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boot.ini, boot from primary partitions after extended partition
There's several issues / factors you can consider.
1. 1024 cylinder issue.
During the bootstrap process, Windows NT 4.0 uses INT13 BIOS functions
to access the drive. The INT13 functions have a ...
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What’s the point of a BIOS password?
In addition to davidgo's answer (his answer popped up while I was typing mine, but did not want to discard the answer)
There is still a usercase where password protecting the BIOS is useful.
A ...
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What’s the point of a BIOS password?
There is some validity to your thinking, but you may have overlooked (at least) 2 use cases -
The first one is a way for corporate IT to put up a barrier to make it that much harder for people who don'...
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How to boot an OS (Ubuntu) installed for a diferent (protected) PC?
If the notebook's disk is not at all accessible on the x99 PC, that might be a SATA disk password lock implemented by the notebook firmware.
Otherwise, if the problem is just in booting, it sounds ...
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How to mount and run a bootx64.efi file on Hyper-V?
The instructions you link to contain nothing about creating an ISO image. To be UEFI-bootable, an ISO image must satisfy certain requirements. Unless it absolutely has to be an ISO image, I recommend ...
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two Win10 OS on different physical ssd device
after completing the installation process, I'm still able to see folders from my other SSD device. This situation raises a couple of questions: Why are these folders appearing on my new SSD
An OS ...
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Windows 10 Stuck in a Recovery Mode Boot Loop
Make a full drive image, using a bootable USB, with tools such as Macrium Rescue Environment or an alternative.
Download the ISO from Microsoft to USB using their media creation tool.
Reinstall, ...
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Windows 10 Stuck in a Recovery Mode Boot Loop
Try running Repair with the Microsoft Windows 10 USB.
Microsoft Media Creation Link
I am not sure (depending on where stuck) whether this will work, but most likely not. However, you can always try. ...
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Cannot boot after applying OpenCore Legacy Patcher Monteray for a MacBook5,1 (Late 2008 Aluminum Unibody)
I managed to create a situation where there is no EFI boot partition on either the main system disk, or the OpenCore Legacy Patcher Monterey install USB.
The older mac models cannot natively boot ...
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systemd-timesyncd: fails on boot due to ordering cycle (dbus, sysinit)
This happens because of a strange bug in Rocky 9. I am not sure if it exists in original RHEL 9 or in other RHEL clones.
The main reason consists of the line
After=systemd-sysusers.service dbus.socket
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Can't Install any Linux Distro on new AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Mini PC
I ran into the same issue, and found an answer on the following page:
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/02/gmktec-m5-mini-pc-review-as-home-server/
In the BIOS menu under "CPU ...
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