Questions tagged [boot]
The process and events beginning with power being supplied to the processor and ending with the operating system fully loaded and ready for use. Questions about specific parts of the boot process should be tagged with, e.g. [bios].
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Restored data with rsync and getting booting issues
I freshly installed Linux Mint with no encryption to my PC and it works fine. I start it up and everything works. I then boot into a Linux USB and use rsync to copy my directories from another Linux ...
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How to revive Cubox - Marvell Sheeva (Rev 5) based [closed]
Does anybody know how to revive old Cubox? CPU is Marvell Sheeva (Rev 5) based, not IMX6! Arm CPU, I believe it runs armel, but maybe also armhf?
I have tried different old Linux systems (Kali 2017, ...
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Why isn't my NVMe drive detected after a CPU upgrade?
After upgrading my CPU from an AMD 3600 to an AMD 5800x3D my M.2 NVMe boot drive which has linux fedora on seems to have suddenly stopped being detected. It was a simple drop in replacement and I ...
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Unusual Boot Issue - Windows 10
I have windows 10 Home Edition and I generally leave my PC on round-the-clock. Today I had to restart my PC andWindows forced an update on me like usual, except this time it would not boot back. I had ...
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Trying to dual boot windows 8.1 o my windows 11 but got bsod INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR
I am a windows 11 user and want to dual boot windows 8.1. when i first time tried this, it had an error which was,"\Windows\System32\winload.efi missing" i thought it was an end but no, i ...
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My (Windows) laptop lost power for hours now it doesn't recognize the SDD as a boot disk [closed]
What can I do?
Is the disk dead? How do I know?
Should I reinstall Windows?
I can has halpz?
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Inaccessible boot device: working Windows 11 installation fails to boot via USB SATA adapter from the same disk on the same PC
I have just installed Windows 11 on a SATA SSD, updated the system, rebooted multiple times - it works fine. Now I removed this SSD, plugged it into a USB SATA adapter and tried booting from it. The ...
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Kernel Panic on boot of CentOS 7 working system on installing new NVME SSD
I have an existing CentOS 7 (7.6.1810) system running on AMD. It works well, currently running with the core O/S on a SATA SSD. I decided to attempt to add more storage by installing a new Samaung ...
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how do we recover boot for motherboard MSI PRO H510M-B. we have one long beep two short beeps
how do we recover motherboard MSI PRO H510M-B. we have one long beep two short beeps. light on VGA - indicates GPU is not detected or fail. How do we solve the problem?. memory Apacer NOX [...
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Troubleshooting white VGA LED on ASUS B550M motherboard
I'd like to ask. What can I do to fix my pc? Yesterday I turned it off as usual, but today the PC won't boot and the VGA led is constantly white.
Pc specs:
Ryzen 5 1600, stock cooler
Gtx 1050ti, ...
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How to stop my windows from booting for others? [closed]
My cousin keeps using my laptop(Windows 11). If I set a password, she will ask for it which I can't deny.
How can I do some setting in maybe BIOS or anything else so that my PC boots only when I want ...
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Dual boot - 2 windows instances - add EFI to secondary drive
I have two copies of Win 11 installed on my computer.
They are installed on separate NVME drives.
Since I cannot remove those drives physically (also cannot disable them in BIOS) - there is only a ...
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Linux fedora boot option won't appear on grub boot menu after new fedora (additional) instalation
Recently I had my fedora (39) running ok, every time I booted the pc grub boot menu jumped in asking which distro I wanted to run. Everything ok.
Then I created a new disk partition and installed a ...
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MotherBoard or NVME disc error - unclear
Recently there was a power outage, and while the PC seemed fine, woke up later to all NVME disks not being bootable.
I had a dual boot win11 and ubuntu, I was still able to access all the files on the ...
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Boot Kernel From UEFI Application
Not sure if this question is should go here or in stack overflow, but I'm writing a UEFI application to boot a custom kernel. I can test the UEFI application in QEMU and use GDB to debug and examine ...
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