Questions tagged [boot]
The process and events beginning with power being supplied to the processor and ending with the operating system fully loaded and ready for use. Questions about specific parts of the boot process should be tagged with, e.g. [bios].
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Can't enable reagentc whatever I do
While trying to enable secure boot in order to upgrade my PC to Windows 11, I used the mbr2gpt tool to convert my disk to gpt, since without doing this, upon enabling secure boot my PC would boot ...
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Could I make changes to a bootable Ubuntu ISO by booting into it, making changes within the OS, and re-exporting the ISO?
Suppose I have a bootable Ubuntu ISO. I would like to make several changes to the image at the OS level. The changes I want to make include changing the default user password, as well as a few other ...
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Laptop boot manager
My laptop keeps going into boot manager with no options whatsoever.
I downloaded Windows ISO onto the USB stick using Rufus but when I plugin USB to laptop it still shows the same screen:
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HDD is selectable but not loaded in the boot menu
Situation is as follows. Having another person's laptop for repair, and trying to turn it on, I see the logo, but after that a boot menu is seen with three points. First is the HDD, second and third ...
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Windows 10 Slow Boot, require help to check Windows Performance Analyzer Logs
I have a computer that has been really slow in the boot phase.The computer has an SSD and once entered into the system it is fast and has no problems, but starting up takes more than 10 minutes every ...
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Cannot access bios nor any boot or OS - BOOTMGR is compressed
Whenever I start my computer, I see the MSI logo without the usual shortcuts to access the Boot menu, BIOS, or Setup. Then I get the following message:
BOOTMGR is compressed
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to ...
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Why does my computer only start up the second time and after I power it off and then power on?
I have two OS (Linux and Windows) without dual boot. Recently, my computer started not to run after switch it on. But it runs if I power it off, wait for the capacitors to discharge and then power it ...
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press F1 to boot after restart (920-fan command 2 pin connector from power supply not connected)
setup: old HP d530 SFF(DK907A) Pentium4, running Fedora 8, power supply 500W HPQ-500BR-H12S, HP P6B580 motherboard (I will attach some photos as well)
problem: I have to press F1 to boot after PC ...
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How to programmatically reboot into Windows 8+'s Advanced Startup Menu?
Although I am able to visit the Boot Manager at boot due to me having multiple Windows boot entries and a significant timeout enabled for the environment when booting:
...I would like to not have to ...
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Deleted my EFI & MSR partitions by error, how to rebuild it?
I accidentally deleted every single partition of my computer except the one that Windows is installed on it. I thought it was a good idea. But it was not.
I have no more MSR or EFI partition, so when ...
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Hello world! My query may be a repeat but..... reputation points dont build themselves? VM + Windows 10 [closed]
So im running win 10 home and have an i7 8700k, of course with virtualization on.....
My question is this.... Is there a way to boot into a virtual machine ive set up? i already have dual boot with an ...
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Windows 10 is stuck in safe mode and I'm unable to log in
What happened
I was experiencing a graphical issue after updating my AMD GPU drivers. I was in the process of rolling back to a previous version of the drivers when I ran AMD's cleanup utility. That ...
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2 EFI on system, which one to remove and how?
I installed Pop OS on my system and on it I created my virtual Mac system Hackintosh.
But I wanted to completely get rid of the Linux Pop OS which I did.
Yet I can see 2 EFI files in my disk ...
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Random Blue Screens and Missing Boot Manager - SSD Health is Fine
I've been experiencing random blue screen errors with different stop codes each time. After these crashes, when I enter the BIOS, my drive with the Windows Boot Manager is missing. However, I've ...
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Window installation error with linux boot drive
I can't install Windows 11 on my SSD with a GPT partition. I've tried using both Ventoy and Rufus, with and without secure boot, but nothing seems to work. It keeps showing the error:
Windows could ...
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