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Booting is the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when electrical power is switched on. The process begins when a computer that has been turned off is re-energized, and ends when the computer is ready to perform its normal operations.

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SAS HBA server won't boot under Ubuntu

I Have a Supermicro server with a SAS HBA card, connected to a 44-disk array. It worked perfectly fine, until I reinstalled it on Ubuntu 22.04. Now it won't boot. It hangs right after bios/uefi ...
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Troubleshooting Wake-on-Lan on Dell Microplex

I am trying to get WOL working, but it simply does not help to power on my devices. Here's what I have tried: I have a 2 PCs of different make/models connected to a Cisco Switch. Both them do not work,...
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Debian 11 fails to update grub configuration

I have the following error when I run an update script with ansible: Generating grub configuration file ...", "Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-26-amd64", "Found initrd ...
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Fix broken link /etc/extlinux.conf

The link /etc/extlinux.conf is broken [root@p6t etc]# file /etc/extlinux.conf /etc/extlinux.conf: broken symbolic link to `../boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf System boots just fine without it. How to fix ...
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"Can't read superblock" when trying to boot . Failed to mount /dev/mapper/xxxxxxx on real root

I finished setting up my new Arch system about a month ago. Since I had two nvme drives to use for the system I did some research on how I could use both of them to utilize the full capacity of both ...
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Kernel Panic on Ubuntu Boot

I recently encountered a perplexing issue with my Ubuntu system during boot-up. After powering on, instead of the usual login screen, I was met with a series of error messages culminating in a kernel ...
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Services attempt to bind to IPv6 address before it comes up

I have a couple of services on Ubuntu 23.04, BIND and Nginx, which are configured to bind to specific IPv6 addresses. However, they fail to start because systemd attempts to start them before the IPv6 ...
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Storage configuration leads to Ubuntu Linux Server Boot failure - ( initramfs )

Ubuntu Server 22.04 installation is completed and successful but the OS doesn't boot! What does mean initramfs ? I've tried to install Ubuntu Server 22.04 on VM. Installation is completed and ...
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after migrating kvm virtual machine with Centos7 to LXD container, the only process that starts at boot is systemd (/sbin/init)

the title pretty much describes it all. After starting the container the only running process is /sbin/init which is a link to systemd. No syslog, empty journalctl, lxc-start with console attached ...
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How to use grub as netboot menu with ipxe?

I am setting up a small office’s netboot solution. I have the machines configured to pxe boot an initial ipxe.efi nbp with an embedded ipxe script to chain request against a matchbox server for my k8s ...
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Finding how a Linux system was booted

I have a remote server, running Linux 5.19.0-41-generic x86_64, I am trying to find out how it was booted. Apparently, it does not use systemd : PID 1 process is bash. ps -p 1 -o comm= bash ...
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Generate uefi signature keys for xcp-ng

I am trying to install xcp-ng on a new server, with uefi mode enabled (I am upgrading from a previous install, so uefi is mandatory) unfortunately, my new server does not recognize xcp-ng 8.x ...
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"Factory Reset"-Strategy with an UEFI-x86-GPIO-Board

What would be the "right" strategy for this use-case? x86_64-platform with UEFI 40-Pin GPIO available Ubuntu/Debian and Yocto-Custom-Build available (by manufacturer) for that platform/...
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drive went missing but came back on reboot, how to rebuild missing boot partition?

I checked my server and found one drive to be missing: root@tiefenkaese ~ # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT nvme1n1 259:0 0 476.9G 0 disk ├─nvme1n1p1 259:2 0 32G ...
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How can linux system boot/reboot without bootloader installed?

Today I saw that grub is missing on my system (how that happened is another question). Checked with apt/dpkg: no grub* package installed, also no lilo or systemd-boot package installed. Also was ...
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Copy boot disk to backup drive using recovery mode or live cd

I am trying to make a backup of my 1TB boot drive without physically removing the drive or adding more drives. I have a 5TB drive installed that has enough space in one of its partitions to store a ...
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Remotely initiating an unattended Windows reinstallation on multiple machines from a partition

I am aiming to achieve the following: Install Windows from scratch on Disk 0 partition Prestage the machines remotely before reinstallation (using a custom tool I am developing). The tool ensures ...
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Mounting an encrypted fs WITH prompt at boot time (LUKS, cryptsetup)

Per company policy my laptop has to be very secure in case of theft, so I have created an encrypted partition (LUKS) that I want to mount via /etc/fstab. However, I do NOT want to add passphrase to ...
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Convert MDADM RAID disk to non-raid disk

I have an existing RAID1 disk that is my boot & root drive locally. I want to convert this disk to a non-RAID disk and allow boot & root to be mounted without mdadm. What is the best way to ...
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How to boot debian from both drives from a MD-RAID1 with LVM

i use a debian box with a MD-RAID1 with two drives and a LVM. My problem is that, obviously, i#m only able to boot from the first drive, but not the second. root@myhost:/home/myuser# fdisk -l Disk /...
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automatic mounting of encrypted zfs dataset

As a newbie to zfs, I am having trouble getting an encrypted dataset mounted during boot. The dataset is protected with a raw key and not a passphrase. This is how I created the zpool and the dataset: ...
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OS doesn't recognize harddisk at inital startup but after reboot

I have a Debian 11 server with 4 HDD. Two of them are in a Raid 1 array. When I shutdown the server completely and then turn it on again, the boot routine stops because it cannot find the Raid 1 ...
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Booting specifics on NVMe

I have a problem with transferring my OS from SATA SSD to PCIe NVMe and maybe someone can give me more ideas to solve the next problem. The hardware is HPE MicroServer Gen8 running Windows Server 2022....
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Not automount volume after GlusterFS client booting up by autofs

I have configured GlusterFS between 3 rocky servers and mounting the gluster volume under /srv/gluster/vol01 directory. I had to install glusterfs-client in the 4th machine. My primary objective was ...
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Dell R620 - problems with boot order [duplicate]

I have an "old" Dell R620 that in a previous life was used as a EXI host. The machine has a 1G SD card with which had the VMware software on it. I have now installed linux on the HD. The ...
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ZFS Pool of USB Drives causes zsf-import-cache.service to fail on boot [closed]

I setup a ZFS pool on my "home server" (Raspberry Pi 4b) that consists of various HDD and SSD drives connected over USB to the Pi. I have noticed that whenever a reboot occurs, the ZFS pool ...
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Cannot boot on Arch Linux after modifying kernel parameters with GRUB

Looking for a way to set my backlights on my laptop running Arch Linux (and Windows on a dual boot), I edited the /etc/default/grub file to change a kernel parameter. Here is what I changed: # before ...
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Dell R620 - problems with boot setup

I have an "old" R620 that in a previous life was used as a ESX host. The machine has a 1GB SD card with which had the VMware software on it. I have installed ubuntu on the HD. No matter ...
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Full disk encryption on CentOS 9 Stream with TPM2 decryption at boot time

I'm working on provisioning a server that requires full drive encryption and I want to automate the process of decrypting the drive at startup using the TPM2 module available on the motherboard, but I ...
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freeze on "Loading initial ramdisk" debian 9

I have a functional debian 9 (kernel 4.9.0-19-amd64) on an old pc, I made an image of this debian with clonezilla and I put it on a newer pc... I know it's bad ^^ My concern is that when I boot ...
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Windows Images created with dd cannot be restored

I used a live USB Linux system to create images of Windows Installations (Win 8 and 10) on hard drives like this: dd if=/dev/sdb bs=64k conv=noerror, sync | gzip -c > /dev/sdc1/win.img.gz However,...
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NVMe drive disappears after kernel panic

I'm working on imaging a Dell OptiPlex Micro 3000 device with Linux (custom Yocto-based OS). Grub version 2.04. I'm using an A/B partitioning scheme and trying to get the fallback to function properly ...
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Unable to Boot After Cloning Windows Server Datacenter 2022 to a New SSD

I have a Dell R720 server running Windows Server Datacenter 2022, and the disk containing the operating system has bad tracks that spread over time. To migrate the OS, I used DiskGenius to clone all ...
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Penguin server won't boot after swapping failed hard drive in RAID 6

So I have a Penguin Relion 1900 1U rack mounted server running CentOS 7 that recently had a hard disk failure. It had 4 hard drives configured in RAID 6. To replace the failed HDD, I powered off the ...
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LVM not recognised at startup, system does not boot (PROXMOX VM)

I'm facing a problem I don't know how to fix. I was trying to reduce size of a qcow2 file and I made a backup copy of the original file. After some problems with the reduced qcow2 file I decided to ...
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HP Proliant Servers doesn't boot OS ("boot logical drive is configured but is missing or offline" error)

I purchased a refurbished HP Proliant Server DL560 Gen8 in order to create my own home lab. The most painful step was to get an Operating System properly working, doesn't matter what was the OS. I ...
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Dell PowerEdge t610 will not boot ESXI installer from USB

I downloaded the ESXI installer from VMWare for V8. I checked and the MD5 matches with what's listed on the download. I'm using a Mac to write the iso to a known working USB (using DD) The server will ...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu machine after power outage

So I'm generally a web developer but a place I do some help for is asking me why this is happening after a power failure at their location... I'm looking to get some feedback on how to do this so that ...
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Logical volumes are not activated on boot

Ubuntu 22.04.1 here. I have a volume group called system created during installation. There are three logical volumes in this group. --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/system/swap ...
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Windows Boot disk doesnt boot in Gcloud Vm Instances

I'm trying to boot differents physical disk in gcloud. So the complete process is: I dd the physical disk in linux (with a bs of 1G). Later i compressed in format tar.gz (with format=oldgnu, like ...
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Fix kernel issues in rescue mode

I have updated the kernel in a VPS Centos 7, and after rebooting, the machine is not responding anymore, including with SSH. I connected to the VPS via a temporary rescue linux machine from where I ...
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OK to power down server every day?

If I may give a little background before my question. I'm winding down my web developmet business so have moved out of the office to WFH. I might just do some work maybe one or two days a week. Have a ...
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Supermicro won't boot from RAID virtual drive after a power outage

One of our Supermicro servers won't boot from the virtual drive on a MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i after a power outage. It can still boot from a USB stick without trouble, all hard drives and file systems ...
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Does UEFI info on the hard drive's boot partition gets written to the system's BIOS?

I was transferring a set of existing raid drives into a second-hand server, an HP Gen9 server. I observed 2 interesting details: When I was configuring UEFI boot Order shown in the picture below, I ...
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After installing ubuntu server error PXE-E53 and PXE-M0F on Fujitsu Primergy S1

My server was running on Debian 11. I have wanted to reinstall it with a new Debian version and after installation, it wrote me: Please remove installation medium, then press Enter I have removed the ...
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Can I mksqashfs a whole Mint 20 OS then restore with unsquashfs on a different drive?

I have a very strict system with the bare minimum applications on for security reasons since I work with medical data. Sometimes the laptops we use messup for one reason or another, won't boot, can't ...
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Traffic capture at boot

I'm trying to figure out what packets a linux host sends at boot in order to debug it. Is there a way to start packet capture during boot time to not miss any packets? What is your way of going about ...
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How to change BootOption bios settings with redfish?

I'm trying to change the NIC a server boots from using the redfish module in python. The server is a supermicro board: Firmware Version 01.00.17 Firmware Build Time 09/02/2021 Redfish Version ...
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IBM HS20 Blade server rebooting due to NMI Error

I have an HS20 Blade which is mounted inside a BladeCenter H Console. When I first boot the machine, it displays the following error: See the System Error Log. Re-booting due to unexpected NMI at ...
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OpenSUSE transactional server boot partition and efi

I have following problem with OpenSUSE transactional server. By mistake it was configured with /boot being ext4 partition on a dedicated drive, which also contains /boot/efi. I have noticed that /boot ...
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