Questions tagged [boot]
Use this tag if you have trouble booting Ubuntu or you have questions about the bootup process.
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How to Boot from iRAM Solid State Drive on Ubuntu
I've got an iRAM solid state drive.
I'd like to use this to store a root filesystem; the trouble is the device is not recognized as a hard drive to the BIOS. It only shows up if a live CD ...
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Optimize bootup sequence
I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 (upgraded from 10.10) and suffering really high bootup times. It got so annoying, that I decided to dive into bootchart analysis myself. Therefore I installed bootchart and ...
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How do I determine problems with bootup based on this bootchart?
So I've been having issues with lots of hard-drive usage during bootup and long bootup lately, and I installed bootchart to get these two bootcharts, but damn are there a lot of unfamiliar system ...
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Triple boot Windows XP, Ubuntu, & Mac on Acer z5g notebook
I'm planning to install Mac OS X using these instructions
http://basshead.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/snow-leopard-on-acer-aspire-one-aoa150zg5/
on my Acer z5g notebook
I have Windows XP & Ubuntu ...
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How To Get Plymouth To Display Boot Messages When Booting?
I would like to know how to create a splash for Ubuntu Maverick with boot messages being displayed when I boot as well as a progress bar and a spinning logo.
Or, if possible, how to edit a splash ...
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Error "fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed"
I am trying to install Ubuntu for the first time.
Version = 11.04 Hardware = Acer Travelmate 4050
I can boot from USB or CD and it loads fine.
I have installed and reinstalled several times from ...
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How can I refresh/reinstall/clear/set-to-default my bootup process?
I'm currently having a problem with my bootup process that is growing progressively worse as time goes on:
While booting, it does a few minutes of hard-drive reading. During that, instead of showing ...
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Switch from encrypted partition to unencrypted (Error: cryptsetup: evms_activate is not available)
I initially installed Ubuntu 11.04 with an encrypted file system (from the alternate install CD: Guided Partitioning, LVM encrypted). Now I wanted to change this setup to have my root file system on ...
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No longer able to boot stuck in busybox shell
I've installed win 7 and ubuntu 11.04. After a storm killed the power. I'm unable to boot.
I'm stuck in the busybox shell (ash).
Here's what happens when I boot:
Bios loads
Grub displays option to ...
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LiveCD not booting/can't install
So, I got a new laptop some days ago, and as usual I formatted it to install Ubuntu. I downloaded 11.04 and burned it on my pendrive using my old laptop (running 11.04).
When I tried to boot from the ...
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My laptop doesn't always boot to login
I have an recurring problem. Every once in a while, no pattern, the laptop freezes during boot. Sometimes at a black screen, sometimes a black screen with a not blinking cursor...
The solution is to ...
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livecd won't boot 11.04
I bought a brand new computer yesterday (Toshiba Satellite Pro L770-10T : Intel Core i5 2410M, 2,3 GHz, 4096 Mo RAM, nVidia GeForce GT 525M) that simply won't boot any livecd I tried.
I am using ...
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How do I prevent KDM from starting at boot?
I would like to stop kdm from starting when my computer boots up. Is there a way to do that? kdm is my only graphical login program, I do not use gdm or xdm.
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How can I regenerate the System V symbolic links?
I accidentally deleted all of the symlinks in /etc/rc1.d/. How can I regenerate them?
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Boots to a black screen when a Microsoft Wirless Mobile Mouse 3500 is plugged in [closed]
If I boot Ubuntu 11.04 and I have a Microsoft Wirless Mobile Mouse 3500 plugged in, nothing happens after I reach the grub screen and select Ubuntu for booting (I get the grub screen at boot since I'm ...
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