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Installing LILO to software-RAID1 with failed item
Item /dev/sda1 of software RAID1 /dev/md0 has gone to a better world. md0 is mounted to a root / directory, and it contains /boot directory.
My lilo.conf configure is
boot=/dev/md0
root=/dev/md0
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SSD won't boot anymore [migrated]
Yesterday I put the computer to sleep.
Something went wrong because it didn't go fully to sleep.
So I restarted the pc and now it won't boot windows 7 anymore.
It said : "Please insert valid boot ...
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how to boot directly to terminal in ubuntu [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change default runlevel of Ubuntu (lucid)?
I have a ubuntu bootable usb. how do i boot to terminal in ubuntu, directly. I am having usb setup. Sure that its same ...
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Why won't my Windows PE RAM Disk (CD-ROM) boot?
I created a Windows PE RAM disk (CD-ROM) from the instructions on technet. I'm on a Windows 7 x64 system and my "reference" system is the same. I changed the boot priority to CD-ROM first on the ...
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Create a bootable usb drive with simple message
This should be simple but cannot get my head around it.
Want to create a bootable usb drive (FreeDos, Syslinux GrubforDos) really don't care.
All I need is it to boot and display a simple message and ...
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RHEL 6 boot errors
On boot my RHEL 6 machine shows a few errors just after kernel selection but before decrypting the disk:
pnp 00:0c: can't evaluate _CRS: 8
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: failed to load fuc409c
I'm not ...
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Windows boot iso file without press any key
I'm trying to make an iso file which will boot without any key-press from the user.
In Windows iso files, when booting from a cd, there is a message "press any key to boot from cd" which will wait for ...
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VMWare ESXi 5 - How to clone Windows 2008 SBS
I am running two Windows 2008 Server on a VMware ESXi 5 Server (VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Kit). There are two different ESXi hosts within my VMware datacenter environment. Let us call them ...
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Accessing stdin during systemd boot
I have a script which solicits a numeric input from the user while booting the computer. The computer is running Fedora 16. It used work, on Fedora 13, but after the upgrade
read INTEGER
returns ...
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HP laptop boot loop & black screen [migrated]
After loading a driver for an external usb wifi adapter, this laptop is having issues booting.
Symptoms are:
Boots up but loops after 15 seconds or so, don't know if it is actually posting
Black ...
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Repair Windows 2008 boot
I have been caught in a loop where I can't boot up Windows Server 2008.
When the OS starts to boot I am presented two options:
Launch Startup Repair (recommended)
Start Windows Normally
No matter ...
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Server RAID 1 Cannot rebuilt, cannot boot into Windows
My office's server has failed recently after a power outage (we have no UPS).
It turned out that it will not even boot into Windows (not even safe mode). The server was running in RAID 1 consisting a ...
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booting FreeBSD 9 from USB stick: boot error
I am trying to boot FreeBSD 9 from a USB stick that I created following the official guidelines:
dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=64k
Booting fails with a simple 'boot ...
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httpd won't start on boot
I have some problemes with apache on CENTOS...
When I reboot the system, httpd won't start
I have to execut my-self "service httpd start"
chkconfig httpd --list
httpd 0:off 1:off ...
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Debian system won't boot due to corrupt file system
I am having this problem with my server when I boot. I'm trying the fsck /dev/sda1 by logging into maintenance mode which i get the option to do when it boots. Check the screen shot.
It's so far ...
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Starting a daemon automatically from init.d
I installed vnstats to see bandwidth statistics, I copied an init.d file tempalte, I placed it in init.d directory, it works ok to access this file and do start/restart/status, but this file should ...
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Dell Poweredge 1550 boot from USB or CDRom
I am trying to get a dell power edge 1550 to boot off cd or USB so I can install CentOs. I created a CD with a CentOs ISO on it but the system won't recognize it. Even when I set the settings to only ...
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Solaris drv/cpc module error on boot
On boot with a Solaris 11 machine, I am seeing the following error:
dcpc: unable to resolve dependency, cannot load module 'drv/cpc'
I'm having problems pinning down what is causing this to show up ...
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Choosing a device name under /dev from the kernel command line
I am booting CentOS via a USB install. The boot method is simply booting the ISO from GRUB2 installed on the USB Key and then grabbing a Kickstart file from a server in the net.
The Kickstart file is ...
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chkconfig not starting application script on bootup
OS: Centos 5.7
My application script starts like this (/etc/init.d/myapp):
#!/bin/sh
# chkconfig 2345 85 60
# description: my application controller
# processname: myapp
NAME=MyApp
DIR=/opt/myapp/
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS full /boot/
I've got a Ubuntu server 10.04 that have been running since 10.04. Today when apticron mailed me about new packages the installation of a new kernel update failed due to a full /boot partition. ...
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Boot configuration error: Fedora 15
I have a Fedora 15 installation on VirtualBox. When I added another virtual hd it erased all the grub.conf.
Now I'm trying to manually add the CD-LIVE correct command in grub.conf, but is giving ...
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Linux: Can I prepare a boot-disk for another system when CPU architecture differs?
On a remote server the boot/system disk is corrupting. It is running Debian 4.0 on an Intel Core 2 CPU 4300 @ 1.80GHz.
Is it possible to "prepare" a bootable disk I'll then send to my ISP to install?
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Run Securetrading java jar file automatically on startup of centos server
This is an extension of my previous post. Basically I want to start the following service automatically when the server is booted:
cd /usr/local/stapi java –jar StApi.jar
this is from Securetrading ...
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raid boot error
in boot.log
/dev/md1: clean, 320806/58155008 files, 91390310/232603728 blocks
/dev/md0 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
/dev/md0: 32/24384 files (9.4% non-contiguous), 19957/97536 blocks
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unable to boot centos
I'm unable to boot centos 5.2. It starts and shows me menu listing, which means there is not any issue with grub.
Here is screen shot after starting server... it goes to prompt bash prompt instead ...
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Solaris boot error
When booting a newly installed Solaris machine, I get this error
vbiosd [error]: unable to open /dev/fb, No such file or directory
Any idea on what this is? How to resolve or silence it?
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What is the recommended size for a linux /boot partition?
What is the recommended size for a linux /boot partition?
And is it safe to not have a /boot partition?
I see some servers don't have a /boot partition while some servers have a 128M /boot ...
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Why does grub 2 complain about video mode every now and then?
After installing 3 completely different PCs with a dual boot setup of Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot (11.10) and Windows 7 SP1 both in their x86 64 bit versions, using grub 2 as bootloader, I get a strange ...
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Extremely fast booting server
I'm changing the way that our DHCP/DNS stuff works at work. Currently we've got 3 DNS servers, and a DHCP box. All of them are VMs.
There's a circular dependency where stuff booting requires NFS, ...
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What to do with suddenly unreachable non-logging EC2 instance?
I have an EC2 "micro instance" running Canonical's Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Has been running for 6-9 months now, infrequently rebooted (once every few weeks at the most).
I just did what I thought was a ...
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How to install grub on multiple disks?
I have weird situation - order of disks as reported by BIOS, is different than order of disks that Linux sees.
Which makes for problematic run - grub installs to sda, but bios boots from sdd or ...
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Burn in 50 Computers without installing an OS on each
I am burn in testing 50 propritary PCs for a customer. I am having some issues figureing out how to burn these machines in using my customers requirements.
I must use Passmark Standard 6.0 or >.
I ...
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Windows Web server 2008 boot take long time
I have a server using windwos web server 2008 R2 ( 64bit)
Yesterday I saw it was very slowly and dont response to request correctly then try to restart it,
windows try to booting and show start screen ...
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vmware install on raid, no logical drive seen
Trying to install vmware esxi 5 on a fujitsu S100R5 server (two drive bays).
I have the drives as a hardware RAID 1 array, but vmware is showing the two physical drives at install time.
If i ...
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Moving an existing Linux into an LVM
We have a server with an existing Linux installation (CentOS 6) + boot partition on disk 1, and an empty disk 2. What we'd like to setup is this:
One disk (1 or 2, doesn't matter):
The main system ...
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booting a system with failed devices in a RAID1 array
I have a Linux system set up with 3 software RAID1 devices, each of which comprises two identical partitions on two identical disks. Recently, one of the non-root partitions on one disk began ...
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VSFTPD Ubuntu won't start on boot
I have a server running Ubuntu 11.04 Server and I have installed vsftpd (FTP).
I am trying to get vsftpd to run on startup, but can't seem to configure it right.
There is already an upstart vsftpd ...
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Debain no longer booting after apt-get remove upstart
I can no longer boot my server up. I get the following issue:
Loading, please wait...
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
# _
and ...
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grub2 does not find /boot on RAID1 md0 device
I have RAID1 md0 for /boot consisting of 4 partitions (sda2, sdb2, sdc2, sdd2).
I'm using GPT on 2TB HDDs, so first partitions on each disk (sda1, ...) are 1-megabyte bios_grub partitions.
I also ...
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Vmware ESXi 4.1u1 installer unable to find EMC LUN
We have
DELL R710 with Broadcom NetExtreme II 5709 card.
EMC Celerra NX4
Broadcom card is configured property to use specific LUN on EMC SAN (we use VLANs). We can clearly see that it finds the ...
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Failure to bare boot windows 7 that was installed under kvm
I installed windows 7 (enterprise, amd64) in kvm (to /dev/hdb) because I don't have a dvd drive on this box, so I just started kvm with the parameters "-hda /dev/hdb -cdrom win7.iso".
That installs ...
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Booting root filesystem on LVM
I can't seem to make this work (or find info on the internet on the issue). Are there any additional settings when creating initramfs with the root filesystem on lvm?
This should be the settup:
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What is the easiest way to run a boot level surface scan?
I have a PowerEdge 1850 running two SCSI Ultra 320 drives (10k 73gb). I am looking for recommendations on boot disks / methods to run a boot time surface scan. I would like to do this at boot time ...
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SUSE box hangs possibly due to Reiserfs partition issue
I've got a SUSE box with 8GB RAM and Reiserfs filesystem which has been running smoothly for over 4 years with no o/s and h/w related problems. The box serves a couple of (database driven) sites of ...
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environment var not found on SuSe init.d script at boot
I've got a /etc/init.d/tomcat1 script which runs on boot on rc levels 3 and 5. This script calls /usr/local/tomcat1/bin/startup.sh on start.
Although I can manually execute ...
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Broadcom BCM5716 Hangs on CentOS 6 Boot
I have a fresh CentOS 6 installation on a Dell R310 server with a Broadcom BCM5716. The onboard NIC is causing the boot to hang for some reason.
Welcome to CentOS Linux
Starting udev: udev: starting ...
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IBM x3620 Server takes a long time to boot past UEFI to OS
I have a pair of IBM System x3620 servers. These servers do fine once they finally reach the point where the operating system takes over, but it takes them forever to get past the new-fangled UEFI ...
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Commands /etc/init/boot.local get started before some environment variables get initialized
I have OpenSuse 11.4.
I start some on-boot scripts inside /etc/init/boot.local.
Where could I move those scripts so that they would be started after all (most) environment variables got initialized?
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