Booting (also known as booting up) 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. On modern ...
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How to boot GRUB2 so it mounts “root” on a different drive (remote server without kvm switch)
Summary:
I created a copy of the root file system on a raid array (with one disk on it), and im trying to get the system to boot off that newly copied drive.
Background:
2 disks of same size in ...
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Red Hat Kickstart: How do I get a DVD-ROM based install to work?
I'm trying to create a "Magic DVD" that will install and configure RHEL 6.2 just the way we want it the first time, every time.
Here's the process I've been trying to use, just to prove the concept:
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Moving Windows 2003 boot+system partition
I have a Windows 2003 server with:
- C: (15 Gb boot+system) on an old PATA disk
- G: (20 Gb empty) on a SCSI hardware RAID
- H: (220 Gb datas) on the same SCSI RAID
I want to move C: to the RAID. I ...
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CentOS 6.2 Hangs on Boot, /bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries
I have a Dell R310 server. Installed CentOS 6.2 (minimal) and it won't boot. It hangs at the following error.
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: /bin/sh: supported version 25416 of ...
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mysql won't autostart
I'm running ubuntu 10.04, since I upgraded to mysql 5.5 it stopped starting at bootime.
I tried sysv-rc-conf mysql on because it was actually set to "off" but still won't boot.
I have to manually run ...
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Message “Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation?” displayed in X before KDM
This has started to happen after I encrypted my home folder (this was done after the installation, not as a part of it)... This was in 11.10.
I have since upgraded to 12.04 and after first reboot ...
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Ubuntu/Debian Grub2 show stopper [closed]
I am trying to setup my own home server - headless. It is a Fit-PC2 machine (full tech specs here: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc/fit-pc2-specifications/ ) with 160GB HDD so it has limited BIOS ...
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No boot command on Cisco 3925
I had to downgrade a couple of Cisco 3925 routers last week and one of the steps in the instructions (link provided) was to change the boot command that was given by the following command:
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Timing issues with OpenVPN and NFS mounts (Debian Squeeze)
I'm trying to mount NFS filesystems over an OpenVPN link on Debian Squeeze. The problem is that the default layout of init scripts and such tries to mount the NFS filesystems before bringing up the ...
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HP Proliant ML115 G5 - Boot order lost after reboot
I have one HP Proliant ML 115 G5 (AMD) with the latest BIOS (07-06-2009) and recently I've installed an USB disk.
This is a common problem on old Proliant servers.
When you plug the USB disk, BIOS ...
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debian symlink existing daemon incrond to start at boot
I'm triying to start the incron daemon "incrond" at boot but doesn't work.
I have done :
ln -s /usr/sbin/incrond /etc/init.d/incrond
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/incrond
update-rc.d incrond enable
But no ...
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Bypassing system settings change dialog
I've written a batch file to detect the graphics card on first boot, silently install its drivers then force a reboot without the user seeing anything.
if exist firstboot.dat (
start /wait "" ...
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Fujitsu TX150 server doesn't boot from Windows 2008 R2 DVD
What we have:
We have a brand new Fujitsu Primergy TX150S7f server here and want to install Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard on it – downloaded from Microsoft. The image name is: ...
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What command is need to set the time on a Windows server when it boots?
I am running a Windows server on a VM and the time isn't accurate after it reboots.
Is there a command to set the time on a Windows 2008 via NTP when it boots?
It needs to run at boot time not at ...
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Can't boot Windows 7 after having installed Server 2003 [closed]
Hope you can help me with this, because I really need to get my Windows 7 running, as that is working platform (need it for my job).
Can't boot Windows 7 after having installed Server 2003
My default ...
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Ubuntu: How to set up an init script that only runs on the first boot?
I need to install an init script that only runs on the first boot after it's installation. How can I accomplish that on Ubuntu?
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can't update MYSQL startup settings in ubuntu
I updated to mysql 5.5 and noticed that the server wasn't starting anymore at boot but I had to do it manually.
It is actually not set to start at any level.
So I did
chkconfig -s mysql 2345
but ...
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How to rebuild boot archive on solaris 10/x86
After an emergency shutdown (the cooling system went down) one of our solaris 10/x86 hosts won't come up. While the failsafe mode works, booting the 'normal' mode fails: All I get is a black screen ...
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KVM Guests not booting
I have installed KVM on Ubuntu Oneiric Server 64 AMD.
uname -a
Linux myhostname 3.0.0-12-server #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 16:36:30 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I tried creating a guest ...
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Windows 7 Unable to Boot / Access Denied for User's Folder
Today, I accidentally swapped the hard drive on my computer while my company is in sleep mode then turn it on. After the computer restarts, I can't boot into Windows anymore. The problem is that it ...
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Make a bootable WinPE
My question is not exactly what the subject suggests..
I got a couple of files that I believe are WinPE files + a .WIM image..
Here is the folder tree:
The OS12.wim file is 5-GB in size.
Inside ...
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Postfix won't start at boot
I have a server with ubuntu 10.04 and i've installed postfix.
It works but when the server is restarted it doesn't start automatically.
I've tried with:
update-rc.d postfix defaults
But doesn't ...
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SAN booting Oracle VM from a UCS blade
We have an Oracle VM Cluster that we are provisioning on a Cisco UCS B series blade chassis. It has 2 fabric interconnects (FC0 and FC1) provisioned to the (3) Oracle VM service profiles and it is set ...
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Xen HVM: How to delay the boot process?
I need to give a user access to the console of a Xen HVM domain, for troubleshooting a boot problem. The problem is, the guest boots so fast, it is almost impossible to have the VNC session ready when ...
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mdadm warning after apt-get upgrade - can't boot RAID
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 precise. A recent apt-get upgrade ended successfully, but printed the following warning at the end:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-21-generic
W: mdadm: ...
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Workaround for starting zabbix agent on Ubuntu. update-rc.d LSB mismatch
I am trying to run the zabbix-agent (1.8.1) on boot on Ubuntu (lucid 10.04).
Zabbix is installed just fine, and it manually starts just fine with /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent start
However it doesn't ...
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Juniper J4350 out of order
I have got two (2) Juniper routers J4350 that are out of order :
All the interfaces are down (leds on the interfaces don't ligthen, ping dosen't respond)
No output on the console port (even when ...
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1answer
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Solaris + run my script after Solaris boot/reboot
I have a Solaris machine ( Solaris installed on Netra-T2000 HW , Solaris version – 5.10 )
I wrote the script called update_after_solaris_already_boot.ksh
This script should automatically update ...
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2answers
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CentOS: Init scripts failing to start for some unknown reason
I'm running CentOS 6.2 - I've just migrated some applications over to a failover server, and copied their init scripts into /etc/init.d.
I've made them executable, added them to chkconfig, with ...
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fstab mount after network initialization
I'm automatically mounting a NFS with fstab. Sometimes the mount fails because the hostname of the NFS mount cannot be resolved (getaddrinfo failed). I'm assuming that this happens because the network ...
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Linux Kernel and the init process
How does the linux kernel know the location of the /sbin/init program during the boot process? Is "/sbin/init" hard coded into the linux kernel source code?
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rc.local is not executed on bootup ubuntu
Im on Ubuntu 10.04.
I want to execute script on system boot. I added it to rc.local.
If I execute rc.local manually it works fine.
If I boot system in recovery mode(2nd string in boot menu) it ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 solusvm stopped booting services
I haven't rebooted my vps for 157 days, today I tried to do it and the vps booted with only 1.5MB of RAM used. Of course it was unreachable from the outside but I was able to login via SolusVM serial ...
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Boot Process In Virtual Machine
I was Learning About the Booting Process...i got the exact procedure for Single and Multiboot Systems which is MBR -> BIOS -> POST -> GRUB -> INIT.
I wanted to know what is the exact booting ...
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Run a bash script after EC2 instance boots
I have a script on an EC2 instance that remotely starts another instance.
Once this instance has fully loaded (finished booting) I want it to automatically run a bash script, what would be the best ...
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SELinux AVC denies at boot
My Gentoo box is running Gentoo Hardened/SELinux (32bit), I followed the Gentoo Hardened Guide to install it and the machine doesn't boot.
Here is an extract from dmesg:
Mar 12 19:15:04 ...
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Linux Server's network daemons won't boot on load
This happened a while ago, but I installed some software and it messed up my entire app-get command so I had to do all this manual deleting and stuff. Everything is fixed except now when I restart the ...
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Undo LVM on Fedora 13?
I had lost my boot partition.
This happened quite frequently.
I used to boot for recovery and rewrite the existing partioning.
Last time I missed the correct option and installed LVM by mistake.
Is it ...
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2answers
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Default CentOS Linux services won't start on boot
Using CentOS 5.7, none of the default services are starting on boot. What would cause this?
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Why does Windows in kiosk mode start the shell application so slowly?
I'm configuring Windows 7 Professional x64 to run a custom application as the shell, in "kiosk" mode. That is, replacing the default shell (explorer.exe) with my application and autologon as a ...
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2answers
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Best way to start a program at boot on Ubuntu Server
I have a server running Ubuntu Server 11.10 and I have some programs I want to start at boot time such as Nginx, my Unicorn workers etc.
In fact, I know how to start my programmes either by adding a ...
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1answer
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Server 2008 stuck in reboot loop “Configuring Updates: Stage 3 of 3”
Our server performed some updates last night and this morning we came in to find it stuck in a boot -> "Applying System Configurations" -> "Configuring Updates: Stage 3 of 3. 0%" -> reboot loop.
Safe ...
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2answers
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Dell PERC 4 (PowerEdge 2850): Unresolved configuration mismatch between disks(s) and NVRAM
We had an extended power outage (almost four hours); now I have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server which is giving me this error (from a PERC 4e/DI) on boot up:
All drives are listed in the PERC ...
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2answers
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Windows Unattended: Running a program from the OS boot drive and not “C:” drive
See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715408.aspx for FirstLogonCommand, how do I specify a CommandLine for the OS boot drive and not just use "C:" like the examples do. The OS boot drive ...
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Boot CD for ia64
I'm looking for rescue or live CDs for Itanium servers, but the only bootable CDs I've found are the distros installation CDs. Mainly I want to clone the servers disks, and also check memory or disk ...
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pciide.sys not found - drivermax issue
I have a weird issue. I turned on my laptop in the morning today and I was shocked to see a \system32\config\system not found message - The OS on it (WindowsXP) would not boot.
So, I read a few ...
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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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1answer
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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 ...
