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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Unable to switch os in dual booting [closed]
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How do I stop snaps mounting during boot on Ubuntu 18.04?
Booting my very capable PC has become a fingers-on-chalkboard-grating slow nightmare because of snap. It's gone from 5-10 seconds to login screen after GRUB to now 30-45 seconds, sometimes up to a ...
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Supermicro stuck on boot
I have a server with X10DRL-i running dual Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 and everything works great.
Today I tried to swap both CPUs for Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 but server is unable to boot - it is stuck on &...
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Google Cloud Instance Crashed - Same Attached Disk Crashes another instance when attached as secondary (unmounted)
I have a GCP instance that is micro, and I suspect it ran out of memory,
It crashed and does not let me SSH into it, even through the web console on GCP.
I create a new bootable instance and enter it ...
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Post kernel update: Only OVH's rescue kernel works - but why doesn't mine?
I just went through upgrading from Debian 9 to Debian 10 and I am having a weird issue. Probably not too weird to people that do more intensive sysadmin things, which is why I bring it here:
During ...
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Where is the System maintenance switch on HP ProLiant dl360 Gen 7
I can not understand which is a possible switch, I could not even see pins. Please let me know if I am missing anything.
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System not booting up on replacing cmoss battery [closed]
I have HP ProLiant dl360 Gen 7 server, after I replaced cmoss battery I am seeing blue screen. Please let me know if anything needs to be done on replacing the cmoss battery.
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Booting from CD-ROM image with HP server in UEFI mode
I have a ProLiant BL460c Gen9 server, on which I want to install my OS with UEFI mode.
After I changed the boot mode to UEFI and disabled secure-boot and tried to boot my Centos7 Image from CD-ROM ...
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zfs is mounted after mongod starts: how do I set the boot order?
Fairly simple problem, I think, but I can't seem to get my head around a fix.
I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.3 and mounting zfs volumes with mongo-data at boot correctly with the config below in /etc/systemd/...
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PCIe - Training error on device - Link degraded, macLinkWidth = x16, negotiatedLinkWidth = x8
i've placed a pcie raid adapter card with onboard ssd's (AORUS RAID ADAPTOR built in with 4 x PCIe 3.0 512GB NVMe SSD) in a new (2020) Dell (Optiplex 7080).
the system boots fine most times, but it ...
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Oracle Linux server boot failure
I have an Oracle Linux 6.9 server which crashed and now it is failing to boot with the following error.
Boot Failed - Hard Disk 0: Fv (CDxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx) / FvFiles(1Fxxxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxxx-9-xxxx)...
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'quiet splash' breaks default Ubuntu 20.04 boot on Server version, not on Desktop
I'm aware that the internet is packed with 'quiet splash' kernel config issues regarding the boot process on several hardware sets, which generally leads to graphics issues that can be prevented with '...
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Google cloud instance won't boot
I noticed one of my google cloud computers stopped connecting to ssh, and when I looked at the serial log, it seems like its not booting up at all. I use the machine for rendering, so I thought maybe ...
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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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Ubuntu 18.04 Live squash boot with PXE on multiple machines
I have set up a WDS PXE server that is able to install Windows and Linux operating systems in may different ways.
The server is also able to live boot Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop squash files (official & ...
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Can a tablet device be used as a console to monitor the boot process of a CentOS/RedHat server?
Can a tablet device (e.g., Fire HD 8 tablet) be used as a console, to monitor the boot process of a CentOS/RedHat server?
For instance, is it possible to connect a BlueTooth adapter to the tablet's ...
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Install Linux on a second disk from an already running Linux (RHEL 7.8) instance
I am trying to mount a second disk on a running Linux (RHEL 7.8) AWS instance, install a customized bootable Linux environment to it, and then change that disk to an AMI so we can boot new Linux ...
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Centos 7 server does not boot X64 Exception Type - 0D(#GP - General Protection) [duplicate]
I ran a yum update on a Centos 7 server that previously worked well, then tried to restart it with the command reboot.
The server is a google cloud compute instance.
It would not come up.
The output ...
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Are there any issues with a large boot partition?
What is the recommended size for a Linux /boot partition? says the recommended size for a boot partition is about 300-500MB, which is congruent with my experience (running out of space with < ...
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how to convert acronis .tibx new format to .tib old format
Create an OS image in acronis 2020 with the new .tibx format. The problem is that this image cannot be dumped to an old computer since it does not support Acronis 2020 nor can I use old versions of ...
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CentOS 8 network on boot
I'm running CentOS 8, every time I reboot the network does not start until I log in to the system.
I've checked the NetworkManager and the autoconnect is set to yes.
connection.autoconnect: ...
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Secure Diskless System - NFS as root
I've created a diskless Debian installation with root filesystem over NFS, and boot loader on a USB (this computer has issues booting from PXE for some reason). My setup is similar to the one ...
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Supermicro server hangs on boot with disks in HBA
I have a "homemade" Supermicro server with an X9D board in an 836 chassis that has two SSDs with freenas installed. It has a pass-through backplane, with 4 SATA HDDs running via the Intel C606 ...
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How to modify a VM instance setting to boot from BIOS to UEFI?
I shrank my boot hard disk size on my Google Cloud Compute VM. Something which switched the boot method of the OS installed on it from legacy to UEFI along with the disk boot settings (which triggers ...
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Boot issue on clean Ubuntu Server 20.04 system
I have recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a hdd in my 2009 Mac pro 4,1 (flashed to 5,1). I've wiped and reinstalled 3 times at this point. All three times, The installation goes without a hitch but ...
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HP Proliant DL20 Gen9 not detect hdd boot after CentOS fresh install
I am a newbie in server world. My boss bought me an HP Proliant DL20 Gen9 server.
I am trying to install CentOS 8 on it.
Case :
I turned on the server and wait until initialization finished, then I ...
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HPE DL580 G8 not booting from internal Drive
We have several HPE Proliant DL580 G8 servers which give us a huge headache. They are second hand and thus have no warranty/support and don't know what they we're used for.
We've updated the server ...
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How to boot vhdx drives?
I recovered a bare metal backup for one hyper-v vm (2012 R2) in the form of 2 vhdx files.
How can I boot the backed up vm?
Should I burn into a USB/DVD or can I just use an unallocated drive space?
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can't boot up after changed vm machine type from n1-standard-1 to n2-standard-2
my vm can't boot up after i changed vm machine type from n1-standard-1 to n2-standard-2, why? how can i do? Will i lose all my data? Anyone help me? please!
---serial port 1 log
[ 1.689313] List ...
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can't boot to ubuntu because of 100% disk & infinite service restart
i have a ubuntu server that has system service, the system service are won't run (and always restarted) because of the disk usage are 100% (no space left on disk), is there any way to login into ...
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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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Booting a SuperMicro from virtual iSCSI CD-ROM
I correctly set up the iSCSI server with SCST, I can login to the target via iscsiadm and mount the iSCSI resource, a CDROM based on ISO image exposed as LUN 0.
When I try to boot a SuperMicro X10DRi-...
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Fedora Boot UEFI SLOW
After a fresh install of Fedora 31, the boot time is incredibily slow.
I suspect something went wrong with the boot partitions.
Here is the layout
[root@linux Scaricati]# efibootmgr
EFI variables ...
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Extend Boot and EFI Partitions CentOS 7
I got a new dedicated server which have 500GB SSD holding the operating system and the other HDDs have the data. By default the /boot partition is considered small I wanna extend it same applies to ...
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Boot from other root partition to shrink original root filesystem on LVM
How can I change the root partition for Debian 10 to boot from?
I'd like to decrease the size of my root filesystem that sits on an LVM logical volume from remote, that is over SSH only and without ...
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/boot df -h and ls -lh do not match
Redhat Centos7
I've tried searching the internet for far too long to find a solution. my /boot partition has an issue.
I can't find what's taking up space.
this is my df -h
it shows -boot taking ...
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CentOS can't boot because of iSCSIconnection not established
I have a CentOS 6.5 with a iSCSI disk connected.
This disk is mounted as partition.
Everything is working fine but after I tried to reboot, the system won't boot.
It can't mount the partition /dev/...
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dmraid/LVM Boot Issues After Upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04
I am experiencing an issue with dmraid/LVM after upgrading one Ubuntu 16.04 machine to 18.04. The root file system of this machine is located on a LVM LV on a RAID 1 consisting of two disks realized ...
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Make bootable Linux copy
I have specific Linux installed on SSD drive. What I want to do is to copy all ext4 partition files to other drive (also ext4) and make it bootable. Copy should be as similar as possible ...
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No screen messages from BIOS after discrete graphics card installation [closed]
My old PC used to work fine with onboard graphics, but eventually (I think) that was slowing down the whole system. So I decided to add a discrete graphics board - after that I don't see any output ...
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How to start a daemon at boot time after all other services are ready
I have developed a daemon in Linux. It works correctly, however, when I set that script to be started at boot time, it has conflict with other service, so I need to start it after all services have ...
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Dell Optiplex 990 Bios Corrupted [closed]
I have an issue with dell optiplex 990, i am getting no bootable hard disk found error.
Videos as below
https://photos.app.goo.gl/6TocW3sAoM7RL8gV9
Problem: I tried to boot into USB drive which has ...
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Booting an older kernel in Xen DomU when using pvgrub in Dom0
I'm having issues with the lastest kernel update in a Debian Jessie DomU, and want to boot it using a previous kernel.
Dom0 is also running Debian Jessie, and is booting the DomU via PvGrub. I'm ...
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Exception during the UEFI preboot environment. DellFormsProcessorDxe.efi
While booting a Dell PowerEdge r720, UEFI crashes, making it mostly unbootable. This exception occurs after pressing F2 to get to "F2 System Setup" which means getting to the menu to switch back to ...
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VM with Windows Server won't boot after restoring from ghettoVCB backup
I'm using popular the ghettoVCB.sh script to backup my virtual server, but I have a problem with restoring virtual machines running Windows Server 2012 (VM with all flavor of Linux OS do not suffer ...
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(Some) programs wont start at boot unless I login first
I have a Debian server that I upgraded to version 10, and since then a few programs I have wont boot unless I login first (locally, via Digital Ocean console).
Scenario is this:
I reboot the server.
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Boot stuck at "A start job is running for Create Volatile Files and Directories"
I think something generated millions of files or folders in my /tmp on Ubuntu 18.04, as I'm unable to run ls /tmp or even rm -rf /tmp/*. So I tried rebooting, but now my machine's stuck at the step:
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Recover harddrive after abruptly power cut [closed]
Following is my partition table,
mercurial@providence:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 465.78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: ST9500420AS
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 ...
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ACPI Error: AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0x000000006) is beyond end of object (length 0x6) (20181213/exoparg2-396)
I'm strugglin to install any linux distro in a new Samsung Odyssey machine (NP800G5H-XT2BR) with success.
After installation of any distro (ubuntu, fedora, debian), the computer:
Freezes on Login ...
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How can I get kernel / early boot output over my NVIDIA GPU using CentOS 7?
I recently installed CentOS 7.7 with KDE on a machine with both onboard graphics and an NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti. I got the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installed, but it was quite difficult as I couldn't see ...