Questions tagged [bootloader]
A bootloader is a program that loads and launches a program or an operating system from boot.
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Can't use boot-repair tool to repair the bootloader of my ubuntu
I followed the tutorials on internet, which told me if I can't boot my ubuntu appropriately(coz I changed my motherboard, the boot-loader has been overwritten), I need to use a bootable usb and use ...
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Add Linux EFI (like grub) as Windows boot entry
I primarily use Windows for everything, but for coding I want to use a dual booted Linux OS. If I keep using grub as the default bootloader, then the startup time for Windows is drastically affected. ...
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GRUB2 how to shutdown computer if disk not found with search command
I'm using the GRUB2 to load Windows To Go with following grub.cfg menu entry:
menuentry "MS Windows" --class cl-windows --id id-windows {
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root XXXX-...
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How to remove GRUB and restore the Windows Bootloader?
I am on a Windows 10 / Ubuntu 20.04 dual boot machine. Recently, Windows has not been able to install updates (after rebooting, it says couldn't complete updates, reverting changes). Now I want to ...
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Windows 10 C: drive not listed as system drive
When I installed windows when upgrading my PC, I had the old windows SSD plugged in, which blue screens on boot due to mismatched motherboard files as far as i can tell. I then installed Windows to my ...
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How do I validate a boot partition in Linux?
I have a Linux machine with two SSD drives as its main drive. While installing Ubuntu 20 or CentOS 8, I partitioned the drives each with a 2g boot partition and the rest as a root partition, then used ...
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How to choose target disk for boot-loader during Windows 10/11 installation?
I had a Windows 10 and I decided to try Windows 11. My motherboard works in UEFI mode.
I had 2 physical disks on my PC:
disk 1: here is my current Windows 10 installed
disk 2: a disk with an ...
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How to make boot menu always appear without pressing F11
How do I make boot menu appear without pressing f11 every time? I switch between operating systems like few times a day, which makes it annoying having to press it all the time. I have a MSI ...
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Where to mount efi partition?
I have an existing efi partition used for a windows installation.
I want to install grub to it, for dual boot.
The tutorials say to mount this efi-partition (in my case /dev/sdb1) to /mnt/boot.
Now my ...
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How can I find the bootloader IP address of a router?
I'm trying to flash a router I have access to with OpenWrt, the router is not flashing with the OpenWrt bin file through it's webui.
So I have to flash it with the TFTP method, for this I have to ...
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Trouble with USB drive and GRUB loader with ParrotOS
I have an older MacbookPro i believe an 08 model. I have installed ParrotOS Security on metal. I have now wanted to swap back to Kali but when I put the USB in it to install Kali, the grub bootloader ...
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How to remove Windows 10 dual bootloader but still be able to use the other non-default windows?
I have two windows 10s currently installed on my PC. Whenever my PC boots up, it shows that dual bootloader showing the two windows I installed. But I mainly boot into Windows(1, previously installed ...
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Loading Windows OS using Mainline U-Boot bootloader
How could I load Windows OS with a bootloader that is Mainline U-Boot?
Is this possible? Do we have any documentation that will guide us on this approach?
Thank you.
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Linux as bootloader
I'm up to something special. I want to seperate my single Windows 10 installation in multiple operating systems, each one with a single purpose. That's because my Windows 10 is full with games, ...
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How to disable the splash screen on single monitor,
my stack is: raspberrypi, uboot, buildroot and weston. I have two display devices connected to the board. First is the touchscreen for the user interface(HDMI-A-1), second is for the projector (HDMI-A-...
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How do I debug a boot failure after transferring a physical machine to a virtual disk? INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x0000007B)
I have tried numerous fixes for a Windows 10 blue screen with error code INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x0000007B) after transferring a physical machine to a virtual disk using Disk2vhd. I am basically ...
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Installing Linux on HP T620 Thin Client
I got hold of some HP T620 Thin Clients and I planned to install something like Ubuntu, raspbian or Lubuntu on it, as this seems to work according to some forums.
The client has 8 GB RAM, 16GB M.2 SSD....
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How can I repair my Windows 10 on a full-disk-encryption setup with VeraCrypt?
A recent optional Windows 10 update (2021-08 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 21H1 for x64-based systems (KB5005101)) destroyed my Windows installation on my fully encrypted disk (VeraCrypt).
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Cloning a linux installation to multiboot with the original
I installed arch linux on an empty drive partitioned as gpt on an UEFI board.
My plan is to have three copies of this insatllation for the reasons that i'll furtherr detail.
the partition table ...
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Firmware update: Shim does not seem to start fwupdx64.efi with Secure Boot enabled
I tried to do a firmware update on a ThinkPad L14 using fwupdmgr on Fedora 34. Everything seemed fine until the program told me to reboot, which I did, but Fedora was booted instead of the firmware ...
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If I use Windows bootloader (by easybcd) instead of grub in dual boot, will it be enough just to delete linux partition for completely removing linux?
I am using dual booting of Windows 10 and Kali linux. I have GRUB to switch between them. I know that only formating the Linux partition isn't enough to remove it. I need to remove GRUB too by using ...
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How can i make windows 10 boot loader load first then bitlocker
I create Windows 10 dual boot installation
windows 10 (1) [ ENCRYPTED ] || windows 10 (2)
I encrypted my C: Drive on my windows 10 (1) installation and when I restart my machine bitlocker want's me ...
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I deleted Windows' system boot partition using GParted
I have 2 drives. When I was switching from a HDD drive to an SSD drive a "boot menu" with 2 Windows systems (and one of them not working) popped up while booting Windows.
Today I wanted to ...
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linux 2 grub bootloader installed -
i have both OS installed, Ubuntu 20.04 and the newest Kali version (wanted to try it out - now its just taking space ... lol) However, i have two grub bootloaders on my harddrive. Everything works ...
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Can't perform a Factory reset or reboot my Alienware R3 15" (Windows 10)
I have an Alienware R3 15" that I tried to factory reset directly without a USB-windows-image (at first), here are the steps that I followed :
I had an Ubuntu partition (on dual boot) on this pc ...
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U-Boot only boots on some SD Cards
I'm encountering an issue where the RK3399 custom board I'm using won't boot (using U-Boot) from certain SD Cards. I'm currently working with two 16GB cards, a Gigastone one which functions and a ...
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Switch existing windows install in multiboot environment to independent?
I have two physical drives. The new drive I installed another copy of windows on but the old drive contains the bootloader. If I disconnect the old drive how can I make the new drive boot ...
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Does every storage device have MBR?
I have learnt that the BIOS collects the most diverse hardware data and create a complete list of all of the device’s available drives immediately after being powered on.
When this process is complete,...
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Will a Windows 10 installation on a seperate drive cause it to overwrite GRUB?
I have an Ubuntu system (UEFI) and I want to run a Win 10 installation on a separate disk. My goal is to switch between operating systems by changing the boot order of disks from BIOS.
However, I'm ...
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removing and reinstalling windows 10 along side linux
I have installed Arch Linux on nvme0n1p5 and windows 10 is on nvme0n1p4. Also as far as I remember I installed the grub bootloader on nvme0n1p2 i.e. boot/efi along with windows boot
Now I want do a ...
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Fedora 34 can't install the boot loader configuration
The Error is:
"The following error occurred while installing the boot loader. The system will not be bootable."
I have a problem installing Fedora 34, every time it tries to install the ...
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Extra entry in Grub menu
My Toshiba laptop came with Windows 7 pre-installed. I installed Xubuntu on dual-boot (BIOS not UEFI). When Windows 10 came out, I upgraded to it, but now Grub shows two entries for Windows (besides ...
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How to burn a boot loader onto a USB drive (boot-loader as a .bin)
I have created a very small boot loader in assembly and am wanting to test it on my physical hardware and so I am using a USB drive to do this. I have converted the assembly to machine code and to a ....
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"linux" grub loader can't detect android
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I had installed Android(Bliss OS) in New Volume(D). When I successfully installed it, I noticed that it was asking me to use or reboot. I was using few moment. When I reboot after using ...
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Can I use Grub as my boot manager on a HDD drive installing Kali? When I put in the USB(live) or not it says I have no boot manager [closed]
I have two hard drives. One is an SSD with windows. The other I am trying to put Kali on. I figured the easy way was just to take out the SSD with windows temporarily. Now when I try to run my install ...
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How more secure is using Shim/PreLoader than having Secure Boot disabled?
I have my doubts on how secure is using Shim/PreLoader to allow booting Linux with Secure Boot enabled.
My doubt comes from the fact that it seems to me Shim's MokManager and PreLoader's HashTool can ...
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Replacement of SSD on a Macbook Pro 2015 13inch and install macOS and windows
Last week, I as faced with abusive trackers on my windows installation on a MacBook Pro 13inch 2015 and had to format the SSD to clean all the mess and garbage! To add to the challenge I had forgotten ...
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Fixing bootloader from windows 10 installation on another drive?
I used to have a dual boot linux mint / windows 10 setup on my PC, but I recently deleted the entire linux partition, and with it grub. I've tried using the built in windows boot repair from a flash ...
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Grub2/Debian10 change root partition on boot
I have a headless NAS system that ran out of disk space on it's system partition. It's running Debian 10, usually managed via OpenMediaVault 5 with a grub2 bootloader on an EFI system. Apart from the ...
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Bootable partition is not shown in the boot picker or the BIOS
So i couldn’t find my USB drive anywhere, and i thought i’d install Linux from my internal hard drive. Created a new partition, formatted as FAT32, and dd-ed the image onto it.
I rebooted, and the ...
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Windows stuck in "Preparing Automatic Repair" after an unplanned power-down while disabling WSL
I'm running Windows 10, updated to it's latest version as of writing this on an Acer Predator Helios 300.
Boot times for the laptop have been getting longer, and the system has been slower and laggy ...
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Could not set BootOrder: No space left on device
When I boot my HP computer, these messages appear:
System BootOrder not found.
Initializing defaults …
Could not create variable: … Out of resources
After 2 failed attempts (Out of resources), Grub ...
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In a dual OS PC, How to make the second OS invisible when running the boot loader and how to restore it when needed
In my pc, there are two operating systems in two partitions. Thus, the boot loader shows all of them when starting the PC. I want to make the boot loader run one OS in order to hide the existence of ...
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How to boot back into Linux after Windows 10 install
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On this computer I had Windows 7 installed. I accidentally broke it, so I installed Linux Mint (since Linux is free and I didn't want to pay for Windows). Recently I was able to install ...
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Fix windows 10 drive
Basically I have an image of my windows 10 installations c drive, plus images of all the other microsoft restricted partitions etc, I would like to know where to put them on a fresh disk to get it to ...
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Having installed Win&Ubuntu dualboot, can't boot Ubuntu
I've installed Win10 first
Ubuntu linux was second installed
Now, I can only boot into Windows, Ubuntu, despite it's there installed, I can not boot.
I have very old pc with primitive bios. Only thing ...
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Computer doesn't turn on, but power LEDs and fan do
I have an Ideapad 330s with Windows/Arch dual boot. I booted Arch today and my touchpad wasn't working (it does that sometimes) so I rebooted.
However after the screen went off, the power LED stayed ...
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Black screen instead of "Choose an operating system menu", then normal boot (probably after the 30 seconds)
I had Windows 10 installed on one partition, and then installed Windows 10 on another partition. The first time I restarted the laptop after the installation finished, I got the "Choose an ...
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repair windows boot loader after cloning to SSD
I bought my PC with Windows 10 on it, later installing Ubuntu for dual-booting. Recently, I wanted to replace the HDD inside with an SSD of the same size, so I copied all the partitions to the SSD (...
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Change name of "ubuntu" boot entry
I have a multi-boot system with Windows 10 on my main drive and Linux Mint 20 and Ubuntu 20.04 on an external drive. Both Ubuntu and Linux Mint use the same bootloader, which is stored on the ESP on ...
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