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How to reinstall boot loader on FreeBSD?

I'm planning to use rsync to clone an entire FreeBSD server to another machine, overwriting the files of the existing old FreeBSD OS (minus /etc/hostid and a few others) But that would break the boot process I think? I imagine I would need to…
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PXE boot from an other Network

so i got an problem. I set up an Router with Debian9, its task is that Clients in the Network are able to boot from an PXE Server( the PXE Server is on an other Network) I heard sth. about IP-Helper RelayAgent But i didnt find any documentation for…
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BTX halted error on FreeBSD

I understand there are a few threads about this out there but my issue seems particular. Recently my boot disk, an SSD, failed and I have just rebuilt it. Given the opportunity, I thought I might go ahead and build it with a ZFS boot device (ie…
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How to diagnose why Grub won't boot a Windows partition?

I just imaged a Windows partition onto a new drive with dd. Then I changed the NTFS UUID to a new one. Then I ran update-grub (using grub2) and restarted. Now there is a new menu entry in the Grub menu corresponding to my new cloned drive - but when…
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Problems with grub with our RAID10 Ubuntu installation

We have a Dell PowerEdge R730xd with 24 SSDs of 500GB each. We need to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on this machine, and use it as a database (postgresql). Our RAID controller is an Avago MEGARAID, and to my knowledge it behaved exactly like a H310…
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Bootloader password - existing content found in /etc/grub.d/01_users

I need to set a bootloader password and am apprehensive about changing the existing config (per warning about potentially making a system unbootable). RH documentation says to add the following lines: cat <
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WDS boot image doesnt want to start

I'am using Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2. I Have virtual machine of generation 2. My goal is to boot Windows PE boot image from WDS server using PXE. PXE boot seems OK. WDS starts its bootloader, then I choose boot image from list,…
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Verify architecture of kernel file

Note: I am NOT interested in the currently running kernel, but on a kernel that I am going to boot and which is in a file in the filesystem. I am going to boot a new kernel. I have prepared grub.conf and run sudo update-grub. I am nearly sure I have…
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Where to install GRUB 2 boot loader?

I have: sda and sdb which partitions is forming mirror RAID md0 md1 md2 md3 During update process, I was prompted where to install GRUB boot loader - on sda, sdb, md's or all together? What choice is correct?
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Change Boot Loader and OS Partition

I'm moving my OS from 1 drive to another. I have used Drive Image XML to copy the OS partition image to a different partition on a different physical drive. I want to remove the original OS drive and use the new one. Do I need to move the boot…
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Remove Boot Manager

We have a few ooooold boxes that were set up to dual boot Windows/Debian using grub. We re-imaged these boxes in order to use them as web servers but the boot manager still comes up. How can we get rid of grub so that it just boots straight into…
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FreeBSD Disable Serial Console from Bootloader?

I have a FreeBSD appliance (meaning I can't open the case or I will void the warranty) that was working well until I accidentally clicked 'Enable Serial Console' and rebooted... I went to plug in my serial cable and found the device has no serial…
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PXE boot linux and windows

Here is the scenario: I have 3 machines connected to the network thru a switch: one is the server that can act as the tftp server, switch has the DHCP server and other 2 machines needs OS to be installed on. One needs linux and the other one…
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Compiling linux kernel - `make install` asks for LILO. Now what?

So I am following this guide to compile my custom kernel - http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/custom-instances/pv-grub-custom-compiled-kernel#sph_compile-and-install-the-kernel So far so good, but I hit a little road block with make install. …
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Can you add a application to the tools list on windows 7/Vista bootloader

I have been researching a way to add the new Microsoft offline security scanner to the bootloader on windows 7. Allow security scanner to be used when a machine is possibly infected. Visual BCD may do it. I was wondering if anyone has accomplished…
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