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Reboot and select proper boot device SSD error EVERY TIME SSD is disconnected
While I have figured out how to do this on a one-time basis, the issue happened again. So the question remains - why, whenever I unplug the SSD from the SATA port on the AAEON EMB-BT1 itx board, does ...
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Deleted EFI system partition
Deleted my EFI system partition by accident. Dual boot system with Linux Mint and Windows, but I wanted to remove windows. After deleting the windows partition I meant to delete the windows boot ...
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install & configure grub within debootstrap chroot
i have a big knowledge gap in bootloading, thats why i'm actually practicing learning by doing. I have a dedicated test server and try to install linux over hetzner rescue with debootstrap. (Writing ...
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My Grub2 is perfect, except I can't update it other than manually (editing grub.cfg). How do I clean this up?
I'm running openSUSE Tumbleweed on an Acer laptop. Please feel free to ask for any hardware / software details that may be important in the comments.
My problem is:
> sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/...
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Basic openSUSE Grub entry for Fedora on another disk
I have 2 hard disks, one SSD (/dev/nvme0n1) and one HDD (/dev/sda).
On sda I have: /dev/sda1 which is btrfs, 250GB big and has openSUSE Tumbleweed on it, and /dev/sda2 which is swap.
On the other disk,...
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Resolving Dual-Boot Issue: Windows Not Showing in GRUB Menu
I recently encountered a dual-boot issue on my Debian 12 system where Windows 10 was not showing up in the GRUB menu after a Debian update. I spent some time troubleshooting the problem and was able ...
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Why does the Linux kernel have its own bootloader
I am trying to work my way through Linux kernel code, and in this file there seems to be a full blown bootloader that bios is expected to run. I was under the impression that generally, grub will be ...
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Boot different drives
Is grub the only bootloader that can load an os on another disk than the one it is installed on?
Is grub the only bootloader that can do this, and boot an iso file (loopback)?
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How to edit grub file after restoring data on a new drive via dd?
I have a dual boot system with ubuntu 20.04 and windows 10. Because of being low on space I am upgrading my ssd to 512 gigs. I have booted into live ubuntu drive, and backed up each partition ubuntu, ...
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Computer boots to GRUB prompt, after moving drive from an old computer
After getting a new system, I moved the NVME drive from my old system to the new one, where both machines are set to boot using UEFI. As the EFI setup is machine specific, I expected to encounter ...
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Fresh install of Ubuntu server 22.04 wont boot fully. looking for /usr (booting from software raid)
I have a dell C4140 that I am installing ubuntu server 22.04 on. In the installer, I set up 2 drives as boot devices (the system has 2 nvme drives 500GB) so that UEFI can access either drive (that ESP ...
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Linux Live USB doesn't boot on GIGABYTE Motherboard
I have installed Arch Linux on a USB (Using GPT Partition Table)
I have partitioned it to 3 partitions (All of them are from type Linux filesystem:
Partition 1 which is /boot I have formatted as ...
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how to dual boot with bootx64.efi
My device:
Thinkpad X1 Carbon and with Windows 11 x64 home edition on it.
I am trying to install Fedora workstation 38 x86_64 with dual boot.
What I did:
In the fedora installation process, I mount ...
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How can I remove an entry in the GRUB boot menu and have another menu item be the default to boot?
I had Ubuntu on my laptop, then I decided to install Kali Linux latest version 2023 but Ubuntu shows up in boot manager and I want to remove it.
How can I remove this Ubuntu showing up and directly ...
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How do I install grub on a drive separate from my root partition?
I currently, have a root partition from an arch install I did before, on an NVMe drive, but because my motherboard doesn't support booting from NVMe, I have to have my boot partition installed on a ...
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