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Questions tagged [boot-loader]

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Can't boot VM after P2V or ghost - Linux 2.6

I got this old machine that runs on a p2 400 and a Linux Debian 3.1 with kernel 2.6.8 and since it has modified binaries due to internal undocumented changes in the code, migrating off manually isn't an option, so I was trying to P2V this box with…
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Windows 7 boot manager not localized on UEFI systems

I originally posted this on SuperUser because I discovered this behaviour on my home computer, but this seems to be a general issue on UEFI systems, thus I'm posting here too; I also hope someone here can shed some light on what's going on. Italian…
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An Error Occurred Installing Boot Loader (SLES 10.1)

I am trying to install SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) SP 1 onto a server but I'm having an issue with the bootloader. I go through the install, more a less default options except Gnome Desktop is not installed and the OS appears to install…
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Windows 7 Bootloader installs to wrong drive when installing from secondary hard drive

I have set up an unattended installation of Windows 7, but my setup causes the bootloader to be installed to the wrong drive. Here is the setup: Drive 0 (OS Drive): This is the drive that the OS gets installed to. This is also the drive I want the…
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repair Grub bootloader

I had Xubuntu installed on my laptop on harddrive /dev/sda on partition /dev/sda1. Something bad happened and when I restarted my laptop black screen appeared with "kernel panic" message. So I decided to install Lubuntu from live CD. I installed it…
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Systems Loader/ Boot systems

I have installed WIN 7 on my laptop, and currently I need to install other systems for test my app, Where can I find good boot loader for add/remove/ load a few systems ? Thanks.
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Cannot boot VM on VirtualBox imported from oracle cloud instance: Command Error Status: Unsupported

I followed the steps to connect my oracle cloud account to VirtualBox and I managed to trigger the import to one of my instances based on ubuntu 22.04 aarch64. The import is successful. However when I try to start my VM I have the…
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"Invalid system disk" after "There are differences between boot sector and its backup"

I created a live LMDE5 system on a USB pen drive using Rufus and everything was working fine except for a large number of warnings and critical error messages I got from dmesg. There where some security warnings regarding a CPU vulnerability and…
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Boot manager shows two entries but only one partition remains after restore

I had to perform a recovery (using veeam recovery agent) on a windows 2019 server instance. Before the recovery the system was configured as software raid (mirroring) with two dynamic disks. After the recovery only one disk remained and is now a…
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Oracle Linux server boot failure

I have an Oracle Linux 6.9 server which crashed and now it is failing to boot with the following error. Boot Failed - Hard Disk 0: Fv (CDxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx) / FvFiles(1Fxxxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxxx-9-xxxx) Any help would be highly…
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bcdedit doesn't work in Windows PE when Applying/Deploying/Restoring an Image?

I captured an image and I'm trying to restore it to a different VM without using Sysprep since I'm actively using the vm server I want to clone and I don't want to have to set it back up again, I could but it would be a waste of time: Started the…
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Back up the restore partition and boot loader?

Got a new workstation replacement laptop and it came with XP Pro. I'm going to use it to test Windows 7 and Ubuntu, but it may need to go back to XP later on. It has the recovery option at boot and a 10GB partition at the end of the disk for the…
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QNAP TS-228 u-boot firmware

I am looking for somebody with a functioning QNAP TS-228 (32 bit; non-a version). I had a firmware upgrade gone bad and the firmware got corrupted. I have a usb ttl so I managed to connect to serial console and somewhat fix the box…
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Install Ubuntu on a separate hard drive?

I am running Windows 7. I would like to dual-boot Ubuntu, but minimize risk of something going wrong. In the past I have encountered an issue with the bootloader getting corrupted and having to reformat the whole drive. The magic bootloader recovery…
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How big is grub2?

Due to "Meltdown" I am in the progress of moving our CentOS7-XEN-PV-DomUs to HVM mode. See here on why I need to migrate to HVM This involves installing a bootloader - unnessesary on PV-DomUs, since they use pygrub to emulate the grub/grub2 boot…
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