Ubuntu Installation :: Stuck In BIOS -Verifying DMI Pool Data
May 20, 2011
I was dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 till recently. Then I had to reinstall Windows. After re-installation of Windows I did not try to restore Grub and deleted Ubuntu partitions on disk thinking that I'll install newer Natty version. But now when I try to install Ubuntu 11.04 using pen drive it gets stuck in bios showing message "Verifying DMI pool data ....". I also tried to boot GParted, memtest and Windows 7 with the same pen drive. Same thing occurred with GParted and memtest but Windows 7 installation did not stuck and went as usual. So I guess it's not hardware.
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Dec 24, 2010
I installed ubuntu 10.10 on a machine that had windows 7 x64. itts installed on a seperate HD, but now when I boot to the harddrive with windows 7 all i get is "verifying DMI pool data" how do I fix this so I can get back to windows 7 as well?
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May 5, 2011
I was a windows XP user and one fine day my windows crashed and blue screen of death appeared. I have downloaded Ubuntu and created an ISO image on my pendrive with the help of the another computer as per the steps mentioned on the linux website. Now when am tryin to boot my corrupt PC with pendrive i cannot move beyond the comment " verifying DMI pool data" nothing happens later.
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Oct 18, 2009
I had Fedora11 (default layout) running on a separate hard drive (winXP on the other drive). After the FC drive failure I replaced the drive and did a fresh install again. This time I tried a custom layout to keep the /home on a separate partition. The installation went without a hitch, but on first boot the system hangs with "Verifying DMI Pool Data......"
XP boots fine though. Looks like grub doesn't get loaded. I can boot with the installation cd and get into recovery mode, everything seems fine on the fedora disk. Fdisk result:
Grub.conf:
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Nov 26, 2010
I recently removed windows 7 from my computer and am now only using ubuntu. I used a live cd to grow the partition to use the new available space, but now the system just hangs at the Verifying DMI pool data section of bios. This is usually the first thing before grub loads.
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Feb 18, 2011
I've recently tried to do a full install to a USB stick using a 10.04 cd.
2 things happen as I boot:
1. if Hdds are attached, boot hangs on "checking dmi pool data..."
2. if hdds not attached, "hdd error" scrolls across screen
boots normally w/o the usb stick. I've set up my partitions on usb stick as
1: fat32 2gb <<windows/storage
2: fat32 1.5gb << future persistent install
3: ext4 4gb << hoped-for full install
1 is the first partition so windows finds it nicely. Before install, i unplugged my hdds so that grub wouldn't get confused. I told the installer to put the full install on sda3 with no swap space. I checked (advanced button on summary page) that bootloader is being installed to the usb on dev/sda (sda since no other drives attached). This should put it in the MBR (i think?)
Seems like I pressed all the right buttons huh? Is there a way to diagnose grub and see what's wrong? is there a reason grub may not initialize properly from a usb drive?
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Jan 31, 2016
I created my data pool using /dev/disk/by-id and things went well. a recent view of zpool status however showed /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc being used instead. how can I be sure a rearrangement of my disks wont cause error?
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Feb 21, 2011
I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 on a Dell Latitude 1001 laptop which has XP installed. I have selected the option for Ubuntu to run alongside Windows but, on selecting the Ubuntu option at boot up, the installation stalls at "Verifying the Installation Configuration". Before this window came up, a very brief text message flashed on the screen - something like "getpwuid failed" (it was on the screen for only a second or less, so I didn't have chance to note it down. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what may be wrong (I have never used Ubuntu so please make any suggestions very simple).
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Jun 19, 2011
When I boot up my desktop, lilo spends more than a minute printing a string of dots to the screen, before it declares "Bios data check successful" and then loads slackware normally.
I did
Code:
echo compact >> /etc/lilo.conf
lilo
but lilo declared that to be a syntax error and is as slow as ever. My lilo/conf contains
Code:
# LILO configuration file
[Code]....
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Feb 25, 2011
I was just reading about the whole boot process on computers and am curious as to why the BIOS can only read and execute code and data from only cylinder 0, track 0 and sector 1 of the disk being booted from? Why can't the BIOS read from any other disk location?
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Jan 5, 2011
Dell Inspiron E1405 - 160 GB drive with 2 partitions - I think only 1 partition was used for windows and ubuntu Used wubi to install 10.04 - both XPP and 10.04 worked fine after repairing the XP install My boyfriend used Referencer (.reflib) in Ubuntu 10.04 to organize and tag about 900 documents. He spent around 9 hours on the project and its VERY IMPORTANT. I am a dumb ***, forgot the project was on the computer and updated to 10.10 via update manager without it backing up. Now I cant boot to XPP or Ubuntu - "error: no such device:", "grub rescue" My main concern is getting the data back. I would rather uninstall WUBI and install Ubuntu on the 2nd partition (wish I would have done this in the first place but 10.04 was my first Ubuntu install and I didn't know any better). I have to get this data back! I have tried the following and cant locate the referencer (.reflib) file or the .docs and .jpgs booted to USB using my 10.10 netbook remix USB install USB stick - I can see the windows files pulled the HD out and connected it to my Ubuntu netbook, an XPH and W7 computers -cant locate data
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Mar 25, 2010
I've a problem which occurs during the boot process.I'll turn on the machine and Slackware (13) will begin loading. I'll get the "BIOS data check successful message" and then the screen will go black. Nothing happens after that. This doesn't happen every time I boot and other than that, Slackware works fine.I'm guessing it's the video card. Uname and lspci output to follow.
uname -r: 2.6.29.6-smp
lspci -vv:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM
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Nov 20, 2010
I just started dual booting Ubuntu 10.10 on my mini 10v with OS X a couple days ago, so I'm still pretty new to Linux.
But anyhow, I was attempting to change my User ID number so I could access the files in my User folder on my OS X partition. So, I tried entering the following commands:
sudo usermod -u 501 yourusername
sudo chown -R 501 /home/yourusername
Of course, smart me should've realized I should've been logged out and on a different administrative account to do this. But I didn't, and I believe the second command didn't work. So, whatever, I thought I'd try logging out and logging in as root.
So, I logged out, tried logging in as root, and of course, no dice because I didn't know the password. So then I tried logging onto my account and upon logging in, I got two errors. One was about ".ICEauthority" and I didn't keep track of what the other one was.
Great. So I did a quick google for the error, then tried entering these codes:
$ sudo chown user:user home/user/.ICEauthority
$ sudo chmod 664 /home/user/.ICEautority
$ exit
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And again, I think the last one didn't work. So, I looked up how to login as root, changed the password and logged in as root successfully. Then, whilst in root, I entered:
/usr/sbin/usermod -u 12345 joeuser
/usr/bin/find / -user 701 -print | xargs -t chown joeuser
/usr/bin/find / -user 701 -exec chown joeuser {} ;
Upon entering those, I logged out and logged back into my account and everything was a complete success. No error messages anywheres AND I could access the files in my Mac user folder.
So, here's my question. How can I make sure I have all the right permissions I need? Or do I already have the all of the permissions I had before changing my user id?
Did those last three lines of code I entered "override" all of the codes I had entered previously? I just want to make sure verify I have all the correct permissions necessary so I don't run into any issues later on.
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Sep 23, 2010
I got this working before, but now I have a freshly installed Ubuntu 10.04 and I wanna play yahoo pool and I followed all those crazy insane commands they posted but they (java) didn't help at all, their support and help is really poor as I get errors like directory does not exist or no such file. I basically installed the jre-6u21-linux-i586.bin file in my home directory like and used all their commands like cd /home and all that. Here is my ls output they say always to check, but it seems like I installed it but I can't get it installed with firefox together.
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Mar 1, 2010
I am reasonably technical but new to Linux. I almost guarantee there will be simple things that I don't understand. I am trying to get a USB wireless adaptor working with aircrack-ng and have managed to find that I should have the mac80211 drivers installed and active to support the rtl8187L and B chips. (I also need to patch them apparently, but first things first).
I am working with Ubuntu 8.04LT (I am fairly sure) and do not seem at the moment to be able to update to a more recent version on the target machine. The kernel is 2.6.24-27. I followed instructions to blacklist the r8187 and ieee80211 modules, which seemed to go quite smoothly.
I now need to get the mac80211 module loaded, but can't find out how. The information at Aircrack-ng and related sites seems to indicate that I expect the drivers to be already in my build of Ubuntu but they do not seem to be loading. The suggestion seems to be that they will load automatically. I have found some stuff in /lib/modules/2.6.22-14 and /lib/modules/2.6.22-27, and also in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-27 which is probably relevant but I don't know what if anything to do with it. If anyone needs more detailed information, just tell me what you need to know, and how to get it.
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May 26, 2011
Is there a way in svn to verify if an already existing file tree that "should"be at a given revision is in fact correct at that revision?I had an earlier revision and obtains patches via svn diff for subsequent revisions, and applied them up to a given revision (or head). Now consider that perhaps some error happened during the application of these patches, or perhaps a file just got corrupted. What I would want to do is just verify if the tree I have now at this revision is the exactly tree I would get at this revision ... without actually pulling down the whole revision.Note, I want to do this for exports, not for checkouts. That may make it simpler since the result of svn diff seems to only be for the actual data files.
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Aug 3, 2010
I have a question regarding OpenVPN. I have configured my own vpn server. It is in a private network 192.168.0.0. The ip addresses I am using for the vpn connection are in the 10.9.1.0 network but I want to connect my ovpn clinets to the 192.168.0.0 network. I read the manuals and I think the "push route" command will work for me, but I cannot understand fully the description of the command "push route".
# Push routes to the client to allow it to reach other private subnets behind the server.
# Remember that these private subnets will also need to know to route the OpenVPN client
# Address pool (10.8.0.0/255.255.255.0) back to the OpenVPN server.
;push "route 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0"
;push "route 192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0"
So the questions:
1. These private subnets behind the server are routed from my vpn server or from another router
2. How these private subnets "know to route" the open vpn address pool, is this a configuration of the router for this networks (192.168.0.0)or ?
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Dec 26, 2009
I've been having trouble writing to DVDs on one computer, and I am trying to figure out whetgher the problem is hardware or software related, or, perhaps, both. The brasero CD/DVD writer puts the md5 checksums of each of the original files in a hidden file on the DVD. I think it then calculates the sums of the copies and compares, but the last time I did it, it told me it had permission problems with the drive, and that failed. When I put the DVD in, udev finds it and mounts it in /media with me as its owner. Apparently, brasero mounted it some other way, and presumably that caused the problem.
Secondly, after I brought it up again, I went into the /media mount point and did md5sum on the files there. One of them a gzipped tar file, produced and input/output error. Yet if I use cmp to compare that file with the original it finds no difficulty. So what is going on? Finally, I have tried to write shell scripts which use cmp to compare the original files with the copies. The general form is
cd XXXX
find $* >> /tmp/X
for i in `cat /tmp/X`
do
cmp $i YYYY/$i
done
where XXX is the mount point in /media and YYY is the original directory containing the relevant files. This works fine except that if the file names have spaces in them, the shell script treats each word as a new file name. So I need some way to arrange things so that `cat /tmp/X` returns the complete file name. Nothing I've tried works.
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Mar 30, 2010
Is there a command that can be run to verify that a users cron job has run successfully?
Platform is Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
I have scripts in /home/useraccount/bin/
running
crontab -l
While logged in as user results in:
# m h dom mon dow command
@hourly /home/useraccount/bin/script_1
@hourly /home/locateruser/bin/script_2
I realize scripts could send email or write to a log with a timestamp, but wondering if there is just a way to verify it ran from the command line.
I ran
ps -ef|grep cron
... and it shows
root 4358 1 0 Mar12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron
Not sure if this indicates it is running the jobs though....
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Aug 7, 2010
how to configure samba share that users from ip pool (for example 192.168.1.200-210) have accest without login and rest users form ip pool (192.168.1.2-199 and 192.168.1.211-254) have to past autorization.
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May 9, 2011
I'm trying to create a torrent file via the command line. I used "transmisson-create", but since the .torrent file is binary I can't read it using "less" or "nano". Is there a way of verifying that the torrent I created was correctly done? I know I could probably upload the .torrent file to my public server and then use another torrent client to test, but I simply want to see what's inside the .torrent file to verify that it got all the files I wanted. I cd'd into the directory with the files that I want to torrent and ran the following command.
Code:
$ transmission-create -p -t http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce *
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Apr 30, 2011
opensuse v11.3
linux 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop x86_64
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All this has left me with an uneasy feeling about the contents of the DVD created from the ISO. Is there a way to test the DVD contents?
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Mar 10, 2011
I need with some iptables rules. I've done all I can, Googling all over, to cover as many exploits as possible and the following script is what I've come up with. The current set up works and I've checked with NMAP. I just need some sort of confirmation that this is pretty much what I can do.
Code:
LAN="eth0 eth1"
RANGE=10.1.0.0/17
WAN=eth2
# Delete all existing rules
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Also, if I wanted a broadcast to be relayed to all subnets within a defined range, how would such a iptables rule look like? I need this in order to find a networked Canon MP640 printer.
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Dec 4, 2015
Sometime system wait during boot a long time on
Code: Select allrandom: nonblocking pool is initialized and Code: Select allPM: Starting manual resume from disk etc.
When everything is ok boot took around 20seconds. But when this problem occur it can take around 5 minutes. It occure during normal boot, but there are some information about resume from hibernation in log. But I didn't hibernate it. And hibernation doesn't work reliably so I removed uswsusp because I tried to fix hibernation with installing uswsusp first.
My laptop: MSI EX600X-033Sk (C2D T5250, Nvidia 8400g, It has firewire, usb2.0, ...)
I tried to google stuff like "Jessie slow boot", "Stack on random: nonblocking pool is initialized" etc but I didn't found any solution.
Here is few parts of my kern.log:
Code: Select allDec 2 21:27:57 MSI-EX600X-033SK kernel: [ 1.950232] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 468862128 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/223 GiB)
Dec 2 21:27:57 MSI-EX600X-033SK kernel: [ 1.952800] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Dec 2 21:27:57 MSI-EX600X-033SK kernel: [ 1.955190] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Dec 2 21:27:57 MSI-EX600X-033SK kernel: [ 1.955218] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
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Aug 5, 2010
following are my Linux router information
eth1= WAN IP= 110.88.89.66/32
Gateway= 110.88.89.65
eth0= LAN IP= 192.168.1.1/24
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
MASQUERADE all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
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My ISP gave me IP Pool 110.88.90.68/29 to use this on my LAN. my question is how can I use this IP pool on LAN side interface. i think now its simple. 192.168.1.0 /24 is my LAN network and I can not change this, because i have near 180 PCs on my LAN.
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Apr 22, 2011
I am managing a PBX which runs redhat enterprise linux. The time on it is always getting out of sync, which causes the time on the phones to display incorrectly. I can't figure out for the life of me why the time keeps changing. How can I set it to update it's time every day or two? I don't want to hit ntp.org every day, as is recommended. What's the recommended interval for connecting to the ntp pool? The kernel is Linux 2.6.9-67.0.4 (from uname -a)
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Apr 27, 2011
I want to download the dev snapshot of Synfig from SourceForge
[URL]
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Apr 17, 2010
I am trying to install Ubuntu 9.10 on a laptop. The laptop does not have working cd-rom or an operating system installed. I was hoping to install via USB cd-rom. The bios is an old one and will not allow booting from USB. Does anyone know of a way for me to install?
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May 15, 2011
I need to restrict users if their download file size exceeds xxx amount, set later download speed to "256kbps".
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Squid 3.1.8
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May 24, 2010
My used OS:
Linux version 2.6.18.8.xs5.5.0.13.442
(gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21))
After executing
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