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A bootloader is a program that loads and launches a program or an operating system from boot.

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Can I change the icon of a Windows Boot Entry?

Is ist possible to change the icon for the ArchLinux entry shown below for Windows 10 (e.g. to the ArchLinux logo instead of the cmd-ish icon), using BCDEdit or some other tool?
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Triple booting on a Mac Book [almost there]; boot loader issues

Here is my current GPT/MBR partition table: Current GPT partition table: # Start LBA End LBA Type 1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT) 2 409640 663646255 Mac OS X ...
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Microsoft Aniversary update broke my refind bootloader

I had Windows 10 and Linux installed together. I used UEFI. My setup have been complicated. First I installed Windows, disabled Fast Boot, then installed Manjaro with Grub, but I prefer rEFInd, so I ...
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Can't boot Windows: "Missing Operating System" - EFI Boot

Edit: As I've not received a single answer in 4 days I will now reset my system. You can still answer though, maybe you can help somebody else :) I'm about 6 hours in and don't know where to go from ...
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Windows 10 Update to 2004 failure - Error: 0x80004005 - 0x60016

I've been trying for the last week or so to get Windows 10 to update to 2004. I've tried all of the common solutions (sfc /scannow, DISM restore, media creation tool etc). After looking at the log ...
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Fastboot Stuck, but Device Detected

I am on Manjaro Linux, running adb/fastboot version 29.0.2-ArchLinux. I read others, but their problem is device not being detected and no permission (which is not happening to me). fastboot ...
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How do I change UEFI boot order when the BIOS (the firmware) does not have that option?

I want to change the boot order to default to rEFInd but the system always boots to Windows 10 and I have to use F10 method to boot into Linux via grub and rEFInd. I want to boot into rEFInd by ...
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Booting Windows from Stick

I installed Windows on my 3 TiB hard disk with an old motherboard where no UEFI is possible. Since i wanted to install to two other Linux OS's i changed the msdos partition table to gpt via gdisk ...
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Getting to the GRUB menu using IPMI on a supermicro server

I have supermicro server running Grub 2.02 BETA 2. I kind of inherited this box, so I am kind approaching things gingerly. The box supports ONIE and I want to install a new image, but the first ...
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Triple boot 3 OS's on 3 separate SSD's

I am attempting to set up a system with 3 separate OS's (Windows 7, 8.1, and 10 TP) all on three separate SSD's. I can currently boot into each one if I use a boot override via the UEFI BIOS on my ...
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How to manually boot with grub or: how to boot a 32bit Linux OS on a 32bit only UEFI firmware computer?

I want to install a 32bit Linux (e.g. Ubuntu) on my Intel Atom Bay Trail tablet, but I fail to get it to boot. The device's firmware only supports 32bit bootloaders. There are guides that somewhat ...
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Recover truecrypt partition without MBR + recovery disk?

I destroyed my mbr and have no truecrypt rescue disk. However, I do know my password and my encryption setup (e.g. hashing functions and ciphers used). This happened after an upgrade to version 7.0a ...
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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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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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Why do Linux distros use both the grub and syslinux bootloaders?

Whenever I open a Linux distro iso file there is always a grub and an isolinux bootloader, I realized they use isolinux to boot the installation. Can't we use grub for that? is isolinux faster and ...
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How to choose from available iso files on boot?

What I want to achieve is I want to be able to choose (either by available iso files or menu entries, which you need to enter yourself, doesn't really matter) the iso file (image of an actual ...
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Veracrypt loads Grub bootloader instead of booting Windows after decryption

tl;dr: When I enter the password for my encrypted Windows partition, the Grub bootloader on another partition is loaded instead of booting Windows. What is responsible for what is done after Veracrypt ...
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MAC OS Mounting and booting from Ramdisk when starting up

Is it possible to do the following automatic actions each time OSX starting up? Press Power Button Boot Mac Create Ramdisk Load OSX to Ramdisk Boot from Ramdisk Then I should be able to use ...
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rEFInd's EFI file removed but computer still boots on

I'm on multiboot (Ubuntu/LUKS, Win7/VeraCrypt, Win7 unencrypted) and I installed rEFind to tinker few boot things I slightly broke. I nearly made my stuff and now I want to remove it (or at least make ...
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Multiboot USB with UEFI/BIOS support for Windows, Ubuntu and MacOS

I'd like to do the following, on a single USB stick: Have installations for Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and MacOS Be able to install Windows and Linux in both BIOS and UEFI modes (BIOS in case the system ...
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How to remove this extra piece of boot devices?

Today when trying to install Linux beside my Windows, I found these two extra boot devices: I suspected, and entered the UEFI, where I found this: Then I remembered, once upon a time I had Ubuntu ...
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Creating custom native arch linux netbook from android tablet?

A while ago I have decided to make a netbook out of an android tablet I had lying around, by 3D printing a case for it and using an 87 key mechanical keyboard as the embedded keyboard. I mainly plan ...
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Bootloader missing in new Windows 8.1 installation

I installed a new SSD in my laptop and installed Windows 8.1 on it. I did not remove my existing HDD that also has Windows 8.1 on it. I set the new drive to boot first in BIOS boot priority. However, ...
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Can I recover my HDD data after clean installing Win 7 on SSD, after the installation created System Reserved Partition in the HDD instead of the SSD?

I can't find the solution by searching the forums because I lack too much knowledge about partition tables functioning. I've found this quite similar situation Recover or recreate partition after &...
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Dell E6410 UEFI

I'm having problems with my laptop using UEFI. What happens is, I can boot a UEFI operating system only if I go into boot options and manually select it. It will not automatically boot into any UEFI ...
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Windows 8.1 EFI Graphical Bootloader: Change OS Thumbnails

I've just used EasyBCD to tweak my Windows 8.1 EFI graphical bootloader, adding entries for Windows XP and Ubuntu. Both of them have a boring thumbnail of a window, while Windows 8 has a thumbnail of ...
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Error 0xc000007b when trying to start \EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi (Ubuntu) through Windows 8.1 Bootmanager on an UEFI System

Error 0xc000007b when trying to start \EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi (Ubuntu) through Windows 8.1 Bootmanager on an UEFI System EFI Entries During Ubuntu Setup, Ubuntu automatically created an EFI start ...
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No EFI boot possible with Clover EFI

So I have this Vaio Duo 11 sitting next to me, and it works very nice. But to have some sort of bootloader which also is compatible with Hackintosh, I wanted to install Clover. I used my MacBook Air ...
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Linux bootloader on USB-stick, load different kernel depending on hardware

I'm experimenting with a setup where I keep my kernel and initrd on a USB stick, and thus I can keep everything on the actual computers fully encrypted. Nothing is stored in clear text, and nothing ...
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Clone Hard Disk except got One Partition

I would like to replace a hard disk in my desktop with a smaller SSD. This hard disk has the following partition setup: Linux ext4 partition (and related swap partitions) Windows 7 NTFS partition ...
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Custom MS-DOS / FreeDOS

Goal : Build a custom DOS to boot into. To automate tasks like formating a drive, or doing recovery. I've been using Grub4DOS to boot into these images. So far I've looking into taking a windows ...
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Windows 7 Boot Loader does not show

I've recently installed a 32bit Windows7 in my computer. My old OS is Windows XP, and now I want to have the option to choose what OS I want to load, I've used the easyBCD to create the boot loader. ...
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grub refuses to install to raid array

I have a software raid 0 setup with dual booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. The GRUB bootloader that is already on the hard drive seems to work fine. However, since the latest package update for grub,...
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Use GRUB/GRUB2 to PXE boot OS image

Here is the situation I am in: I currently have a Windows drive that boots XP. The BIOS does not support PXE booting so this is out of the question. Therefore, I was thinking I could install a ...
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GRUB will not work

I am having trouble with my hard disk. Previously, I had a working Linux Mint Debian Edition partition and a Windows XP partition, all working and bootable through GRUB. However, I decided to replace ...
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unetbootin (syslinux?) -- adding memtest86 to my bootable USB drive

The only way I have been able to reliably load a windows install disc onto USB is using Unetbootin and a FAT32 formatted drive. I do this because it is significantly faster to install windows this way ...
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Bootloader on USB flash drive, data on USB HDD

It might sound absurd, but I'd like to configure a bootloader on a USB flash drive to load from a removable HDD. The reason why is that the data fits on the HDD (where it has its own partition) but it ...
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Add Windows Vista to the grub menu

I had Windows Vista installed on my computer and created a partition to install Fedora 15. I chose the option to install fedora on any free space, so it should have installed on the empty partition. ...
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Problems with Grub 2 booting priority

Right now I have this setup: /dev/sda1 is NTFS where I store my cross-platform accessible pictures/videos/etc. /dev/sda2 is my Windows 7 boot partition /dev/sdb1 is ext4 partition with Ubuntu 11.04 ...
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Mistakenly edited something while booting Windows. Now it doesn't boot

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10.. I had just finished a session on Win7 which was extremely slow, and I decided to restart in safe mode to uninstall some ...
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Suggestion for boot manager in external hard disk

I just bought an 1TB External Hard drive with eSATA, USB, FW400/800 (LaCie if you are interested). I already put the windows 7 installation in a FAT32 active partition so i can plug the HDD via USB, ...
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How to use windows bootloader to dual boot windows and ubuntu on uefi?

What I exactly tried is... Installed windows 10 with uefi. Installed Ubuntu 17.04 with uefi on the 20GB drive. The ubuntu bootloader is installed on the efi system partition created while installing ...
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Is possible update ventoy through Linux when it was installed from the beginning through Windows 10?

To load an .iso image through the boot process through a pendrive (or usb flash drive) is very useful Ventoy I want to know if is possible, and mostly safe, accomplish the following scenario Is ...
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How to remove Ubuntu entry from EFI and/or reinstall OpenBSD boot loader?

I have a ThinkPad E15 gen 2 AMD laptop. It has the stock Toshiba NVMe SSD and an Intel Optane NVMe SSD. NVMe0 is a spare drive and NVMe1 is the OpenBSD drive. I had to do something with a disk ...
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No operating system found specifically on reboot

I've got a HP elitebook 8460p with linux installed on it. When I choose to reboot the system, at the time it starts it throws the 'no OS found' error. However if I shut it down and start it manually ...
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Cannot fix Windows 10 boot record

BACKGROUND I had an ASRock server motherboard with Windows 10 installed on an NVME disk. The motherboard failed (i.e. will not power up). I replaced the MB with a SuperMicro X10Dai MB. I attached the ...
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How to remove GRUB (and Linux) and restore Microsoft boot manager?

I have an old laptop with Windows 10 on it (it was 8 originally), and it has been through a lot with me. I want to take it through some more, and perhaps give it to a colleague of mine. It had ...
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Scientific Linux 7.6 Grub Bootup menu not showing Windows 10 partition

Looking for some help... I have a dual boot Dell laptop that has functioned as a dual boot in the past with same software. I had a bug and had to reinstall all last summer, but efforts to recreate ...
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"cannot find EFI directory" Error while installing grub

What I Have Done? I'm planning to replace the current default volume with a new one for some reason, so that's why I'm planning to copy data to it, set up grub, and replace the original volume with ...
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GRUB shows menu for Ubuntu 20.04 but not for Pop!_OS 22.04

I decided to switch to Pop!_OS 22.04 from Ubuntu 20.04, while I'm mentally preparing to switch to Devuan in the future. The GRUB is configurable from Ubuntu as expected, but when I do exactly the same ...
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