Questions Tagged With boot

How to boot frugally Damn Small Linux with grub?

Benny — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:47:51 -0400

I'm using a VAIO laptop with some Puppy Linux distros in the H/D ready to boot depending on my choice at the splash screen or, if no key is pressed within a short period of time, the default (first choice in list) will be booted up automatically.

One of those choices is DSL (DamnSmallLinux). I've tried above a half-dozen different entries at the menu.lst file as suggested by others at some forums but it never worked for me. I would like to see some already tried entries that have, indeed, worked. Also, it would be helpful if the actual contents of the folder containing DSL files is shown as a list of files in there.

My actual menu.lst entry for DSL is shown below:

# 9) Linux bootable partition config begins
title Damn Small Linux
rootnoverify   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/(hd0,1) ro lang=us toram noeject frugal>
initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
boot
# Linux bootable partition config ends

While looking at this entry above I decided to change those parts that read "/boot/isolinux" to /dsl only. I'm following the same scheme I use for other OS that I'm actually able to boot from folders beside dsl.

PS. This's the first time I'm posting here & have noticed something strange. When trying to insert text (various lines from the menu.lst files) using the tool for 'code' I was given a message to insert the text within a blue square but, even though the text was inserted, the format of the text was messed up. I finally did it by repeating the process for each line of text. Is this the correct behavior or there's another way?

Thanks in advance for any info/help on the above issues!

GRUB rescue

Traxler331 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:22:42 -0400

I had a dual boot with win 7, Ubuntu, and Linux mint. I deleted the two partitions for Linux and Ubuntu and extended the windows partition back into the unallocated space. When I restart my computer , I get an error that reads

"loading operating system.. GRUB loading. Error: no such partition. Entering rescue mode... Grub rescue>"

And I'm not sure how to get windows to boot back normally from here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Repairing Filesystem in fedora 12

abdul9711 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:51:00 -0400

Dear All I have installed fedora 12 on my system and i am getting this error message on my booting screen. An error occurred during this file system check. Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot *** when you leave the shell; Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue)

typing Control-D it's reboot my system and get the same error and i type the root password for repairing my linux file system then i got this error after login.

bash: connot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device bash: no job control in this shell (Reapir filesystem) 1 #

in this termnal i run fsck -A -y command to repair my filesystem. then i got error

fsck.ext4: Ubable to resolve ' UUID= ..................................,

and after rebooting i got the same error.

Plz Help me

Regards Abdul

screen corruption after hibernate -- Is there another way to refresh the X11 display?

daves dad — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:23:26 -0400

When I restore from hibernate the screen is often corrupted. I suspect the graphics memory is not being saved. Suspend-to-ram works fine.

It also looks like the font-cache is corrupted, as all letters are corrupted consistently.

Logging out and back in again fixes it, but I don't want to have to do that. I have been logging-out then hibernating, but this is more effort and eliminates most of the benefit of hibernate.

Is there another way to refresh the X11 display? The Ctrl+Alt+F1 ... does not work. It switches back to X11 instantly, but still corrupted

I am using Debian 6

DUAL BOOT problem - UBUNTU-7.04 WITH WIN XP RPO

azeemest — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 03:03:34 -0400

Dear All,

I have already install win XP then I have install UBUNTU 7.04 in free space but next time WIN XP not in bootable option, and system directly enter into ubuntu

then vise vesa....

First I install Ubuntu7.04 in free space then I install WIN XP in partitiion C: but now system directly enter into XP without giving dual option. but ubuntu partition is still show in device manager. image is attached (problem in atached uploading require Karma >60 ???????)

regards. azeem

LINUX-WINDOWS DUAL BOOT

ajtvsv07 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 08:57:28 -0400

I don't know how to install Gnacktrack side by side along with the windows7. I tried it more than 5 times but i cannot dual boot it. Can anyone help me to install and say how can boot windows as well as Linux?

How to gather troubleshooting information during startup?

rschuler — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:34:45 -0400

I am trying to get linux installed on an older laptop. Some of the time it starts up and runs just fine. But most attempts of at starting the laptop gets through BIOS and starts linux. Then during the time when /dev is being populated the laptop abruptly powers off.

I do not have any information about what is going wrong on the failed startups. Is there a way to get some logging information out of one of these failed startup attempts? Is there some other troubleshooting technique I should be using?

What happened to the gOS Cloud boot option on the Gygabyte M912x netbook?

pmarini — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:01:38 -0400

Before buying the M912x netbook I had read some reviews about it having an option to quickly boot into a gOS Cloud environment (that is, similar to those famous SplahTop one) but after using it for a while I still haven't found how to access this option/feature or if it is present at all on the computer...

any hint?

[and again, if someone could fix the tags...]

Resizing with GParted makes (other) Windows 7 partition unusable

pmarini — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:08:57 -0400

Am I using it in the wrong way?
Luckily they were "temporary" Windows 7 RC versions that I was using while deciding whether to get rid of XP or not, but it would seem that when using GParted to do the partitioning, after rebooting in XP is fine but in 7 it says something along the line "partition invalid" or whatnot...
There are two primary partitions with the two Windows system on them and an additional Extended one with Linux.

addendum: the error message during boot is as follows
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
...
Status: 0xc0000225 Info: the boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.

I had done many resize before with Linux/XP partitions but never with 7 and aside the odd time when I had to reboot twice in order to get the correct drive letters under XP (as explained in the GParted manual) I never had any other problem or anything bad like this

PXE Booting openSUSE, gives 'invalid or corrupt image'

rfelsburg — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:48:01 -0400

When I boot using PXE Boot into openSuse, from the menu, I get an error saying 'invalid or corrupt kernel image'. The initrd.img file, and vmlinuz file were both copied from a openSUSE 11.2 system, which is what I'm trying to setup PXE Boot for. PXE Boot works fine, dhcpd, and tftpd both work fine, the box receives an ip, it is directed to the proper file which I know by viewing the log file /var/log/messages, they are at the bottom so you can see them.

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ll /boot/vmlinuz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 May 12 20:46 /boot/vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-0.1-default ll /boot/initrd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 May 12 21:25 /boot/initrd -> initrd-2.6.31.5-0.1-default

initrd.img and vmlinuz were copied from initrd-2.6.31.5-0.1-default and vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-0.1-default respectively

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tree suse suse -- 11.2 |-- i586 | |-- initrd.img |-- vmlinuz `-- x86_64

3 directories, 2 files

======================

pxlinux.cfg

timeout 300 default menu.c32 prompt 0

menu title PXE Menu

label Boot openSuse 11.2 i586 menu label Boot openSuse 11.2 kernel suse/11.2/i586/vmlinuz append initrd=suse/11.2/i586/initrd.img

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/var/log/messages

May 13 21:23:58 edna in.tftpd[16342]: RRQ from 10.0.0.254 filename linux-install/pxelinux.0 May 13 21:23:58 edna xinetd[10467]: START: tftp pid=16341 from=10.0.0.254 May 13 21:23:58 edna in.tftpd[16342]: tftp: client does not accept options May 13 21:23:58 edna in.tftpd[16343]: RRQ from 10.0.0.254 filename linux-install/pxelinux.0 May 13 21:23:58 edna in.tftpd[16344]: RRQ from 10.0.0.254 filename linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/20c6a714-806d-d711-b751-000bcd89309d May 13 21:23:58 edna in.tftpd[16345]: RRQ from 10.0.0.254 filename linux-install/menu.c32 May 13 21:23:58 edna in.tftpd[16346]: RRQ from 10.0.0.254 filename linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/20c6a714-806d-d711-b751-000bcd89309d May 13 21:24:01 edna in.tftpd[16350]: RRQ from 10.0.0.254 filename linux-install/suse/11.2/i586/vmlinuz May 13 21:25:58 edna dhcpd: Dynamic and static leases present for 10.0.0.254. May 13 21:25:58 edna dhcpd: Remove host declaration pxeboot or remove 10.0.0.254 May 13 21:25:58 edna dhcpd: from the dynamic address pool for name May 13 21:25:58 edna dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.0.0.254 from 00:0b:cd:89:30:9d via eth0 May 13 21:25:58 edna dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.0.0.254 to 00:0b:cd:89:30:9d via eth0 May 13 21:39:01 edna xinetd[10467]: EXIT: tftp status=0 pid=16341 duration=903(sec)

Ubuntu Booting very slowly

Tapan Chugh — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:19:12 -0400

I an using Ubuntu 10.04. I have decent hardware (2.6 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB Ram) However it takes a lot of time to boot. I tried booting through the recovery mode but i could not understand anything.

I have uploaded the boot log here http://pastebin.com/7DGS3u7h

Booting Asus EEE with Ubuntu

trzewiczek — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:43:03 -0400

I've got this problem: i start the netbook (Asus EEE PC) with Ubuntu installed along with Windows XP and i want to boot from the USB Stick with some other LiveUSB distro. Unfortunately After i push the power button i see the grub menu immediately, so I can't change the boot device in the BIOS. What should i do with it?!

Access GRUB boot menu in Fedora?

Emmanuel — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:34:32 -0400

I installed Fedora on a VM to test out something. Only, I managed to screw up and I forgot the root password, so I want to boot into single user mode to reset the root password. I can't seem to get to GRUB though. I heard that Fedora will hide the menu if you don't have a multi-boot setup or something

Is there a key I need to hold or something?