Questions tagged [boot-loader]
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Boot manager shows two entries but only one partition remains after restore
I had to perform a recovery (using veeam recovery agent) on a windows 2019 server instance.
Before the recovery the system was configured as software raid (mirroring) with two dynamic disks.
After the recovery only one disk remained and is now a…
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Oracle Linux server boot failure
I have an Oracle Linux 6.9 server which crashed and now it is failing to boot with the following error.
Boot Failed - Hard Disk 0: Fv (CDxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx) / FvFiles(1Fxxxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxxx-9-xxxx)
Any help would be highly…
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bcdedit doesn't work in Windows PE when Applying/Deploying/Restoring an Image?
I captured an image and I'm trying to restore it to a different VM without using Sysprep since I'm actively using the vm server I want to clone and I don't want to have to set it back up again, I could but it would be a waste of time:
Started the…
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Back up the restore partition and boot loader?
Got a new workstation replacement laptop and it came with XP Pro. I'm going to use it to test Windows 7 and Ubuntu, but it may need to go back to XP later on.
It has the recovery option at boot and a 10GB partition at the end of the disk for the…
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QNAP TS-228 u-boot firmware
I am looking for somebody with a functioning QNAP TS-228 (32 bit; non-a version).
I had a firmware upgrade gone bad and the firmware got corrupted. I have a usb ttl so I managed to connect to serial console and somewhat fix the box…
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Install Ubuntu on a separate hard drive?
I am running Windows 7. I would like to dual-boot Ubuntu, but minimize risk of something going wrong. In the past I have encountered an issue with the bootloader getting corrupted and having to reformat the whole drive. The magic bootloader recovery…
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How big is grub2?
Due to "Meltdown" I am in the progress of moving our CentOS7-XEN-PV-DomUs to HVM mode. See here on why I need to migrate to HVM
This involves installing a bootloader - unnessesary on PV-DomUs, since they use pygrub to emulate the grub/grub2 boot…
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