Console application permitting the user to choose between several installed operating systems.
Questions tagged [grub]
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How do I get rid of my duplicate GRUB entries? (Ubuntu 12.10, RAID1)
I have a Dell R300 machine running Ubuntu 12.10:
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
Codename: quantal
$ uname -a
Linux green 3.2.0-32-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep…
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Paul Schreiber
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Update Grub In Another filesystem
My cloud server hosted in Rackspace stopped working after I installed some GUI application in Ubuntu 12.04 which automatically installed it's dependency package ubuntu-desktop (or some other similar (GUI) package).
Actually, that happened 2 weeks…
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Booting Fedora guest VBox on /dev/mapper/vg0-fc17-root
I already have the following logical volumes:
host:/dev/mapper/vg0-fc17-boot (guestOS:/dev/hdb) formatted as ext4 (no partition table)
host:/dev/mapper/vg0-fc17-root (guestOS:/dev/hdc) formatted as ext4 (no partition table)
Do I have to create the…
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Installing a custom 'non-rpm' kernel in CentOS 6
I've built a custom kernel using kernel.org, it has no .rpm file. How do I manually:
Install the Modules to /lib/modules (make moduleinstall or something?)
Make the initial ramdisk
Update grub
I haven't seen any documentation on how to do this for…
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How to make a bootable USB out of my VPS?
I copied a backup of my entire VPS (Debian on OpenVZ) on a USB drive, and want to boot from this USB to test something on my server (in fact its duplicate). However, there is no nothing in the boot directory (I've no idea how OpenVZ boots the OS).…
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Software to automate physical provisioning of GRUB, linux, windows, dualboot
Is there software that can help automate (or make it repeatable) setting up PC's or lab servers where the setup includes GRUB for bootloading multi-boot for Windows, Debian, CentOS, etc.
I was originally looking at tools like Boxgrinder and Cobbler,…
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Restore GRUB after Windows installation (Arch Linux)
After installing Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on a machine running Arch Linux the MBR became rewritten (I do not think GRUB has been uninstalled). Arch is now unbootable except if I use the live-CD to boot, and then choose from the local drives.
The disk…
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stock arch linux with pv-grub on linode
I am attempting to use pv-grub on a stock arch linux instance on linode by following this post:-
http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?p=49387
Unfortunately, I am unable to get my pv-grub enabled instance booted up.
Here's the error log I am able to…
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Calvin Cheng
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Xen Issues - Total Memory + Grub Disappeared
I'm pretty much a newbie when it comes to the Xen Hypervisor, either way I installed it on a dedicated server, I just removed OpenVZ since it was annoying me. So, I followed http://www.crc.id.au/xen-on-rhel6-scientific-linux-6-centos-6-howto/…
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Linux kernel upgrade broke : How do I remove the kernel that broke it all?
I just upgraded an Ubuntu 10.04 (Server Edition) to '2.6.32-36'. However, after doing that upgrade the server would not longer start and GRUB tells me that it is unable to read the header.
I rebooted the machine, held down shift while starting up…
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sbrattla
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Copying Windows to a second drive and booting via grub?
Here is my situation:
I have a netbook with an 8gb SSD as its first drive and a 32gb drive
as its secondary drive. I was hoping to install windows xp on a 20gb
partition and then share the remaining 8gb drive and 12gb partition
from drive2 for my…
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Linux: Rebuilding MD-RAID 1 array when one drive has been out of array for awhile
About a month and a half ago I noticed that the two hard drives in a (OpenSuSE 11.3) server were dying. Guessing based off the SMART data, I replaced /dev/sdb first; to do this I removed the drive from the array, shut down the server, replaced the…
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Kendall
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Grub install devices & Software RAID
Server has a software RAID 1 (sda+sdb) configured as /dev/md0 device.
Later system upgrade was launched and grub updated. Now it promped to select grub unstall devices from the list to finish update:
- /dev/sda
- /dev/sdb
- /dev/md0
What items…
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Valera Leontyev
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Centos 5.5 SoftRaid Grub Installation
I did the Soft RAID 1 installation with Centos 5.5 on my server with 2 SATA 1TB disks.
I followed this great guide here:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5
However, there is one bit difference, that my Grub is default installing to…
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“signal out of range” when starting grub after Natty server installation
I get “signal out of range” displayed on screen after boot up from fresh Ubuntu installation, if flashes grup in corner for half a sec then it goes to “No Input Signal”, anyone got a clue how to get the grub to load in diffrent resolution with out…
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