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Boot USB Tails through VirtualBox?
So I have Tails 1.2 on my USB (Disk 5) and also on a partition (2) on an external hard drive (Disk 4). The USB shows up as 3.75GB and the partition is 6GB. I want to be able to boot either Disk 4 or ...
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Unable to get Linux Live installation media to properly boot from USB on 2006 iMac
I'm trying to dual boot linux on a 2006 iMac. I have tried Arch, Ubuntu, and Fedora.
I originally created the Arch USB installation media following the instructions in the Arch Beginner's Guide. ...
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How to boot from USB and copy files to USB?
My Windows 7 installation is broken. It won't boot and when I run the installation from bootable USB, it gets stuck right at the beginning saying "Loading something something (can't remember what)", ...
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How to create bootable USB in Linux without root access?
My laptop HD died (continuously getting grub-rescue screen with attempt to read or write outside hd0 error), now I dont have a bootable CD/USB and all PCs at my workplace have non-root access (so ...
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Problems formatting USB stick to be bootable (with PeToUSB and Linux)
I'm trying to make a USB stick installation disk for Windows XP. I've done this several times before (using this method), but now it's failing, and I don't know why.
The only thing that's going wrong ...
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How to to boot Linux from external USB SSD drive, attached to Windows 7 machine?
Is there way to boot Linux from external USB SSD drive, attached to Windows 7 machine?(without altering or modification the Windows Boot Configuration Data(BCD)) The same way as boot with bootable ...
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Is a hybrid Linux USB-Stick for UEFI & legacy BIOS possible?
my idea is to create an USB-Boot-Stick with Lubuntu that is able to boot on an older BIOS Laptop and an newer UEFI Systems.
This would be quite easy, when the Stick would be setup as a legacy boot ...
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Hardrive test using Gsmartcontrol
Few weeks ago, my laptop hanged all of a sudden while transferring files from an external harddisk. After i restarted, there was a black screen which showed insert boot device. I checked the boot ...
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Can't boot from USB
A few days ago, I installed Arch Linux alongside Windows 8 on a new Dell laptop. I did so by booting from a USB drive, and there were no problems with the install. I'm now trying to install CrunchBang ...
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Alternative to USB and DVD ROM Boot
I'm trying to install Kali Linux to my old (and empty HDD) Q6600. However I'm facing issues with booting it via USB, all I see is black screen with cursor. (The bootable USB was created with ...
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How to boot Linux from USB drive once only for recovery
I have installed a USB drive on an HP Linux server. The USB drive is bootable and contains valid OS backups that I can restore the system from. I can update the backup easily at any time.
I now have ...
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Changing boot order/booting from USB
I have the kali-linux-1.0.6-amd64 downloaded on my desktop and have used "Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.2" to install this on my Usb. With it completed and the Usb plugged into my computer. I then ...
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Booting livecd from external USB not working (no power?)
I have a usb hard drive with ubuntu 12.10 partition on it, but I can't seem to actually boot into the livecd.
I can get to the grub menu, and I select "Try without installing", but then the screen ...
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Make a bootable usb drive a regular storage drive again in Windows?
I made a bootable linux drive using Win32 Disk Imager. The image I wrote on the usb drive was about 4-5 GB. When I stuck the drive in to re-use it as storage, the only part of the drive that is left ...
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Kernel panic while installing Centos 6.5 from USB stick and USB cd rom
I tried to install CentosOS 6.5 using CentOS-6.5-x86_64-LiveCD as a source. I made bootable USB using YUMI (later LinuxLive USB creator) and booted but got the following error:
i915 0000:00:02.0: ...
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