I just updated my server from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 and now it cannot go past grub, at boot time, it would "give up waiting for root device", asking me to check whether I gave the right "root=..." or if I should increase the "rootdelay=..." in the command line argument and end up with the initramfs.
The machine is a Dell Poweredge 2900 with a HW RAID controller (I hope that should not matter, but just in case...). I tried to follow the instructions there to make sure grub is setup correctly, but without any luck.
Below is the output from the bootinfoscript (while running on the LiveCD). Anybody has any idea what can be the problem or what I could do to debug this ? I am running out of ideas.
A friend of mine upgraded his pc to ubuntu 10.04. Sadly enough we ran into issues with his graphics card, which apparently doesnt work well with lucid. We decided to downgrade to 9.10. I did this by installing over the old partition and chose to import the settings from the old account.The problems started when the pc booted for the first time:The list of kernels in grub2 was the one from 10.04.Somehow grub2 from the old installation seems to be still around and messes everything up. Any ideas how I could fix this?
I am using Fedora12. I installed the following packages: openldap-servers-2.4.19-1.fc12.x86_64 openldap-clients-2.4.19-1.fc12.x86_64 openldap-2.4.19-1.fc12.x86_64 db4-4.7.25-13.fc12.x86_64
I've been using conky for some time now, and I haven't changed conkyrc for a while. However, when I installed lucid (fresh install) conky starts wrong with ubuntu, like in a glass box that overlaps any window. The weird thing is that if I kill conky and start it over again manually (without the script in preferences->startup applications) it is OK. Screenshots: [URL].
I loaded GRUB, and now when I reboot it goes straight into the 'grub>' command line. Initially GRUB had the root as (hd0,2), whereas the boot is on (hd0,1)...(hd0,2) is my '/home' partition, and (hd0,1) is my '/' partition... So on a bootup I ran...
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root (hd0,1) setup (hd0)
Now when I boot I still get the 'grub>' command line, but now the root is correct.
From 'grub>' I can type...
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grub> configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
GRUB will then show the menu, and I can click the listings to load them. All's fine, but why doesn't GRUB just load the menu.lst without my prompting? How can I automate this process of typing 'configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst' each time I boot?
I just upgrade to F14 from F10 on a dual montor setup. Firefox behaives differently on F14 than on F10. On F10 it followed the mouse pointer's location and show up on the correct monitor
When maximized at close, it is always displayed on the left monitor. When not maximized at close it will open on the monitor where the mouse pointer is located.
About minimize/maximize Firefoxe before closing and it seems to work in some case, but not for me.
I am using Debian Jessie x64 with XFCE 4.10: Code: Select allnickolay@nickolay-pc:~$ uname -a Linux nickolay-pc 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-2 (2015-04-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux
And am having a problem with dockbarx.
Whenever I try to launch it as a regular user, I get:
I just installed Lenny base and added Fluxbox as wm. I can start Fluxbox from root with "startx" command but only get a light blue screen that is frozen if I try to start Fluxbox from the command line user ID using "startx." I think that it might be an ownership problem but I'm not sure what files I should change the owrnship of, if any. Some of the in installation of fluxbox was done from the root directory instead of from the user directory using the sudo command.
After upgrading to Lucid, gnome-terminal and xterm both start in the root directory (/); I'd like for them to start in my home directory instead. I had added "cd /home/myname" to the end of .bashrc, and this worked well as a temporary fix, but was never necessary in Karmic. Furthermore, modifying .bashrc in this way renders Nautilus' "Open in Terminal" menu item useless, as it still opens the home directory instead of the folder Nautilus was viewing.
I have Windows Vista in a primary partition & Fedora 14 in a logical partition.
Recently, I increased the size of the extended partition and created another logical partition inside it. I formatted the new logical partition from Vista.
After reboot, instead of the list of operating systems, I started getting "grub>"
I searched on the internet and modified entries in /boot/grub/grub.conf, from (hd0,4).. to (hd0,5)..
I still get the grub prompt, but if I enter " configfile (hd0,5)/boot/grub/menu.lst " it shows the os list & I can use Fedora.
How can I configure the system so that it shows the list of os instead of "grub>" ?
I'm running 10.10 on a Compaq Presario M2000 laptop and when I boot the laptop I have to choose which kernel I want to run.
Code: GNU GRUB version 1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3 Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-28-generic Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-28-generic (recovery mode) Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.35-22-generic (recovery mode)
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(initramfs) I do have some command line functionality to where I was able to find out where the file system is located. My problem at this point is I want to try and recover some documents that were on one of the 2 user accounts and either fixing the installation so either user can normally log in or if I have to, reinstall 10.10 onto the HDD.
I'm connected to the internet using a wireless router. Each time I boot, I have to grant root privileges and type in a shell: iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys key dhclient wlan0 Isn't there a file(or location) that I can modify to automatically grant root privileges and execute these commands when debian starts? Something like autoexec.bat in windows.
Something else I'd like to mention is when I execute iwconfig.... for the first time, I get this incomplete result:
IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"linksys" Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key*********** Power Management:off
Had 3 partitions on a hard disk. Booted vista & deleted the windows 7 partition & then expanded the vista partition into the windows 7 partition. Vista kept working but when i rebooted grub starts to load & gets an error 17. How do i recover?
Previously grub would come up & give me the choice of ubuntu or vista. If i selected vista i got the choice of vista or windows 7.
I have windows Vista and Ubuntu 9.04 on my asus laptop and use grub as boot manager. I tried to reinstall windows vista with the recovery CD delivered with my laptop in order to just get rid of the old installations. The Installation was OK, however when rebooting windows doesn't come up printing the error could not load GRUB Error 22.
Now I think I should remove grub from teh master boot record, and the system will supposedly work.My question is is this a solution and how do I reformat the master boot record? Can I do it with the Ubuntu instalation CD?
Because I am using one of the new WD disks I am trying to aling my root partition with the real sectors, as described here:[URL]31So I copied all files to a temp location, deleted my partition (/dev/sda3), recreated it a few cylinders later (same name) and copied the files to the newly created partition. But now when I try to boot, I get my old grub menu but after selecting my kernel version it hangs
I am learning Linux administration and I am new in this area. Currently I am trying to find out which drive has grub.conf file. Following commands giving me correct output (hd0,0):
I just happened to lock myself out of ssh access on my xen virtual server since I changed the ssh port but forgot to open it in the firewall. No problem, I just access it through VNC in VM manager, I thought, however I have some special chars in my root password and the keymap through VNC seems to have changed somehow. So I cant login as root, nor do su or sudo. I can login as user. I need the sign " but can't figure out how.
When I look for specific info about what is taking the space using du command I get that the space used by the root system is 7.2Gb. I get to the same conclusion when checking the space with Nautilus.
I'm really struggling to be able to boot into my Linux partion, so I'm gonna stop just taking stabs in the dark and ask for help.
My drive layout is:
750 GB : (sda) Data | Linux | Linux Swap
1 TB: (sdb) Weird Windows 100MB Drive | Windows <--- Primary in BIOS (Booted from)
For all intents and purposes my 1TB is my primary but because of how I plugged them in, that is sdb.
Installed Fedora once, but didn't see the bootloader, realised it was because I had installed it on sda and my BIOS was set to boot off sdb.
Installed Fedora again, this time successfully getting the boot loader, but when choosing Windows I was presented with "BOOTMGR.exe" not found. During bootloader setup I told it sdb1 was my Windows partition..?
Now I've just run a BOOTREC.exe from the recovery console, but obviously kissing goodbye to GRUB in the process.
The issue I have now is I got GRUB wrong twice with a GUI, I don't think I stand much chance doing it text based in a recovery console.
use Fedora 15. I had installed driver for my ATI graphic card, as it was written in Fedora guide, then when I rebooted the system the bars and icons appeared with strange, changed colours (purple, green, etc). I've read that this happened because of the bad drivers, so I tried to fix it. Unfortunatelly because I'm Linux newbie and I'm also very nervous I deleted (using Fedora software manager) everything connectedtalyst from my system.Now when I try to start my computer, grub starts in text mode.My question is:What can I do? Do I have to reinstall my system or maybe someone knows how to fix it?I'm quite scared because now I can't launch not only Fedora but also Windows.(I'm writing from another computer
Now that I have my Netbook up and running again and all my settings in, what is the best way of doing things so I don't have to keep installing and setting things up? I have a 255 Gig Partition on an external HD. how to do it so it copies ALL of my setup onto that Partition. Do I do a Copy, Backup or Image? What is the best program to use? So all I have to do is copy ALL the directories and files from that partition to the Netbook and then reboot. Will it include copying all the Grub menu stuff that starts up when you first boot up?
A while ago I moved partitions from sda1 to sda6 because the original partition wasnt big enough. So when I update grub (now grub 2) it resets everything to sda1 and I've no idea how its doing it. Does anyone know where grub 2 gets the default partition from or does it just select sda1 automatically?
I have two versions of Ubuntu on my computer - 10.04 and an earlier one that i no longer use. I'd like to free up the space that the old partition is taking, but the computer boots from the grub menu.lst of that old version. How can I make the boot process use the menu.lst in the 10.04 partition?
where is the boot process situated anyway and how can you get at it?
However, I think grub may have installed to my media drive and not my main HD.
Here is the output of fdisk -l:
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dev/sda1 is my media drive and I think during setup grub-install may have been automatically run on /dev/sda1. If this is the case,
1) How can I remove grub from sda1 and install it on sdb? 2) Should it be on sdb1 or sdb2? 3) Can I change the naming so my main drive is sda and my media drive is sdb?
My soundcard seems to have problems working with a certain game in windows xp so I decided to create a different installation of windows xp to use with onboard sound drivers instead. I had a backup of my clean current install on a dvd, so thought I would use this to speed up the procedure. I have two hard drives - the sata has my normal windows boot on and my ext4 ubuntu installation. The id drive has only files on. So I decided to shrink the partion on the ide drive using gparted and then create a new primary partition. I then installed my backup to this newly created partition.
At first it did not appear in the boot manager. Then I did a sudo update-grub and it now does, however whichever windows installation I now select from the grub, it always seems to boot into the same (old) installation, rather than the new one I installed from a backup. How I can actually get it to boot into this new installation? It might be due to windows boot ini settings or disc / partition flags or whatever, as I tried fiddling with those.
