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I'm encountering boot failure while trying to install a Linux distro from a CD. I'm using an older PC; here are its specs:
HP Pavilion a255c 2.66GHz CPU, 512MB RAM with a BIOS revision of 6/30/2003
I reclaimed an older drive (Seagate ST340810A) that seems to be working, as it's recognized in the…
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I'm using:
Dell XPS M1330 laptop, Ubuntu 11.10 32bits, single boot (only Linux OS), Virtualbox (with Windows XP on virtual machine).
System crashed while working with a very heavy image on GIMP (and Virtualbox was on). During the same session, I made an automatic system update, but don't know what…
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I've have a virtual machine with a VHD image that I've copied from Windows 7 to the Hyper-V server. This image was created on Windows 7 (Windows 7 64-bit), and I'm using it on Windows 7 as boot image. Starting this virtual machine with the Hyper-V Manager gives this error: "Boot failure. Reboot and…
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I have installed Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 LTS on an ext4 partition. Whenever my system looses power suddenly, It doesn't boot into the normal procedure to fix the problems automatically, but switches to the busy box shell (where it says Kernel Panic : No init found)
So I guess kernel is refusing to…
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I have a system with 3 SATA drives which runs fine. Got a new SSD drive and wanted to install a fresh Windows-7 on it. So I removed the boot drive and replaced it with the SSD drive. Installed Windows and when it was done, rebooted and now I get "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter"…
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With the following setup I get a blinking cursor after installation:
Windows 7 64bit installed in first SSD (not UEFI, using MBR)
Installation of Ubuntu 12.04 64Bit on gpt partioned disk seems to work without problems but does not boot. It stops with a blinking cursor.
I used the partitioning scheme…
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With the following setup I get a blinking cursor after installation:
Windows 7 64bit installed in first SSD (not UEFI, using MBR)
Installation of Ubuntu 12.04 64Bit on gpt partioned disk seems to work without problems but does not boot. It stops with a blinking cursor.
Partitioning scheme:
sdb1…
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I'm trying to get UEFI boot on my ProBook 4720s.
Because I swapped the HDD for a SSD I had a blank canvas to start.
The 12.04 Live DVD refuses to boot into UEFI, as do Alternate and desktop CD's.
However, when I make a 16Gb flashdrive into a live FS using the bootdisk tool in ubuntu,
I can boot from…
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Configuration:
MBB: ASRock X79 Extreme6
Win 7 installed on a INTEL 40GB SSD (GPT partitioned)
Ubuntu 14.04 on a CORSAIR 30GB SSD (Ext4 and SWAP)
I had Windows 7 installed previously in UEFI mode, using 3 partitions (GPT) and works fine if left alone. In UEFI BIOS settings I can see sometimes…
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I have three disks, one GPT partitioned containing Windows 7 and Debian, the other MBR partitioned containing CentOS, and the other one MBR partitioned, empty.
It used to work (loading Windows boot manager using rEFIt) but now after installing CentOS and OpenIndiana on the second drive, Windows won't…
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