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Questions tagged [boot-loader]

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Howto boot directly into a VirtualBox image?

I have a running setup as following: Native OS: Windows 7 64bit, 3 Partitions: c: (System) d: (FAT32, here is my vdi file) e: (unformatted) VirtualBox: Fedora 14 running off the vdi file on drive d. Usually this setup is great for me, but…
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Is there a Linux kernel boot parameter to configure an IPv6 address?

I know there is a parameter named ip which lets you configure IPv4 addresses on the Linux kernel through the boot loader. That looks like the following: ip=192.0.2.1::192.0.2.62:255.255.255.192::eth0:none I'm looking for an equal parameter for IPv6…
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How can I get a Netgear GS748Tv1 bootloader?

We own a Netgear GS748Tv1 (serial 141*). Sadly, due to a firmware update gone wrong, the bootloader got flashed away into oblivion. Since the warranty is expired, Netgear will not help us (this comes from their support staff). The firmware on their…
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Remove MBR from USB flash drive using Windows

I have a USB key that was previously set up as a bootable key (clonezilla) Because of this there is an MBR on the key that will try (and fail) to boot off the key if it is left in a system. Deleting/formatting partitions won't change this. On…
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How can I find out where GRUB was installed?

I need to find where GRUB was installed, for example, which drive/partition. Is it possible to figure out where it was installed?
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How Do You Non-Destructively Check if grub2 is Installed in The Boot Sector or is Being Chain-Loaded by grub1, Without Rebooting?

We're upgrading several systems from Debian Lenny to Squeeze and I'd like to ensure that I haven't missed any grub2 installations. By default, Squeeze chain-boot-loads from grub1 and you have to run upgrade-from-grub-legacy to upgrade. So I'd like…
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using Linux as a bootloader?

I have an embedded device with a SPI connected flash. Basically this means the device boots its bootloader and Linux kernel from a small flash part. As the device boots, but before the root filesystem is mounted and switch_root is called - I'd like…
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Debian installation on software RAID (lilo.conf configuration)

Debian installation program has created lilo.conf: boot=/dev/md1 root=/dev/md1 raid-extra-boot=mbr-only But when i configure lilo i usually put these…
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How to fix Windows 2008 R2 BOOTMGR is missing

BOOTMGR IS MISSING PRESS CTRL+ALT+DEL TO RESTART Note: This is a VM on VMWare ESX server, but that should not matter I put in the 2008 R2 x64 install dvd and can get to recovery, but it lists no Operating Systems. Clicking on Next brings me…
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Unable to boot into software RAID1 after disk failure

Today after restarting my data server I was unable to boot because one of the drives wasn't being recognized any more, it is still spinning when I connect it and not making many weird noises except for a very slight (kind of muted) ticking sound for…
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Booting FreeBSD from whole-disk ZFS pool?

I have a FreeBSD fileserver configured with one ZFS pool created from whole disk devices. That is, the pool was created like this: zpool create pool0 raidz ada0 ada1 ada2 This means the disks have ZFS disklabels, rather than FreeBSD disk labels. …
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Is it possible to mount a subdirectory as the root file system at kernel startup?

I'm trying to install a linux from sources inside my home directory(as oposed to creating a dedicated partition). The basic system(glibc, kernel and init) is installed at $HOME/lfs/root. I'm booting this system using grub installed inside my usb…
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Booting a squashed filesystem from ISO

I am trying to create a UEFI bootable CD ISO with a squashed filesystem from a virtual machine, which I provisioned with the stuff I need. To explain: I use packer and a kickstart file to install CentOS 7 I use a packer provision script to compile…
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Dual boot - Windows shows picker instead of starting

I have laptop with dual boot: Debian and Windows 10. Recently I had some major issues with Windows so I decided to reinstal it from scratch. I created USB stick, formatted partition with Windows and installed it. So far so good. Naturally after OS…
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I deleted all the contents of /boot and now server is not booting

I did something stupid. My thinking was that /boot directory is empty and contents come to /boot each time the computer starts. My /boot drive was giving me error messages no space left so I thought there might be junk files. I deleted all the…
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