Questions tagged [bootloader]
A bootloader is a program that loads and launches a program or an operating system from boot.
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Is the Windows 10 boot loader in system reserved partition the same as the one in the EFI partition?
If Windows 10 is installed on an MBR HDD, the installer creates a system reserved partition to store the boot loader. If Windows 10 is installed on a GPT HDD, the installer creates an EFI partition to ...
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How to recover which partition is the Windows 10 EFI bootloader is looking for?
In order to install Linux alongside Windows 10, I've done the following procedure:
Boot into Windows 10 (on a NVMe SSD, UEFI mode), "Shrink volume" to a smaller size
Reboot into a Linux ...
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Can an EFI boot table entry override the timeout for GRUB?
It is possible for an entry in the EFI boot table to pass arguments to the stub that it loads. For example, this is commonly used to identify the system root when using the EFI-stub of a Linux Kernel.
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Windows 11 & 11 Dual Boot - Show which OS to boot into on startup?
I recently moved an M.2 drive from my second PC to my primary PC. My primary PC already has a Windows 11 installation and so does the newly installed M.2. I would like to keep both installs and boot ...
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Mini PC bootloader control using a laptop
I just bought an used Beelink BT3 mini pc. I've started the Windows factory reset process using the mouse only. After reboot from the PC, it is now in the bootloader part and I'm asked if I want to ...
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Bootloader with RDP support?
Situation: I got 2 operating systems that I actively use (Windows and Linux).
The problem: I am unable to switch between each other remotely.
Is there any solution to be able to remotely boot to ...
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What is the difference about BIOS, UEFI, Bootloader, Uboot and GRUB?
I want to better understand a few things.
What is the difference about BIOS and UEFI?
In PC, there is BIOS and Bootloader (such as GRUB).
But why is there no BIOS in the embedded system (most often ...
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Can Windows 7 bootloader recognize WIndows 11?
I want to dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 11 on my laptop. My laptop is currently running Windows 11. Reinstalling Windows 11 is not an option because I have all my files on it.
So I need to know if ...
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Veracrypt somehow really messed up the bootloader on my PC
So basically I wanted to install windows on a secondary physical drive in my PC so I could have a second bare metal OS for testing stuff. I have 1 M.2 SSD that has my main windows installation ...
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Boot Windows 10 from RAID0
I had a Windows 10 machine with Auros Z390 Pro mainbard, SATA SSD system disk and RAID0 with two M2 disks and successfully installed seconds clean Windows 10 on the RAID.
Now when I start my machine I ...
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Why is my Windows drive appearing as encrypted in Linux (Ubuntu)?
Why is my Windows 11 installation drive shown as encrypted in Linux GUI when we want to simply mount the drive, when there are following points to note?
BitLocker is disabled
Data encryption is not ...
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Is there software to boot BIOS-related ISOs on UEFI-only systems?
I've not enough reputation points to comment on this (outdated) question and it has no answers, I am aware of that one existing: Bootloaders - Booting an MBR only OS using a UEFI only BIOS
After 8 ...
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grub-mkconfig doesn't populate /etc/grub.d/10_linux menu entries (Void Linux)
I have been writing a script to install Void Linux (I need something more granular that void-installer). I am able to install grub without issue on UEFI but the BIOS install doesn't work.
I do grub-...
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What could be the cause of excessive idle times (2 minutes) during Windows 10 boot?
My PC boots for 2 minutes (from push of button, until at WinLogin) and I have no clue why.
What have I already done:
Disabled all non-Microsoft services in msconfig
Booted Into Safe Mode (issue not ...
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Python APP OS error: failure reading sector 0x10e6c8 from hd0
This is a Verifone Ruby2 POS. I have an Ubuntu boot flashdrive and another Ruby2 (main register).
My question is can I repair/recover the hd0 (which is 2GB solid-state SATA Flash)?
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