Questions tagged [boot-manager]
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Cloned Windows 10 hangs in black screen with cursor
I cloned Windows 10 from a HDD Partiton into an SSD Partition. The SSD has 2 Partitions: one (1st) is Windows 7 (manually installed) and the other is the cloned Windows 10 from previous HDD. I created ...
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How to add Ubuntu on second Hard Drive to Windows Boot Manager?
I need to add Ubuntu on a second Hard Drive to the Windows Boot Manager, because BitLocker doesn't work with GRUB and the Boot Device Selection is secured by the UEFI password. I tried to copy the ...
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GRUB with higher resolutions - really slow
My monitor's native resolution is 4k. However, when I run GRUB in 4k (or even at something around 720p), it is extremely slow (about 1 second lag between keyboard events and reaction on the screen).
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Windows 7 won't boot after last update from January, 2020
I have Windows 7 and Linux Mint (19.3, Cinnamon), both 64-bit as a dual boot on my PC. Windows 7 is installed on my HDD and Linux Mint on my SSD.
Today I installed the latest update (from January ...
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Boot Windows from NVME via bootmanager on SATA SSD
I'd like to run Windows off my NVME SSD.
My mainboard has an EFI bios but does not support booting from NVME.
My current SATA disk has a GPT partition map and boots through EFI.
What I wonder is, ...
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Dual boot - 2 OS in 2 HDD in a laptop
I have a Sony VAIO laptop. I have installed Windows 10 on my HDD. And I have removed the CD drive and inserted another HDD (windows 10 installed) there using a caddy.
I am changing the boot order in ...
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Windows Boot Manager appears only randomly
I had Windows 10 on my laptop and I've installed Windows 7 on different partition.
At the beginning everything was fine, but after 3 weeks Windows Boot Loader started to not showing up, randomly.
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"Ghost" blank UEFI entry in Gigabyte BIOS
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I was trying to install macOS (Hackintosh) alongside Microsoft Windows 10 on my SSD, so I shrank the Windows partition using Disk Management and left an empty exFAT partition next to C: (...
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Laptop Won't boot directly to windows 10
Everytime I turned on my computer it leads me to a black screen with the message of "Reboot and select proper device boot". What I am doing in order to successfully lead the booting process to windows ...
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Broken boot manager bootmgr Windows 10 SSD bootrec
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My System:
Windows 10 Home Version 1703
OS build 15063.966
Trying to update to version 1803 (KB4340917)
The updates continually failed. I literally had the windows 10 upgrade ...
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Cannot boot dd'ed windows partition
Until yesterday, I was happy with my partition schema:
Device Boot mounted at
/dev/nvme0n1p1 * /boot/efi
/dev/nvme0n1p2 swap
/dev/nvme0n1p3 / ext4
/dev/...
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How can I boot into Windows 10 DVD from UEFI?
I have a laptop which has a weird boot issue (the issue is - hopefully - not relevant to this question; and I'll post a Q about it later; but in short, on boot, it goes into Windows Boot Menu with 4 ...
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Difference between bootmgr.efi and bootmgfw.efi?
I would love to know if is there any difference between the bootmgr.efi and bootmgfw.efi files?
Those files are located in the ESP partition in EFI/Microsoft/Boot.
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What are the implications of not installing a Linux boot loader and use UEFI instead?
Before UEFI, installing a boot loader was necessary to boot an OS, with the introduction of UEFI, many UEFI firmwares come with a decent boot manager and boot loader that allow the user to boot the OS ...
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Is it possible to run MS-DOS from bootmgr?
I successfully created a multibootable USB using WinSetupFromUSB, allowing me to boot into an ISO for MS-DOS 6.22 and installer ISOs for Windows 7 32- and 64-Bit from a single bootable USB. However, ...
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