Questions tagged [boot]
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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How to install Debian 12 on OCI Bare Metal Instance?
I want to install Debian 12 on my OCI Bare Metal Instance. I succeeded in VM, but it didn't work on BM Instance.
I tried OCI Custom Images, Netboot.xyz. The BM Instance couldn't boot with OCI Custom ...
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How would I completely reset network to after-fresh-installation status from Debian installer ISO?
I need to completely reset my Debian VM's network side settings and configuration back to the state of a fresh installation. How can I do that with a Debian installer ISO? I was able to boot into ...
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home logical volume is not available after reboot
On a server with RHEL 7.2 it gets to emergency mode when rebooting. Looking a bit I found out that what happens is that the /home partition was missing and the reason was LVM:
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INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE on Hyper-V 2012 R2 virtual machines
I have a Hyper-V 2012 R2 cluster, 4 Dell PowerEdge R620 servers connected to a Dell PowerVault MD3600F storage array by means of FC connections; it's all pretty straightforward, all servers run ...
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IBM x3650 will not boot from USB
Hello serverfault community, and thank you in advance for your time.
Summary: I have an IBM x3650, which I bought secondhand (eBay). I am trying to install and run VMWare ESXi 5.5 on it via a USB ...
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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.
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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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Network booting from PXE
I need to use a network boot server. However, the DHCP Server is pointing to the wrong boot image filename and server. I can't change the DHCP Server itself, since that is controlled by another ...
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centos7: boot error dracut-initqueue after converting virtual disk
I installed centos7 on Ubuntu 16.04 KVM with qcow2 disk format.
To deploy my centos machine I need it in vhdx disk format to support Microsoft's Hyper-V. I used qemu-image to convert it from qcow2 ...
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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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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 128 MB /boot ...
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How to list services/daemons started at boot _and_ check their loading order
I want to be sure in what order services are started during boot process in Debian based systems (Debian Squeeze in particular).
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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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Ubuntu - dhcp server 'not configured to listen on any interfaces'
I'm at my wits end on this one; I have tried for hours to get this to work, but I'm stumped. Hope one of you can help. :-)
I'm trying to get dhcp3-server to work on Ubuntu. It's installed, and ...
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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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Cant make VmWare ESXI bootable
I am trying to boot Vmware ESXI on my dell PowerEdge 2950. But I can't seem to find an iso that works. when I use etcher I get missing partition table. Please help me
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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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"Failed to start Raise network interfaces" for bridge br0 even though br0 exists
I have setup two bridge devices on Debian 9.6 box and systemctl status networking.service claims that bridge br1 was not set up, even though after booting it's actually just fine:
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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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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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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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QNAP TS-228 u-boot firmware
I am looking for somebody with a functioning QNAP TS-228 (32 bit; non-a version).
I had a firmware upgrade gone bad and the firmware got corrupted. I have a usb ttl so I managed to connect to serial ...
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After changing a system disk partition, system won't boot, goes into "Dracut Emergency Shell"; how do I get it to boot?
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I had a new system that I'd spent a lot of time configuring the software on to perform all manner of services and then discovered the drive was potentially flaky. So I decided to replace ...
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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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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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HP ProLiant DL180 G6 refuses to boot
My HP ProLiant DL180 G6 died on me during the night. Sadly during an raid-5 to raid-6 rebuild so my data may or may not be lost. That's next but first, the server won't boot.
Problem details:
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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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Windows 10 drive cloned from Clonezilla image will not boot
As a test for using Clonezilla with Windows 10, I built a Windows 10 machine, and booted to the Clonezilla Live-CD to create an image across the network on our file server.
I cloned the entire drive,...
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Automatically mount bucket with s3fs on boot
I use an Amazon S3 bucket to deliver some of my server's content.
I was able to mount it successfully, and grant Apache rights over it, but can't get it mounted properly at reboot.
I updated my /etc/...
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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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How to avoid "NBP is too big to fit into free base memory" after searching for boot device repeatedly?
I have some servers which can repeatedly retry searching for boot devices (local sata disk, usb stick, netboot) at startup until one is available.
I have a netboot setup with iPXE as well. By default ...
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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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Repair GRUB bootloader
I had Xubuntu installed on my laptop on hard disk drive /dev/sda on partition /dev/sda1.
Something bad happened and when I restarted my laptop, a black screen appeared with
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