I can currently boot into a given Linux distro on my hard drive. Is there a generic way, for any given Linux distro, in which a boot CD can be created to boot that particular distribution to a login prompt ? The boot CD would need to bypass booting from the hard disk.
Before you say, use the installation CD ( or DVD ), I have repeatedly run into problems booting into a Linux distribution from the installation CD, for quite a number of distributions. These distributions have a so-called repair mode which quite often does not work, or has been gratuitously removed in some current release.
Before you can say, use SuperGrub ( or SuperGrub2 ), both have failed abysmally on my computer in a number of situations.
I am looking for a generalized cookbook solution for any given ( fairly modern/recent ) Linux distribution for creating such a boot CD for that distribution.
Searches on the Internet yield to me a bewildering series of conflicting info so I am asking here believing that there must be some surefire solution generic to Linux itself.
Right direction regarding the creation of a bootable Linux Image for PXE booting. I've already consulted google and the other obvious sources I could think of, but it seems that PXE is mostly used to install stuff, which isn't quite what I need.
The goal here is to have a pool of computers that boot from a central source so maintenance is less of a hassle. Installation of the individual PCs is not desired and I'm supposed to provide a functional Linux via PXE booting.
What I need is basically a way to turn a working Linux into an image that can be booted via network. Or to recreate that Linux as an image that I can boot.
I'd like to create a bootable USB drive containing a Linux minimalist: In fact I want to do is boot from the USB (compatible BIOS), as a minimalist Linux starts, and runs a file Shell, then at the end of this execution, displaying a root prompt (command line) to the execution of some commands summary.
- No GUI
- Network access required
- Minimal Linux system (the minimum necessary to boot and run a file Shell), with selection of preloaded commands (grep, pico, cat, ...)
I saw on the net that is doable with DOS on Windows, but nothing on Linux. So I need help, because everything I find is related to an existing system (Ubuntu, Debian, ...), I want a gold basis the most minimalist and lightweight as possible. What I presented is feasible or not? If yes, how to achieve it?
I have two hard drives in my desktop. One HD has a working Ubuntu system-hence the ability to post here- and the other contains Windows XP Pro. When the XP drive crashed I was able to re-install an image I had saved using Acronis. Unfortunately the dual-boot option at startup is no longer available. I can only boot to Ubuntu. Not so bad really but there are some programs on Windows that I need to use. Is there any way, using Grub perhaps, that I can reconfigure an MBR to include the second hard drive and the Windows system?
I am running OS 11.3 and I want to create a boot CD so that if my boot partition is moved I can still boot from the boot CD and re-initialize grub again. Is there some easy to use utility which will enable me to do this ?
I have a Dell Vostro 1400 with the Nvidia GPU running ubuntu 10.04. There is a problem with the GPU and dell has recommended that you upgrade your BIOS. I have the executable that can run from either dos or windows. The problem is, I can't boot the system long enough before the screen goes blank on me, my option is to boot from a USB disk to a dos command prompt and then execute the update. I have the file, I just need instructions on how to create a bootable dos disk using a USB pendrive.
I've spent the past several hours trying to determine how I can mount a Windows 7 ISO onto my USB drive using Ubuntu. I have followed this post, as it is the only thing that came up on Google after hours of searching (mostly it shows how to make a Ubuntu USB drive on Windows, not vice versa.)
Using the method in that post, it seems like I was successful. However, after a few seconds it gave me an error like this.
Code: Load Driver
A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.
Note: If the Windows installation media is in the CD/DVD dive, you can safely remove it for this step.
I am wondering if it is possible to put multiple distros on one DVD. I am wanting to put Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Fedora 15 on one DVD so that I can pop it into the cd drive and choose to boot from the DVD into any one of them. I know I can just load them on a virtual machine but I will be using different computers and don't want to install it on all the machines.
I would like to create a multi boot dvd with multiple distros on it. I just got a linux mag with 5 distros on it and all of them boot!! This is by far the coolest thing i've seen. How is this done? Is there a program that will let me select more than one iso image and then create a bootable disk with all the distros I want on it and create a menu that will boot to the different distros?
About a month ago I decided that I would try and revive my long dead PC which, when the original hard drive failed, took out an IDE channel, leaving me with only one. The machine was built back in 2001 (maybe a month or so after XP came out) and is suffering from its age.I was able to install Fedora 12 to its hard drive by putting it into a USB hard drive cage.
You'd think I could just put the hard drive back in the machine and have everything work right? If only. The BIOS is unable to recognize the, for lack of a better term, bootability of the hard drive (it does recognize it, and I have checked the BIOS settings to make sure that it is the primary boot device). I have a reiser card in the machine and I was wondering if it is possible to create a portable bootloader cd that will just boot to the first partition of the hard drive (The reiser card is recognized and it USED to be able to boot directly to it from my BIOS, but no such luck now)
Ive decided to create a new thread because my old one had become rather complicated and now had a misleading title.
I have a laptop with Windows XP and because of a few programs I want to keep it on and dual boot with Ubuntu. I have created a boot partition at the beginning of the harddisk because I had broken the 137gb and cant keep Ubuntu at the end and still make it bootable.
The separate boot partition is at the beginning of the disk and mounted as /boot in the installation.
The system still cant boot into Ubuntu, but at least grub shows up with a decent menu and I can choose Windows. When I try to choose Ubuntu it says that it cant find the specific drive. The UUID is the same as the boot partition
So what should I do now ? Should I change fstab and move some files to the boot partition ? Id rather not move the entire Ubuntu partition to the front.
I'm running UbuntuStudio 9.10 on my Toshiba Satellite A40 Laptop... it's perfect and I love it... but, I installed it cleanly doing a reformat of the drive, and with no partition - so using as much of the newly replaced 80gb drive as possible.Now, if I want to create a partition to install WinXP as a dual boot, 1) can this be done? 2) what do I use to do it?
When I attempted to create a dual boot computer with windows by accident I erased windows so I installed ubuntu as my operating system . I have since recovered the windows partition and want to create again a dual boot system. I have down loaded GaG is there a way to install it using Ubuntu 10-10,. I would prefer not to need to re-install Ubuntu?
I just reinstalled Ubuntu from the LiveCD onto my second HDD because that was my intent originally, and I very much disliked having to choose my OS a second time before finally booting into Ubuntu.
Is there any way for me to turn these separate installations (Win7 on my first HDD, Ubuntu on my second HDD) into a nice dual boot system without reinstalling Ubuntu or am I going to have to reinstall Ubuntu?
If I do have to reinstall Ubuntu, do I tell the partition manager to load the boot loaders from Ubuntu onto the Windows drive, or do I tell it to load them onto the 100MB windows system partition? I currently just put the entire installation onto my second HDD, and then lost my dual boot option. Now I have to switch first boot device in BIOS to switch between operating systems.
I want to make a Dual Boot system completely made out of Linux. The two OS will be Fedora 15 (Gnome) and Ubuntu 11.04 (as i love the simplicity of Gnome). The question that has been striking me for quite sometime is not that if I can have both of them on a single computer but that if both of them can have a single Linux-Swap and home drive with separate root drives. Root drives for Ubuntu 11.04 might be around 10GB while that for Fedora 15 will be 20GB with 5GB of Linux-Swap (a single swap drive for both the OS) and if possible a 20GB space for the home folder common for both the OS.
I need some help creating a triple boot system, I have already installed XP and W7, now I am installing Fedora 12 (this is for work so unfortunately it has to be like that). Now the problem is that I want it to show all the partitions in GRUB. Right now it works by going to GRUB first, when selecting Windows it jumps to the Win7 boot manager.
I tried to have them all in one but it seems like the addresses I used in GRUB did not work cause it keeps directing me to the Win7 BM. BTW I am using a single drive with 3 different logical partitions.
I am currently running Windows Vista... and I want to install Ubuntu 10.10. Just wondered if anyone can tell me how to install Ubuntu alongside my Windows OS so that I can still play WoW and other windows games.
i had created a thread in desktop environment and had received no comments, so posting it here again.
Had installed ubuntu alongside windows xp in dual boot. everything was working fine untill last week.
last week i did share a folder on NTFS partition from ubuntu to be accessed by my laptop which runs XP. i could access the folder after i ran this command from terminal "sudo smbpasswd -a myusername". After this i cannot boot to windows. it shows up windows screen and reboots again. ubuntu works fine. what do i do to get back windows XP to working again?
I am trying to create a dual boot setup with Windows XP. Everything goes smoothly untill the final reboot. I get a text screen giving me the two options of booting into Windows XP or Mythbuntu. When I select Mythbuntu I get a second text screen with a rectangle only showing Windows XP as an option -nothing else. Hitting enter causes error message. If I selext the Windows XP option on the first screen system boots into windows without a problem. I suspect this should be fairly easy to fix - but being a complete noob to Linux I am lost as to what to do to correct this.
I have an 8gb USB Flash Drive. I am trying to make a Xubuntu 11.04 boot disk from it. I have done this once before with Ubuntu, but not Xubuntu. The problem is that when I go into the Startup Disk Creator, I get this error and the process stops. This is what the Flash drive file structure looks like after the process stops.
I didn't change anything; it just stopped working on boot. I've changed permissions according to messages from log files. No good.I now get messages saying "unable to open display ' '." If I set the display (I've done this several ways, the messages say "unable to open display ':0'."
Systemd is taking control of everything basic, with almost no documentation and no configuration tools at all: rationalization by lunatics.You can make a script to run commands on boot using systemd on Jessie by creating two files: the script, in any location a file in /etc/systemd/system that runs that script..My script is called james-boot.service, placed in my /home/james/.bin directory.
#! /bin/sh # this is run by /etc/systemd/system/james-boot.service # Enable with sudo systemctl enable james-boot.service # Check with sudo systemctl status james-boot.service # If it says the service is loaded, it's OK -- inactive only means it's done running.
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This file must have ownership root.root, with (apparently) permissions 664 (rw-rw-r--).After creating, enable with sudo systemctl enable james-boot. service.Check with sudo systemctl status james-boot.service. If it says the service is loaded, it's OK -- "inactive" only means it's done running.
One of my disks in my computer crashed, it was the one containing /boot and some data partitions. The other system and /home partitions were on a second disk, which is ok.
I was wondering, can I create a new /boot partition, and keep on using the rest of the system? Can I somehow do it with a chroot from a live/installer disk, run grub, and use my system again? I have another disk which I can put in the system, but there is even an unused partition on the disk which is ok (but it is rather big for /boot).
My laptop boot up time increased considerably (10 seconds) after allocating a virtual drive for virtualbox guest. The guest installation did not work so i removed it along with the virtual disk. Now everytime when i boot to ubuntu, after inputting my password in the login screen, it takes much longer to load the system. And during the loading time the disk activity indicator light blinks indicating the harddisk is actually busy loading the system.
I decided to search around for a possible answer and force reprofiling ureadahead does the trick Now boot time is back to what it used to be
I have Debian / Ubuntu / Xubuntu. I'm trying to distribute and run a Python file with the least number of clicks for the end user. How do I create a PKG file for Mac OS X on Linux?
I want to burn a dvd with some data directly without creating .iso file before burning.right now i use to create an iso file first using mkisofs or dd command and then burn using cdrecord command.But i want to know whether is it possible to directly burn dvd without creating iso first?i use following commands-
I had configured Openvpn(2.0.9) server On Centos Machine>its working fine.i had already created keys for clients.Now i want to create one more key for new client.When i tried the "./build-key user " command its showing ""Please edit the vars script to reflect your configuration,then source it with "source ./vars".Next, to start with a fresh PKI configuration and to delete any previous certificates and keys, run "./clean-all".Finally, you can run this tool (pkitool) to build certificates/keys."".
Is there Any way to add more keys without changing Existing keys.
