Unanswered Questions
1,407 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Linux Tablet: Is there a way to enter a password with onscreen keyboard to unlock a LUKS crypto device during bootup?
I just installed Linux (Ubuntu, but it does not really matter) on an x86-based tablet. I also encrypted a partition which is mounted during bootup. Of course, one usually needs to enter the password ...
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Linux Mint GUI stays black after login
Suddenly this happens:
When I boot my noteback linux mint boots to the login screen. Then after I logged in the mouse cursor is visible centered on a black background. And thats where nothing more ...
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How do I add modules, binaries or scripts to initramfs in RHEL distributions?
I have an initramfs script I developed for Debian distributions that required some extra binaries to be loaded into the image. I'm now trying to port this to RHEL distributions and I'm struggling.
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Setting the EFI Framebuffer's Resolution during boot
I've got a MSI WD-60 laptop running Gentoo. It has one of those 3840x2160 screens so I've had to setup Gnome/Firefox/IntellJ to double their DPI for anything to be readable. It all works fine except ...
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Issue while booting Kubuntu on VirtualBox: drm vmw_host_log vmwgfx error failed to send log
I have installed Kubbuntu as guest one virtualbox on Windows 10 and now when I want to boot it take a long time showing this message:
[drm:vmw_host_log [vmwgfx]] ERROR Failed to send log
What is the ...
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Make an SD card to boot the distribution image created with Yocto
I have managed to build images for my own compiled Linux kernel source code using Yocto.
Yocto has produced image files according to:
http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/...
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CentOS 7 won't start after recent update?
Last night I got some updates through yum on my CentOS virtual machine, which also updated the kernel. I tried booting it again about an hour ago, and I haven't been able to successfully start it.
I'...
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Can't boot FreeBSD on a P133 laptop
Recently, I've setup a FreeBSD 11 on a 6GB PATA 2.5" hard drive using a PATA/SATA>USB adapter and qemu on my main Arch Linux computer. FreeBSD boots OK in qemu, but when moved to my Dell Latitude XPi (...
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Black screen after booting in UEFI installation of Arch Linux
My laptop is Asus K53SV, you can find its specification here. I tried to install Arch Linux with UEFI boot method, and I stuck at a black screen after press Arch Linux archiso x86_64 UEFI CD.
Firstly, ...
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TPM passwordless boot
I'm trying to create device with CentOS6, encrypted disk (with LUKS), TPM module and TrustedGRUB to boot securely and without interaction. I'm following instructions from https://github.com/shpedoikal/...
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Is there a solution for when a system hangs on "switching to clocksource tsc" anyway?
Ok so this is exactly what I did yesterday, and what I have tried to solve the problem so far. The distribution is Ubuntu Server 12.04.
What I have done just before the error appeared
I added a new ...
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Updating kernel versions when booting from rEFInd
I'm booting from EFI using the awesome rEFInd bootloader. I've so far had to configure boot myself by manually copying over my EFI-compatible linux boot image to my EFI partition and writing a ...
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Manually copying MBR from one drive to the other GPT drive and configuring GRUB results in booting failure
I run CentOS 6.4. I have SSD 300GB for system files and RAID10 8TB for storage + backup.
SSD system drive is partitioned as follows: fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 300.1 GB, 300069052416 bytes
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GRUB command line. Have to boot manually
Somehow my grub got corrupted while updating my Pop!_OS System. I rewrote the partition, grub-install, boot-repair, I tried anything.
Well, I can boot by typing the following lines.
set prefix=(hd1,...
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grub2-install error - disk not found
I've a CentOS 7 server that isn't booting anymore, ends in grub rescue with following error:
error: disk `mduuid/7d1ea14d586da4ea38a163ecc38fa93f' not found.
I've booted into systemrescue ISO, mounted ...
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