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Console application permitting the user to choose between several installed operating systems.

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Cant boot newly created mdadm software raid in Debian linux squeeze

Hello I have very strange problem creating swraid on Debian Squeeze Linux. I started creating RAID1 from existing standard instalation of Debian on single drive. So I bought new drive and started following this…
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Grub 1.98 on Ubuntu 10.04 ignores grub.cfg, goes for menu.lst instead

I've got a VPS that's merrily running Ubuntu 10.04 server (I believe it's on Xen). I was doing some kernel maintenance and updating grub when I noticed that the update-grub tool writes an accurate grub.cfg, but this is apparently ignored by Grub in…
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Creating a partitioned raid1 array for booting a debian squeeze system

I'd like to have the following raid1 (mirror) setup: /dev/md0 consists of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb I created this raid1 device using mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --auto=yes --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda /dev/sdb This gave a warning about…
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Run fsck -y everytime at startup on my main partition Linux

I have an embedded linux system. I use grub2 for the boot loader. I would like to run an fsck -y /dev/sda on /dev/sda every time it boots--even when the system had a power loss and the reboot command was not used. How can I do this?
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Time drift in Cloud Server - need to mainpulate GRUB config

We are hosting a VPS on a popular host and are experiencing a regular time drift of several minutes a day forward (approx 7). Linux Kernel: 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 GNU/Linux Distro: CentOS release 5.4 (Final) We reached out to our hosting provider and…
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Can't install grub, missing sda?

all. I've been struggling with this for a few hours. Can't seem to be able to install GRUB. I'm on a VPS, and what's in /dev looks weird to me: drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 1920 Sep 3 11:51 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Sep 3 11:55…
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GRUB2 not detecting OS on raid partitions

I have recently added a drive to a system and have successfully raid'ed (RAID-1) the paritions, with the exception of the boot partition. I have it ready and mirrored, but can't get GRUB2 (update-grub) to find it. System: Ubuntu 11.04 Raid…
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Debian boot problems

I've got Debian server with one disk. No dual boot or anything fancy. Just Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). I rebooted the server today and now it doesn't boot. I get the following (from GRUB): error: hd0,msdos out of disk I then get a grub prompt grub…
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Debian - corrupted GRUB

I have installed Xen on Debian following the official manual from debian.org. After that I runned grub-update and some time later removed Xen, including xen kernel. I runned grub-update one more time, it says discarding improperly nested…
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Debian Squeeze and RAID firmware after kernel update

I've installed Debian Squeeze on my server several days ago. During install process installer asked me to provide USB flash drive with firmware aic94xx-seq.fw (file disappeared likely due to licensing, you can find it on adaptec site:…
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Kernel Upgrade - Grub default

I'm planning on compiling my own kernel, which I've done many times before but as always there's still a chance this could go wrong and the machine could fail to reboot. This machine is within a remote data center to which I have no physical access…
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Serial terminal over ethernet

Well, my idea is I would like to have access to grub over Ethernet/Internet, I've found two possible solutions: Converter RS232 to Ethernet (1) which looks like to have its own live, I mean it is independent on computer, than I should be able to…
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Linux RAID1 Software - grub resync after fail

I've a linux server with 2 IDE HD & Raid (hda - hdb) I've changed the "BAD" hdb with a new: mdadm --fail /dev/md2 /dev/hdb3 mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/hdb2 mdadm --fail /dev/md1 /dev/hdb1 mdadm --remove /dev/md1 /dev/hdb1 mdadm --remove /dev/md0…
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Help fixing GRUB for linux/winxp dual boot scenario

a long story here, but basically I had windows xp on sda1 aka (hd0,0) and ubuntu on sdb5 aka (hd1,4) and they were booting fine. Something messed up with ubuntu, I reinstalled, and tried to fix grub.. in the course of it all I believe I accidentally…
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Linux boot: Can I prevent the loading of a module using a boot parameter?

I know that I can blacklist a module in /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, but I have a nasty module which loads before the filesystems are mounted (except /boot of course), so I assume, /etc will not yet be read by then. Can I prevent…
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