, but when I didn't need it anymore and tried uninstalling it, but I
didn't uninstall it correctly, and I left a broken grub behind and gave ...
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black screen after power on & auto power on after force shutdown
After pressing the power button of the laptop, most of the hardware is completely unresponsive.
The fan works for a few seconds and stops. It works for a short time before stops again periodically ...
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Old PCs won't go show video or bios
I have two old PCs with me, they both have the same issue, not showing bios or booting into OS. They both been in storage for almost a decade now.
One PC only has the Power Supply, RAM, CPU and some ...
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Computer only boots if a monitor is plugged in
I'd like to setup a headless system, but it only seems to boot if a monitor is plugged in.
The motherboard is an Asus ROG Maximus Ranger VII, the CPU an Intel i7 4790K and it's running VoidLinux.
With ...
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Unable to boot after repeated BSOD
My computer will not boot into anything, other than Win10 safe mode on its boot drive. I cannot perform a clean install as every attempt to boot into a install USB causes a BSOD.
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BSOD ntoskrnl.exe MSI Creator 17 B11UH-405BE i9-11900H running Windows 11
My MSI Creator 17 B11UH-405BE i9-11900H running Windows 11 was in screen saver and when I wanted to work again a BSOD appeared. After restarting, I wanted to view the source of the BSOD. It turned out ...
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HP ProLiant Gen8 won't boot from USB
I have a HP Proliant Gen8 server which boots to Windows 10 automatically and works but I now want it to boot from USB as I'm trying to build a Plex server on it. However it refuses to boot from the ...
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any way to see boot menu with a cracked screen?
I have an old laptop with a cracked screen, as in, nothing shows.
I can still use it just fine if i connect an external monitor via hdmi.
I wanted to install linux on it, but to my disappointment, i ...
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I was in an infinite boot loop, so I reset and did a fresh install and I’m still stuck
Ever since I upgraded to windows 11 from 10 I noticed massive issues. Crashes, slower speeds everything. Eventually this morning it crashed and froze so I held the power button down to turn the ...
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SSD appears in UEFI BIOS but won't boot
I have a PC with an Asus ROG Strix B350-F Gaming Motherboard with a Ryzen 5 2600 processor.
I have a 1TB Samsung NvME SSD on this PC (where Windows 10 is installed) along with a 250GB SATA SSD for ...
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Dell BIOS, different boot entry after Auto-On-Time event
I want to make use of the Auto-On-Time feature in my Dell Latitude E7250. This feature sets the time of day when the system will turn on automatically. Is it possible to mod the BIOS to allow it to ...
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0190 critical low battery error only on boot lenovo x 1 carbon gen 7
I replaced my x1 carbon battery with a new one. The battery itself seems to be okay. However, it isn't a Lenovo original (I can't find any). On boot, if I don't have a charging cable plugged in, it ...
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I have a MacBook Pro 2016 just updated to Sonoma then it went into Bootkicker.efi Openshell.efi Reset NVRAM I’ve tried everything nothing has worked
My MacBook Pro has the update Sonoma before the update there were absolutely no problems.
But since the update I can’t get it to boot in recovery mode it keeps going to BootKicker.efi.
Then when I do ...
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How is the grub boot menu presented if the gpt looks for efi system partition
I noticed that all grub resouces (fonts,images etc.) are located in /boot/grub, which usually exists in Linux filesystem partition. Of course there is another partition, which is mounted on /boot/efi. ...
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Is adding a macOS partition while having Ubuntu installed possible?
I want to add another partition to my Late 2014 Mac Mini that has Ubuntu 22.04 installed. However, there seems to be one partition that I cannot move called disk0s2.
This contains 251GB of the ...
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EFI/Bios/Grub: Notebook Doesn‘t boot neither HDD nor Fedora install media
I had a parallel installation of W10 and Fedora Linux. Was fine although prompting error of unknown TPM error the last time but the Notebook booted.
Then I Installed Fedora 39 immutable Onyx. Deleted ...
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Windows won't boot after power cut. Windows installation USB won't boot either
A few months ago, a very brief power outage occurred while I was using Windows 10. It lasted less than a second and when I turned my computer on again, it booted into Ubuntu, which was installed on an ...
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How to get into UEFI BIOS if flash screen does no longer show & default keypress no longer works?
To prepare a PC for an upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11 and making triple-booting into Linux and Haiku easier, I switched the partitioning scheme of the boot drive from MBR to GPT.
This worked fine.
Then ...
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How do I clone a disk drive with bad sectors?
Current old failing disk: micron c400 512gb 2.5" SATA III
Main and only boot device on Dell XPS L521X 15" running Windows 10 Pro. BSODs and boot failures every few weeks due to bad sectors.
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Windows Requires Last User to Unlock on Startup
In an conspicuous failure of design or the any-idiot test, a multiuser Windows 10 machine not a member of a domain requires the last user to unlock the machine on startup, forbidding other users from ...
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Trouble booting in any OS / USB disk
Recently, I have installed Linux MINT into a separate partition next to Windows. But then I realized that I installed the wrong version, so I deleted the partition MINT was installed on.
Ever since, ...
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How to reset, from another Windows, the Safe/Diagnostic boot parameter set in MSCONFIG?
My Win11 has worked perfectly.
I only wanted to see if an issue I had with another program might be due to installed programs.
The problem is that now, Win11 logon after boot, can't turn on the camera ...
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Can you boot ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer/3.1 headless?
I have two of these computers both with ASRock Fatal1ty X99M Killer/3.1 motherboards. As their gaming days are behind them, I want to use them in a headless fashion given the 12 core Xeon processors.
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How do you reset a Linux host to its first-boot state?
We are building a generic deployment image and I want to clean/delete all the host-specific details. (This a RHEL8/Oracle 8/Alma 8 system.)
This is what I have so far:
# rm -rf /etc/.etckeeper/* # if ...
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Can't install windows 10 - "Couldn't find info for boot disk [1]"
Sorry for posting the logs as a photo, I couldn't copy it from the PC. I used to have Ubuntu Server installed on that computer and I decided erase everything and install win 10. In the window where I ...
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How to encrypt with LUKS a live Ubuntu usb stick that has been customized with Cubic?
I'm using Cubic (https://github.com/PJ-Singh-001/Cubic) to create a custom Ubuntu. So far so good, everything is going smoothly.
However, I would like to encrypt the USB stick that contains my custom ...
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Windows 11 error 0xc0000221
so i just built my first pc, When using 2 ram sticks (gskill trident z5 6000mhz ddr5) on my mobo (Asrock b650 pro rs) i’m getting this windows error Oxc0000221 .. i took out one stick of ram , mobo ...
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Preserve OPNsense logs after a reboot
OPNsense just got stuck (or maybe DOSed, but I can’t tell because of missing logs), and I had to reboot from the serial console to restore functionality quickly.
After the system came back up trouble-...
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Why is a bootable USB not detected during boot? (Installed: Parrot OS, USB: Ultramarine Linux)
I created a bootable USB using rufus4.3 (build 2090) for Ultramarine Linux 38.
It is not being detected during startup, and I directly see the grub menu for the installed OS (Parrot 5.3).
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Cleared CMOS and now Windows won't load
I just built a new PC with the following parts.
Intel Core i9-13900KF
MSI Gaming Radeon RX 6800
ASUS ROG Strix B760-F
G.SKILL Trident Z5 DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB)
SAMSUNG 870 QVO SATA III SSD 8TB
When ...
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please insert a disk into usb drive after rufus [duplicate]
I used rufus to install windows on a fresh pc and after the install was finished I booted into windows, removed the usb drive. When I restarted and plugged the usb in it can't detect any media on it ...
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NVMe SSD is visible on Device Manager but not visible in Disk Management
I was using my windows pc all and well but suddenly windows stopped working. I have a usb bootable Ubuntu and with this I wanted to extract my files before formatting the SSD completely but for some ...
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Booting Batocera .img Using Grub
Objective : Run Batorcera from an .img created with dd from a working install on a USB. btc.img is a stored file on my computer and I would like to start up the OS using Grub.
I have tried these two ...
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Not being able to dualboot Windows 11/Linux
I come with the question about dual booting Windows 11 on 1st SSD and Ubuntu on 2nd SSD.
After different tries with different scenarios, I'm still not abel to run installation of Linux on second drive....
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No bootable device on acer aspire 3
My Acer aspire 3 laptop says no bootable device I've tried watching videos on YouTube to help solve this problem but I get stuck when I'm on boot tab on my screen it doesn't show boot mode it only ...
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How to wipe HDD with windows install
I have a two drive system, one HDD, one SSD. The HDD has windows installed, as well as the SSD. My goal is to run Windows from the SSD, and use the HDD as storage.
With both drives attached (SATA), I ...
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Windows 11 does "system reset" when trying to boot from external USB
I have a HP Windows 11 laptop. I made a live fully installed USB with Ubuntu on it. The USB is tested on Linux machines and it boots nicely, no problems.
On the Windows 11 device (with HP Wolf ...
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Windows doesn't boot after installing ubuntu
I'm new to Linux and had recently installed Ubuntu alongside Windows on my computer. Initially, it worked fine and after some time, I reinstalled Ubuntu using an external drive. After the ...
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Removing Standalone Windows UEFI Boot Entry
In short, Windows creates its own boot entry in UEFI. In my case this is not good because I wanted to have a single entry that takes me directly to my GRUB (where I can also start Windows) and I ...
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Why is my external hard drive so slow to boot xubuntu?
I've got a external hard drive, partitioned, with an NTFS and a Fat32 partition. I've got random stuff on the NTFS and i'm trying to install Xubuntu onto the Fat32 partition.
I've created a Xubuntu ...
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When can/should a Windows service Start type be "Boot" or "System" instead of "Automatic"?
While running the Services.msc GUI offers the ability to manually set a Windows service start type to Automatic, Automatic (Delayed start), Manual, or Disabled, the configuration of services is stored ...
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