Questions tagged [boot]
Use this tag if you have trouble booting Ubuntu or you have questions about the bootup process.
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Black login/logout screen on Kubuntu 22.04
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/XZbGhMJtnn/
This had me going for several days. I thought the following boot message error was the problem: [ 1.159596] hub 8-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any ...
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Boot is stuck at: FIPS check done
After enabling FIPS and seeing the -fips named vmlinuz kernel image, my boot sequence is hung at "FIPS check done" . Is there anything to do here?
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"Read Error" on boot
So my computer froze while it was in powersave mode, and I could not reboot it with REISUB, or access it over the network, forcing me to hard reboot. When I rebooted, I was greeted with the message "...
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Keyboard unresponsive after sleep: Dell Inspiron 15 3000 running kubuntu 22.04 lts
lately I'm having a problem which is whenever i put the laptop to sleep and open it again the keyboard is not working and only when i restart the laptop does it work, how can i fix this?
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Ubuntu server not showing free space tab
I tried to install Ubuntu Server on my laptop to dual boot with Windows 11. Everything went great until the part of storage configuration. I can see the local drive with the Windows partitions, but I ...
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Ubuntu not booting due to iwlwifi error-WRT: Invalid buffer destination
I updated Ubuntu 22.04.4 to 6.5.0-21 kernel update, since then I am unable to boot up into Ubuntu. While boot up, there is the error iwlwifi WRT: Invalid buffer destination
I tried to boot into ...
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Ubuntu not showing up in boot menu after first installation
I just installed Ubuntu using a USB. Everything was fine and it installed and said that the computer needed to restart. After restarting, it booted straight to Windows. I tried opening the boot menu ...
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Find and change Default Start Firefox Ubuntu 22.04
this is my first post here, so apologize for any mistakes.
I am creating a script to customize an image of Ubuntu 22.04 and I also need to define the Firefox home page.
The first problem is that under ...
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How to set USB flash drive as first boot device in dell inspiron 15
i m trying to install ubuntu on Dell Inspiron 15 using USB flash drive using USSB installer. But in booting sequence there are only two boot options. Legacy boot and UEFI boot mode. Can anyone tell me ...
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How do I create a multi-bootable SD card?
I am looking to make a backup & rescue micro-SD card for Microsoft Surface Pro 2 which has a micro-SD slot built-in. I probably won't be able to choose just one solution to use as a rescue disk, ...
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Is it possible to have linux kernel >5.4 in the netboot mini.iso of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS?
I see that latest netboot mini.iso of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) still has kernel version 5.4.0-42 which is quiet old.
Is it possible to have the same netboot mini.iso with newer kernel, for ...
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issue in autoinstall Ubuntu server 22.04 using raid1 on m2
I tried to install Ubuntu server 22.04 (even with the latest daily version 24.04) using the autoinstall process, to get a bootable raid 1 configuration, using two 2TB m2 disks.
The process keeps ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 restarting by itself after shutdown
I know there are already plenty questions here related to this one, but I can't find an answer which solves my problem.
I've installed a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 on a Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF. And now I'm ...
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Libisofs build error when using xorriso
Currently, I am trying to build Ubuntu 24.04 with xorriso, but failed with following error output.
The Ubuntu I used is a daily build version: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/noble-...
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Unable to Access BIOS or Boot Manager via HDMI Output on Laptop Running Ubuntu
I recently broke the screen on my laptop and have been using a secondary monitor connected via HDMI. However, I've encountered an issue where I'm unable to access the BIOS or boot manager on the ...
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How to fix my kali linux machine that won't show the Windows dual boot [closed]
When I installed kali linux and created dual boot for windows and linux, my windows partition isn't showing on the grub bootloader. The options are just Run kali linux and Advanced options. I've tried ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Boot-repair error Locked-ESP detected
I am using boot-repair from a live ubuntu session to recover my OS and getting the error-
Locked-ESP detected. You may want to retry after creating a /boot/efi partition (FAT32, 100MB~250MB, start ...
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Ubuntu takes much time to boot cause of cleaning orphaned inodes
So usually my system boots almost instantly (I have a fast SSD)
but for some time now after some freezes that seem to now to have disappeared it used to take like 2 minutes or so maybe more to the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 stuck in emergency mode
I force reboot my laptop after a fail in the installation of a printer. I remember before rebooting that I used stacer to clean the cache, logs, and removed some snapd packages using it also.
Now my ...
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Cannot enter GUI with "finished wait until snapd is fully seeded"
I just do apt update and apt upgrade and now I can't enter GUI mode after booting (Yes, I can enter tty1-6 via Ctrl+Alt+F2). The last uprade is about the kernel, I think. Note that this error may ...
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Detect and fix slow startup on Ubuntu 20.04
I'm lately having slow startup times (90sec vs 20sec in the past) since I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04.
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 64-bit. I'm working on a hybrid SSD (120GB) + HHD (500GB) ...
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Problem with system
I have a Raspberry Pi 5 with Ubuntu server 23.10 on it. After starting raspberry and waiting a while, I get this message:
[2691.397776] I/0 error. dev mmcblk0. sector 3780496 op 0x1: (WRITE) flags ...
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Grub screen when trying to boot Ubuntu
I had this problem in the past. This is the third time I reinstall Ubuntu on my laptop.
Everything works fine but then suddenly(it could be after 1 month or 6 months) my laptop starts freezing and ...
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Failure reading sector 0x1036800 from hd0
error:Failure reading sector 0x1036800 from hd0
I turned on the laptop and that message has shown on display ....
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GRUB doesn't load to menu
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 next to Windows 11. After I extended my main disk I cant seem to load in GRUB2 Menu (Before i was able to) I found a disk (hd0,gpt1) which has grub.cfg. I have tried ...
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Dual Boot Linux/OSX with Shared Partition
How do I create a shared partition on a dual-boot OSX/Linux such that both have read/write access to that partition?
It's a MacBook 2015 running OSX 12.7.3. [edit] I would use the most recent version ...
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How to anti-solve the "ima: error communicating to tpm chip" error?
I've read:
How to solve "ima: error communicating to tpm chip" messages during boot
and basically, people suggest I make sure my machine's TPM support is enabled.
Well, I certainly don't ...
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After installing Ubuntu on a blank disk it won't boot
I tried to install a fresh Ubuntu (18.04.3) on my new ASUS UX301LA internal drive. Previously, there was Ubuntu installed, but on an old disk. After struggling with problems booting the live USB (...
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I have two monitors connected to my computer, the computer only boots if one of them is disconnected. how can I fix it?
I have two monitors. The main monitor that I want it to boot to is AOC and the side monitor is Samsung. When I turn on my computer I get a black screen on both monitors. I can get around this by ...
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How to fix error "Failed to start: Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video0"
I'm a beginner Ubuntu user, using version 20.04. Ubuntu randomly black-screened on me today when I wasn't doing much, I just had Firefox and Discord open. I held the power button on my laptop down to ...
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Stuck at initramfs, no results on exit command
On booting my 64 bit machine running ubuntu 20.04 I am getting the following error:
BusyBox v1.30.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.30.2-4ubuntu6.1 built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
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Can't access Ubuntu or windows only by entering the right BIOS password
I have installed Ubuntu last version on a external hard drive last night , I did my first steps for about 2 hours .
Today I tried to re-open again but the computer asked me to give the BIOS password ...
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kvm_amd: SVM disabled (by bios) error on boot
I installed Ubuntu on my windows laptop a couple of months ago, just today it decided it wasn't going to boot up, I get like 3 errors and the boot process freezes,
/dev/sda5: recovering journal
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ntfs partition got stuck in hibernation (I believe) and I need to recover it or fix it somehow
TL;DR: The drive is hibernated? I cannot delete the hiberfil-file on the drive, as it is read only.
Ok, I'm not the most tech-savvy guy. So I'm trying my best to explain what I believe happened:
I had ...
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efibootmgr creates an entry in which DevPath is set to Venhw istead of PciRoot
Hello I have a big problem because you see when I use efibootmgrto create a boot entry it just makes a unbootable japanese character in the EFI boot menu and this is very bad.
On the other hand when ...
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How to change the boot order for 2 ubuntu systems sharing same Grub?
The efibootmgr is not showing 2 ubuntu system but the Grub GNU does show 2 ubuntu systems, how can I change the boot order to bring the second ubuntu higher on the order as it my primary system?
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DHCP is not working
I am using 14.04 and installed isc-dhcp-server in my Ubuntu. Here is my DHCP configuration:
INTERFACES="eth0"
allow booting;
allow bootp;
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 get's stuck in a grey screen with mouse curser after login
My Ubuntu 23.04 install boots normal, but after I log into my user account it gets stuck at an grey screen and does not react to any input anymore. If I boot into recovery mode and select fsck and ...
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Boot error: "shim_lock protocol not found" and "you need to load the kernel first"
I have an Asus laptop, model X555LI, with Ubuntu 23.10 on it. This is a secondary PC and I rarely use it, however, last week I used it and everything worked normally. I turned it off as always and now,...
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Ubuntu server not wanting to load after first prompt (first setup)
loads up and opens to the selection menu I click on try Ubuntu or install then it just shows an underscore blinking and nothing happens. this is on an older laptop but this seems to be off.
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Cannot boot into the notebook (could not open efi boot fallback.efi 14)
I'm trying to install an Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 in dual boot with Windows 10 (already installed).
I've tried with a bootable USB drive and an USB DVD drive (my notebook has no optical drive), but every ...
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How do I get my Mac to boot from an Ubuntu USB key?
If you select "USB" and "Mac" on this download page, it gives a series of command line instructions to make a USB key which the MacBook will boot into Ubuntu from.
I've followed them to the letter ...
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HOWTO create UEFI/BIOS bootable ISO
I've noted that the Ubuntu ISO file is bootable on systems with BIOS and with UEFI. I've remastered Ubuntu from scratch and I'd like my ISO file to be bootable in both cases.
My remastering of ...
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Can't boot normally or into recovery mode (Ubuntu 18.04)
I have Ubuntu 18.04 running on my desktop. It has been working fine for months, but crashed today while playing a video game.
Now when I try to boot it gets stuck at the purple screen before the ...
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Anyone know how to fix this?
I recently got an old Dell Optiplex 3040 Slim and tried installing Ubuntu using a USB. It was fully installed, and after it was done it asked for me to reboot the computer and the installation will be ...
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Service Active: inactive (dead)
This is the script:
#!/bin/bash
setterm --blank 1 --powerdown 2
This is the service:
[Unit]
Description=Blank screen after 1 min and turn it off after 2 min. Any keypress will turn it back on.
After=...
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I'd like to know how to debug my Ubuntu boot sequence since some of my later GRUB boot options will not boot, they just hang, "for ever"
Some ubuntu linux kernels don't boot while others do. Would like to find out why and hence get information on how to debug, if possible.
When I boot my Ubuntu some GRUB entries will not boot, e.g.:
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Can't shutdown ubuntu 20.04
Everything was working fine, but suddenly i can't shutdown my ubuntu system. I've tried manually and from terminal but there is no difference. I also tried to change the grub file : sudo gedit etc/...
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Install Ubuntu onto Surface Pro 3 microsd without dual boot
I have a surface pro 3 and I would like to install ubuntu (22.04) onto a microsd card in the easiest most risk free way possible. I don't need dual booting. I would prefer to manually select the boot ...
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Make an Ubuntu bootable USB drive for a PC using Mac?
I have a netbook that I want to install Ubuntu onto. I do have a good Mac computer that I can make a bootable USB drive from, but I'm confused on how to go about making it.
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