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Enter Bios/UEFI from desktop shortcut
I am currently dual booting windows and linux, i dont want to use grub because grub tends to get very flakey the longer things go on.
IS there a way for me to create a desktop shortcut in linux to ...
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Keyboard doesn't work correctly when booting the linux kernel with single mode from CFE bootloader using UART
I've been encountering a specific and weird bug that i honestly can't seem to find any solution for, i've been toying around with this blu ray player and found a uart port, i wire it to my pi pico ...
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Kali Linux can't boot into gui
I was trying to configure my Nvidia gsync as I heard online that this stops some flickering issues I was having with a game, I edited a config file to enable this and then rebooted and then it refused ...
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Disk not found while installing Debian 12 on dual boot with Windows 11
I'm encountering an issue while attempting to set up a dual boot system with Debian 12 and Windows 11. Whenever I try to install Debian 12 alongside my existing Windows 11 installation, I am unable to ...
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Booting issues on the Raspberry Pi 4B
My Raspberry Pi 4B running Pi OS Lite 64-bit is having issues booting. I've watched videos on how to fix it, but none have worked since all only work on the desktop version.
I have installed the OS ...
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Installing Debian Bookworm - from ISO on Hard disk partition (NO CD/DVD, NO USB drive)
I would like to install Debian Bookworm onto an old laptop (Compaq Evo N1020v).
The CD/DVD -drive of the laptop is unusable (as old laptop drives often are).
Unfortunately, the laptop, although it has ...
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Trying to create a simple DOS boot USB stick [closed]
Pretty simple request. I'd like to make a bootable USB stick that contains DOS files to let me update the BIOS on an old motherboard.
I know about DOS boot disks from AllBootDisks - https://www....
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Why does my monitor shut off / enter sleep mode when I try to install Linux?
So I've been trying to install Linux on one of my SSDs, but whenever I get past grub to get to the graphic installation, my monitor shuts off and enters sleep mode. I'm not sure what causes this. I've ...
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latest kernels issue, wont lauch
i'm not sure exactly which version, but I think my graphics card has a problem with kernel 6.8 and later. When i want to install arch linux, i should add "nomodeset" to grub so i can install ...
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MokList error: Volume full; cannot boot Asus laptop
I have an old ASUS laptop. The SDD is fully clean, empty. The laptop used to have Windows on it.
Now I want to install only Ubuntu.
The error I get is this and I cannot boot at all, nothing:
Reading ...
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Boot Linux with rootfs in ram with uboot
On my embedded devices, using RPi 4, I want to boot linux without SD card used. My idea is, with uboot, I will create rootfs partition from .ext3 image, just like it's created on SD card, but not on ...
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"Failed to Mount API filesystems". On copied drive with updated partition UUID's
So I directly cloned the partition layout of my main linux installation.
Which is Fedora 38, using commands as follows.
sgdisk --backup=table /dev/sda
sgdisk --load-backup=table /dev/sdb
I updated ...
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Install Builder - Linux - Run at startup
I created an installer using Install Builder on Debian.
This installer installs an application. How to make this application run at computer boot up on Debian Linux from Install Builder installer?
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How to delete additional EFI (EFI NO NAME), for installing Fedora using T2Linux?
I am trying to dual boot Macbook Pro 2019 with Intel & T2 using https://t2linux.org by installing Linux/ Fedora.
Now, the system is NOT booting to live ISO USB.
**me@mes-MacBook-Pro ~ % diskutil ...
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Why is Macbook Pro 2019 with Intel & T2 NOT recognizing live USB for dual booting Linux using T2Linux ISO image?
Macbook Pro 2019 is NOT recognizing live USB for dual booting linux using https://t2linux.org ISO image
If I use 'Option' key, it will just show the single option, Macintosh HD and boot into MacOS
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Linux Mint 20.02 Cinnamon -- black screen on startup, no mouse showing
I moved my research computer (Linux Mint 20.02 Debbie Cinnamon OS) home, and booting it now, it allows me to select “LMDE 4 Debbie”, but after that the screen goes black, showing no mouse.
When I am ...
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Linux Distros not booting, import_mok_state() not found
I have a MS Surface Book 2 with Debian, running the Linux Surface custom kernel. While trying to reinstall the kernel I clearly deleted some package I wasn't supposed to (linux-surface-secureboot-mok ...
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How to bring X11/Xorg/X Server back from the dead on Debian 12?
Urgent help need, please! I recently had to perform a hard-reset (cycle the power) on a machine running Debian 12, and X11 will not start. After I enter my password, I get a black screen. Nothing. ...
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Linux won't boot with f2fs
I recently had a hardware failure and replaced by old HDD with an SSD. Therefore I used f2fs for my root partition. But now I am unable to boot properly due to fsck failure. I keep getting the ...
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Booting a LUKS-encrypted drive with a flash drive, falling back to keyboard
I have some systems configured using GRUB as my bootloader, with an unencrypted boot partition and everything else using LVM-on-LUKS. Right now, the only way to unlock the system is for me to ...
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USB with Kali Linux 2024.1 (not live) installed not visible in boot menu
Specifications:
Laptop: Lenovo Legion Pro 5i (Gen 8)
CPU: i9 (13th Gen)
GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060
USB B is a SanDisk Ultra Luxe (128GB)
For context:
Secure boot is off.
USB ports are working ...
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After installing Debian on USB stick, stick does not boot on MacBook
My goal is to install Debian to be bootable from a usb stick on a MacBook with two usb ports. To do so I booted from Debian Live flash on the first usb port. Next I used to Debian installer to ...
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Ubuntu (ZorinOS) boots only into tty1 terminal after delering all default keyrings
I am attempting to boot my computer after utilizing Seahorse to remove all of the default keyrings. Regretfully, the only thing I receive in return is a terminal that appears only on my secondary ...
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How to boot an HP XW8000 from a USB flash drive?
I have an old XW8000 machine that I’ve been trying and failing boot from USB flash drive for the last week.
I’ve tried burning Ubuntu 6.0, 8.0, 14.0, 22.04 on USB media using PowerIso and BalenaEtcher ...
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Why is USB stick not booting to update BIOS? Is this possible?
I want to update the BIOS for a system. I downloaded the latest ISO of the BIOS directly from the system's manufacturer.
I used Linux Mint's USB Image Writer to make a bootable USB stick of the ISO. ...
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Can't find installed linux in bootmenu
I just tried to install Linux server to my ThinkCentre m92p. First I tried to install Ubuntu server. Installation was completed successfully, but I couldn't find anything to boot in my boot menu. Then ...
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ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [\SB.UBTC.RUCC]
I've just bought myself a fresh new mini pc with a pre-installed Windows 11 Pro. After setting up Windows 11 with the first boot just to check if everything is fine, I tried to install Ubuntu 22.04.4 ...
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Can't boot from NVMe PCIe card + M.2 drive [duplicate]
Installed an NVMe PCIe card and 1TB M.2 drive on an older desktop (Sabretooth 990FX mobo + AMD FX-8320 CPU). The drive is seen by Linux and Windows, and I can read/write to it. The problem I have is ...
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Can't boot without acpi=off
First: this might gonna get a long one, but I‘m desperately looking for help!
Second: I‘m a total newb on Linux, so I have really limited Linux know-how.
Specs:
Asus ROG Strix G15DS-R7700X088W
AMD ...
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How to put Windows 10 on a thumb drive with Ventoy to install?
As suggested, I've downloaded Ventoy and did run the shell script. It's not clear to me what "install ventoy" does, but I did install it to a USB stick. How would I then get Windows 10 ...
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Failed to enable unit: Invalid argument systemctl enable .service
I have made a startup_test.sh with the following contents
cd /home/xyz/Desktop/
gnome-terminal -e "bash -c ./efg"
#desktop folder contains an executable named efg.
If I run gnome-terminal -...
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No completly encrypt and mount LVM during boot after update to bookworm
few day ago I update system and then problems begin to happen.
During boot I were thrown to initramfs (no drive found), so only option to continue is to do command below:
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/...
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Debian 12 install failed to install grub boot loader and now will only boot into grub and won't dpkg
Hardware:
Mini PC
Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N95
8GB DDR4 RAM
256GB PCIe 1X SSD
Tried to install Debian 12 on whole system from flash but failed to install boot loader and now only boots into grub. ...
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Windows 11 keeps messing with grub at every restart (+ possible solution?)
I installed Windows 11 and then Archlinux (I set a dual boot system within the same shared Efi partition).
Everything worked fine for a year or so. But now, whenever windows restarts, it makes grub ...
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How do I enable the GRUB menu on a dual boot startup, without admin rights?
I set the grub timer to 0 from Linux, to make it automatically go to the selected OS without displaying the menu, but it was accidentally set to Windows. I do not have admin privileges in Windows or ...
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Display issues on Notebook, but not in Windows
Since some time, there are some kind of screen Artifacts on my Notebook screen. From the bottom, there are around 50 rows on the screen, which do not Display the appropirate output they should(Aka the ...
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systemd-timesyncd: fails on boot due to ordering cycle (dbus, sysinit)
i've been having a hard time with a pretty basic Rocky Linux 9 setup where my
systemd-timesyncd unit consistently fails on boot.
here are the logs
Feb 12 18:22:17 bigpu systemd[1]: sysinit.target: ...
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Add "Windows 10" (with Bitlocker encrypted) boot entry to GRUB [duplicate]
I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 & Ubuntu Unity 23.10.
My main system is the Ubuntu system, but from time to time i have something todo on Windows.
Currently im switching with the BIOS/...
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External USB SSD disk fails to mount at boot
I have two external drives attached to my Ubuntu Server 22.04.3. My /etc/fstab includes, among other things, the following two lines for the two drives:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/d7dbea69-0332-4d12-b905-...
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Can't Install any Linux Distro on new AMD Ryzen 7 5700U Mini PC
I'm trying to install Proxmox on a new machine (GMKteck NucBox M5 Pro Mini PC) but keep getting the following error :
EFI boot mode detected, mounting efivars filesystem mount:
/sys/firmware/efi/...
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Install 2nd nvme with 2nd Linux; will grub install properly?
I have a Dell laptop with Debian 12 on an internal 2TB nvme device and grub. I wish to install a 4TB device in the 2nd nvme slot, and install Debian 12 on that 2nd nvme as well, which will be ...
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How to install full linux to a usb drive like unetbootin
I have recently looked into linux as my mac is currently at 10.12 and I need to run newer apps but currently cannot get a new computer. I have decided to move to linux but I don't want to touch the ...
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I am unable to write data to the hard drive and cannot backup it
Known:
A hard drive is a solid-state drive with a 512GB SATA interface.
There are multiple partitions in hard drive A, each in sector order, used for [recovery/ESP (EFI partition)/MSR/Windows/Btrfs/...
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NVMe doesn't boot anymore after swap
I had an NVMe drive from a dead laptop that I needed to recover data from. I don't have any sort of adapter so I removed the NVMe from my working Linux tower and swapped in the target for recovery.
I ...
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Can't boot into Kali after an update. Still learning how to parse these logs...can anyone lend a set of eyes and help me sort this out?
I recently did a:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
And have been unable to boot since.
Fortunately, I can boot into recovery mode but I am having trouble diagnosing the issue. I've ...
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System wont boot..."rmi4_f34: probe of rmi4-00.fn34 failed with error -22" How can I go about fixing this?
I recently did a sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y, and have been unable to boot into my machine since. The boot screen hangs on this message:
) 16 (>)71739] rmi4_f34 rmi4-00.fn34: ...
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How to regenerate Windows boot files without being able to boot into it
So I have an EFI dual boot system with Windows and Arch, and because of some grub tomfoolery I ended up completely wiping the EFI partition and installing systemd-boot. But now I don't have any way to ...
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Non-bootable windows install
I have recently tried to install windows 11 by flashing a .iso file to a 10 gigabyte system partition. The mounting of the disk and extraction goes perfectly, and I have marked the partition as ...
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Boot Image from Running System (Ubuntu 22.04)
I have a Linux system running in another place, which I use as processing server, now I'm adquiring a new one and I would like to export all the configuration programs and maybe folder structure to ...
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Is it possible to download a Linux bootable operating system direct to a wiped HDD?
I am in the hospital and have no money so don't need advise me to get a USB drive please.
I purchased a laptop which ended up having BitLocker enabled when I disabled secure boot.
I have a 3.5GB USB ...
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