Console application permitting the user to choose between several installed operating systems.
Questions tagged [grub]
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install grub on disk image
I have disk image with 2 partitions:
Partition 1 has cramfs file system (read only). This partition contains all system files of the OS
Partition 2 has ext3 file system. This partition has only configuration files that may be changed.
How can I…
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Dima
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Grub to boot USB HDD
My machine is using Ubuntu 8.04 (=> legacy grub). It is backed up regularly and I would like to check I am able to restore the backup.
This backup includes everything on the system, including /boot (the only things excluded are things like /proc,…
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CentOS 5.5 - passing parameters from grub to the user space
I need to add an additional title to my grub.conf file and after OS boot I need start different services depends on it
What the better way to do that?
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Dima
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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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Debian update confuses GRUB with md0 not sda1
I removed a software RAID setup on a server I took over several years ago and everything worked fine until I upgraded the kernel the other day. It seems when debian updated the grub menu.lst file it not only added the new kernel with md0 but also…
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Problem restoring from tar backup: why are there /dev/disk/by-id/ symlinks and how can I avoid them?
I'm trying to make a bare-bone backup system with the most basic tools available on openSUSE 11.3 (in this case: bash, fdisk, tar & grub legacy)
Here's the workflow for my scripts:
backup.sh:
(Run from external system, e.g. LiveCD)
make an fdisk…
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Blank screen after grub menu
I just rebooted an Ubuntu Server 10.04. After choosing boot options in the grub menu, though, it just displays a black screen with the blinking white underscore in the upper-left corner.
The machine has had (hardware) trouble with networking before,…
user68912
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How can a BAT script find the partition number of %systemdrive%
I am trying to write a BAT script to produce a grub4dos menu.lst file.
A boot entry in the menu.lst file typically contains a line like:
root (hdx,y)
where x is the hard disk number(first disk hd0) and y is the partition number on the disk (first…
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How to change grub defaults?
I've got Ubuntu 10.04 and Grub 0.97, I've created /etc/default/grub (according to example in menu.lst):
defoptions=
howmany=all
But every-time when update-grub is executed quite splash is appended as kernel parameter. I cannot find out why this…
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Installing grub2 on ubuntu with software raid mirroring
Can someone help me out on this?
I accidentally installed grub on usb flash drive during ubuntu server installation.
Now I cant boot system without drive attached to server.
I want to install grub on hard drive with grub-install but i don't know…
Marko
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How to get rid of grub error on aptitude safe-upgrade
This is a new ubuntu 10.04 root server at the hoster. I did the initial
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Now I am confronted with this message each time I run sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
root@Ubuntu-1004-lucid-64-minimal ~ # sudo…
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mit
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grub2 error : out of disk
I recently install ArchBang on a machine with Ubuntu and XP. I ran update-grub from Ubuntu and it found the new install and created an entry. However, when I try to boot it, I get:
error: out of disk
error: you need to load kernel first
I've tried…
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I can't boot Win7 OR Ubuntu after installing Ubuntu 9.10
i made a partition on my new computer because i decided that i wanted to have both Win7 and Ubuntu 9.10. I made a disc image on my usb driver, and restarted my computer as to run Ubuntu without making any changes, ust to try it out. I then decided i…
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Kernel Panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init (for VM image from a physical machine)
I had a CentOS 5.4 x86_64 machine where I imaged the primary partition with the following command so that I could run it in a VM on my local machine for testing.
#dd bs=1024 count=10482412 if/dev/sda of/mnt/storage/sda.img
Then I converted the…
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How to permanently ignore grub-pc package for aptitude?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 virtualized under Xen and the grub-pc package is broken and apt-get notifies me every time I run it.
I just want to configure apt-get / aptitude to ignore this package permanently.
How do I do this?
Errors were encountered…
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