How can I boot a BIOS-mode platform on an UEFI station without CSM? Is it possible for GRUB or SuperGRUB to boot a platform like Debian on an UEFI station, without using CSM? What’s actually preventing that?;) Asked By: Jason Hunter || Source The short answer is that you can’t boot a system which needs …
arch linux not booting up after installation. Issue with grub I was currently trying to install arch linux as dual boot in my laptop (i3). I was following this tutorial – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGhifbn6088 I completed the steps (everything installed normally) but during reboot I am getting this error Here are the things I checked: My windows …
crypttab seems to not been active After I upgraded from Linux Mint 21.1 to 21.2 the newest initrd stopped working. The older one works fine. Regenerating the initrd doesn’t help. On startup with the newest initrd the error tells that the UUID of my decrypted Rootdrive does not exist, so I am guessing that the …
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, windows, efi …
Where does grub-install take the arguments for grub-mkimage from? When I run grub-install /dev/vda -v I see this line in the output: grub-mkimage –directory ‘/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc’ –prefix ‘(,msdos1)/boot/grub’ –output ‘/boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img’ –dtb ” –format ‘i386-pc’ –compression ‘auto’ ‘ext2’ ‘part_msdos’ ‘biosdisk’ How do I configure GRUB to add specific modules in the list of grub-mkimage arguments? Backstory: I …
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 FAT32 Partition 2 which is the SWAP and formatted to SWAP …
UEFI HTTP boot only: GRUB2 used a mysterious HTTP agent "UefiHttpBoot/1.0" to load initrd and failed to completely read large initrd I was using GRUB for UEFI PXE boot or UEFI HTTP boot of a Linux Live OS (made by Ubuntu Focal or Bionic or Jammy). I used the same grub.cfg for both methods. It …
Computer freezes on grub "Select Operating System" screen I have a computer running KDE Neon. I recently attempted to repair grub using boot-repair since I kept getting the grub-rescue screen when booting. Now when I try to boot I see the grub Select Operating System screen but after selecting any option on the list, or …
KDE Neon GRUB menu freezing after using boot-repair to fix try and fix GRUB Rescue prompt I’m not too familiar with Linux in general so please bare with me. TLDR I tried installing KDE Neon on an external USB hard drive, but when I tried booting my computer back into KDE Neon (not from the …
Grub error 452 out of range pointer When rebooted OS linux mint writes Grub Rescue. I fixed it by writing these commands set prefix=(hd0,gpt3)/boot/grub set root=(hd0,gpt3) insmod normal normal Then when I entered the OS he wrote: 452 out of range pointer: 0x9cffe020 Backtrace (.text 0xa055 .data 0x15d6c): Aborted. Press any key to exit Help …
Kernel panic – not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0) I have created a image file with this commands: dd if=/dev/zero of=linux.img bs=16M count=1024 cfdisk linux.img mkfs.ext4 linux.img and installed a linux system following the instructions from the book Linux From Scratch 11.3. I have access to this system via chroot, …
how is grub(2) able to hardcode root= I just had a whole series of problems with boot on my Debian system (SID) suddenly it reported: /grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found. Eventually I got it back (fsck moved lots of stuff from /boot into lost+found and I needed to replace via grub-install) But after it was all working …
How should the EFI partition be handled in a software raid? I am trying to install Arch onto a computer, I have two storage devices. I partitioned the drives identically as I would if I were installing to one storage device on efi dekstop. sda sda1 (boot partition) sda2 (swap) sda3 (root) sdb sdb1 sdb2 …
User friendly way to apply BadRAM patterns My Linux machine is having issues with faulty RAM. I ran PCMemTest-64, and I determined the following patterns: Now, I have stock Ubuntu which doesn’t seem to have the BadRAM patch, and I’m a bit nervous about compiling Linux from scratch. So I’m wondering if there is an …
Create custom bootable linux image; not a livecd So I’ve compiled my kernel and initrd. How can I then create an image and install grub to actually load this image from a disk? My goal isn’t to create a livecd out of it that is bootable from USB, as there are plenty of articles on …
Is there a way to get the computer (or hard drive) product name in grub 2.0? I’ve tried cpuid among other things, but I can’t seem to get the computer model. For example, the output I’m looking for would be something like: grub> computermodel HP Notebook 2016 Thanks. Asked By: theguy123 || Source You can …
Ubuntu fails to boot due to GNOME display manager error Ubuntu version: 22.04 last I checked, never upgraded I use XFCE on Ubuntu as my desktop environment but I have to enter my credentials through GNOME’s login screen before I can use XFCE. Today I was browsing a pretty cpu intensive site on Firefox that …
What does (any) Windows do to EFI partition during an update (in general)? If someone has any information about Windows update actions, please share. I’m currently running Pop!_OS 22.04 (and other several temporary distros) and booting to it through rEFInd. So, I heard a lot of comments about Windows breaking GRUB, but I don’t know …
Old Macbook (white plastic body Macbook 3,1) with Ubuntu shows grub shell when booting I have an old Macbook (white plastic body Macbook 3,1) which I use for driving my telescope. Recently I installed Astronomy Linux (Ubuntu) on it (https://sourceforge.net/projects/astronomy-linux-21-04/) by following these instructions: https://mesom.de/efi32boot/index.html I could get it installed correctly, but after rebooting, instead …
How to enter rescue mode (RescueInitramfs) on Debian server? I am trying to boot into RescueInitRamfs (https://wiki.debian.org/RescueInitramfs) on my Debian server after configuring DropBear as per https://benediktkr.github.io/ops/2015/05/01/remote-fde.html (mostly). I have tried updating the kernel boot parameter in file /etc/default/grub by setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet rescue/enable=true" and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rescue/enable=true" (as per https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch08s06.en.html), then running sudo update-grub. I have verified …
