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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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How to clone the OS disk and keep both disks plugged in?

Here's the situation: A Windows RAID 1 has partially failed. The broken disk was replaced with a new disk. The old two disks do not have Advanced Format (bigger sector size). The new replacement disk ...
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detecting whether GPUs are accessible before running nvidia-smi during boot to create dev files

In the past, I've successfully configured Ubuntu systems containing NVIDIA GPUs to launch nvidia-smi in the background from within /etc/rc.local during the system boot to create the requisite /dev/...
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tape changers on Centos 6 enter flurry of activity upon boot, at udev start

I have two tape-changer robots (Quantum Superloader 3), one with parallel SCSI connectivity, the other with SAS. They were connected to a Centos 5 server, and boot would proceed normally. They are ...
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Error 5 partition table invalid or corrupt

I'm trying to add a second SSD to a Centos 6 system. But I get the Error 5 partition table invalid or corrupt at boot. The system already has a single SSD (sdb) and a pair of HDDs (sd{a,c}) in a ...
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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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How to debug boot process?

After power outage my server (Ubuntu 16.04 ) wont boot, and I can't understand why it gives me "Give root password for maintenance" message. I did fsck the root partition and it is being mouted in ...
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Booting from firmware-based PCI RAID controller in SeaBIOS

I had a server running Windows 2003 that resided on a RAID5 array formed by Promise FastTrak SX4100, which I thought was hardware-based because of its dedicated processor and buffer memory and its ...
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Windows Server 2012 R2 sometimes fails to boot (or shut down?) - stuck at spinner

Our Windows Server 2012 R2 VMware virtual machines have scheduled tasks defined to reboot them weekly using shutdown.exe /r and some of these servers fail to restart some of the time. When I connect ...
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solaris requested cylinder is beyond range of BIOS geometry

Title says it all. I'm a Windows guy, and a bit out of my element here, but a client has an old Solaris machine hosting a Database. The machine turned off for a yet as unknown reason (probably power ...
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Upgrading CentOS from 6 to 7 has broken my boot sequence

I ran the upgrade assistant provided by CentOS for upgrading from CentOS 6 to 7. The upgrade appeared to have been a success, however my system now hangs when trying to boot up. (Keep in mind I have ...
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How to remove the pause during JBoss 5.1.0 GA boot between ProfileServiceBootstrap and AnnotationCreator?

I've managed to strip down my JBoss profile enough that it boots in 1.5 minutes. I started with the web profile and started pulling out stuff I didn't need. The bulk of my boot time can be seen here: ...
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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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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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Modprobe error at boot

I'm using LMDE4 with LVM on LUKS and recently I've been getting these cryptic error messages at boot: modprobe: module aes-i586 not found in modules.dep Volume group "lvmlmde" not found ...
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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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Is it safe to have multiple clients share a NFS root on a pxe booted Linux

I have boot server that serves with PXE boot and rootdisk via NFS, the image will mount /run /var/log and /tmp as tmpfs and root / is mounted via NFS from the boot server. Is it safe if I have ...
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Two separate drive setup and getting cannot import 'xxxxx': no such pool exists

I have a simple freeNAS setup (FreeNAS-9.10.2-U6 (561f0d7a1)) that accesses two independent drives, no mirroring. Have not really accessed the system in a while and after a power loss I needed to ...
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Replacing hard drive that has partitions in both RAID 1 and RAID 0, and also contains /boot/ partition

I have inherited a system (Fedora 26) with the following setup: software RAID 1 (md127) between two disks (sda2 and sdb4 for lvm holding fedora-root and fedora-home). Additionally there's a RAID 0 (...
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NVDIMM DAX boot

I'm trying to find more definitive information, but are there documented examples of an OS booting from real NVDIMM (single or multiple), possibly with a DAX filesystem? I understand that NVDIMM's ...
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booting halts due to new disks being connected

I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard with the latest BIOS flashed in (version F13). I also have 4x sata disks (in proven working condition) from a different server. Two of them are Western ...
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How to ignore ttyS0 in GRUB

I've got some systems that have serial devices attached; when these systems boot, the serial device may be sending data, so GRUB sees this, assumes it's a request to manage the boot process, and sits ...
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Start xend service automatically on boot fails

I am trying to auto-start xend and xendomain service automatically on boot as soon as I log into XEN-dom0 (on Ubuntu server 12.04 x64) so that whey i type : sudo xm list the hypervisor lists me all ...
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How to recover an Intel RAID 0 on a Rocks cluster distribution

We had a Rocks 5.5 distribution on our cluster and wanted to upgrade to 6.2. The "/export" partition was mounted on a Intel software RAID 0 array of 2 identical hard drives (HD) (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc)...
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Ubuntu on EC2 boot error after dist upgrade to 14.04: disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present

I just upgraded my Ubuntu 11.10 EC2 instance to 12.04, then to 12.10 and finally to 14.04 using the do-release-upgrade command each time. I arrived at 14.04 and the instance will not boot now, it ...
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How do I make certain images available when user selects certain boot image? [WDS]

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Installation that is used for everything under the sun including Network installation services. I would like to have the server offer certain images based upon the ...
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How to boot from CD rom in a Sunfire v250 server

I have a Sunfire v250 server that currenlty has Debian installed, I need to make a fresh Debian install with the newest stable version, but I cannot make it boot from the Debian CD. The servers ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 black screen with cursor at boot

I have a strange issue with a RDS Session broker running Windows 2008R2 SP1. I have a range of windows updates waiting to download/install: KB4019263 KB4022722 KB4025337 KB4034679 KB4041083 KB4038779 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Converting sgdisk to sfdisk for old machine with MBR

I want to put ZFS on an old machine, however it apparently fails to boot with GPT. So I wanted to convert this script, mainly these 3 lines to sfdisk, which uses MBR. https://github.com/terem42/zfs-...
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Booting old server with GPT disk

I have an old HP proliant server with regular BIOS. I'm planning to replace the 1TB system disk with a 4TB in it since the old DOS based partition table only supports 2TB I planning to put GPT and ...
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Commands hangs on logical volume

I'm using virtual machine with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. After one of the critical shutdowns of the server, the disk id have changed. I have changed and replaced the values with new ones in the ...
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Ubuntu on dl380p gen8 won't boot from SD Card after few restarts and powering off

I have two HP Proliant dl380p gen8 servers with full array (25 disks). I did install SD Card into the internal slot on motherboard. Changed USB setup in bios to Internal SD card first. After ...
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Viewing boot in serial Console on GCP Compute Engine

I am diagnosing a boot process of a custom image on GCP Compute Engine. I am trying to figure out how I can view the boot from the serial console or anywhere else. This is all I see on the serial ...
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How to boot ZFS root filesystem after setting dnodesize = auto (making grub unable to read the disks)

I have a proxmox (v5.4 I think) installation on top of ZFS in a server with 6 disks. There are 2 pools: rpool in a mirror of two SSDs that has the proxmox root filesystem and some containers and zvols....
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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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'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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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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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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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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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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Supermicro Motherboard won't boot, onboard power LED lights up

I'm having issues getting a Supermicro motherboard to boot. When I switch the PSU on, the Onboard Standby Power LED lights up on the motherboard. Pushing the power switch then has no effect. No beeps, ...
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