Console application permitting the user to choose between several installed operating systems.
Questions tagged [grub]
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Blank screen after grub menu
I just rebooted an Ubuntu Server 10.04. After choosing boot options in the grub menu, though, it just displays a black screen with the blinking white underscore in the upper-left corner.
The machine has had (hardware) trouble with networking before,…
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How can a BAT script find the partition number of %systemdrive%
I am trying to write a BAT script to produce a grub4dos menu.lst file.
A boot entry in the menu.lst file typically contains a line like:
root (hdx,y)
where x is the hard disk number(first disk hd0) and y is the partition number on the disk (first…

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How to change grub defaults?
I've got Ubuntu 10.04 and Grub 0.97, I've created /etc/default/grub (according to example in menu.lst):
defoptions=
howmany=all
But every-time when update-grub is executed quite splash is appended as kernel parameter. I cannot find out why this…

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Installing grub2 on ubuntu with software raid mirroring
Can someone help me out on this?
I accidentally installed grub on usb flash drive during ubuntu server installation.
Now I cant boot system without drive attached to server.
I want to install grub on hard drive with grub-install but i don't know…
Marko
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How to get rid of grub error on aptitude safe-upgrade
This is a new ubuntu 10.04 root server at the hoster. I did the initial
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Now I am confronted with this message each time I run sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
root@Ubuntu-1004-lucid-64-minimal ~ # sudo…

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grub2 error : out of disk
I recently install ArchBang on a machine with Ubuntu and XP. I ran update-grub from Ubuntu and it found the new install and created an entry. However, when I try to boot it, I get:
error: out of disk
error: you need to load kernel first
I've tried…

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I can't boot Win7 OR Ubuntu after installing Ubuntu 9.10
i made a partition on my new computer because i decided that i wanted to have both Win7 and Ubuntu 9.10. I made a disc image on my usb driver, and restarted my computer as to run Ubuntu without making any changes, ust to try it out. I then decided i…

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Kernel Panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init (for VM image from a physical machine)
I had a CentOS 5.4 x86_64 machine where I imaged the primary partition with the following command so that I could run it in a VM on my local machine for testing.
#dd bs=1024 count=10482412 if/dev/sda of/mnt/storage/sda.img
Then I converted the…

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How to permanently ignore grub-pc package for aptitude?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 virtualized under Xen and the grub-pc package is broken and apt-get notifies me every time I run it.
I just want to configure apt-get / aptitude to ignore this package permanently.
How do I do this?
Errors were encountered…

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Reinstalling GRUB on RAID array
I have a computer running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop x64. I just bought another tb drive and wanted to combine my two drives using RAID 0. I have a MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard and decided to use their built in RAID support. The last step of setting up RAID…

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Random Grub Error 2
The problem started today after a restart to switch power sources. Before today it would reboot fine everytime.
I recently did update Ubuntu before the problem started. I have tried the find /boot/grub/stage1 from an ubuntu live cd but it didn't…

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Detect CPU during boot
I like to be able to detect the cpuinfo from during boot using grub2.
Can this be done?
What function should I call?
Is there a manual that lists all of the function available to the grub2 env?

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Boot Debian Linux from image on external USB drive
I have an external USB hard drive with one big VFAT partition. In order to run Linux occasionally on a Windows system, I'd like to maintain a Debian Linux installation in one big file (say debianroot.img) on the VFAT partition of the external hard…

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No Grub on VPS?
I bought a new VPS running CentOS 5.5, and I'm trying to upgrade my kernel. I've downloaded, compiled and installed it sucessfully, and now I need to set it up in the grub settings. But there's no grub directory in /boot.
Where is, then, the…

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Grub Error 18 - Solid State Drive
I recently used Raw Copy to make an image of my 300gb Raptor Hd to a OCZ Vertex SSD 60GB. And When I pluged in the SSD to boot I get a Grub Error 18. I have tried to changed in the BIOS setting to LBA, Large, Auto, trying different…
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