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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Why do my Raspberry Pi 5 SD cards have unwritable partition tables?
I have 2 SD cards. Both flashed with Raspberry Pi OS. However, I started to have issues wiping the partition table on both the SD card after failed to flash a brand new Raspberry Pi to the SD.
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Using Visual BCD
I am sure this is a very naive question. But:
My Dell Windows 10 laptop won't boot from an internal drive. It boots fine from an external drive. It calls that external drive C: and it calls the ...
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How to Use a Boot Disk USB for Mac Silicon if the client deleted there Macintosh HD Drive already?
The Only thing that comes up when I boot up the MacBook is the "Options" setting when trying to do disk recovery, and from there it won't do anything further, and the wheel keeps on a'...
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Windows won't boot off internal drives but boots fine off external drives
I am running Windows 10 on a Dell Inspiron laptop.
Today I changed the battery. When I went to boot up afterward, I got a blue screen with error # 0xc000000e . I don't know whether this was caused ...
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Why can’t a USB flash drive be recognized when plugged into the laptop?
I used USB flash drive to install Windows 11 into a laptop. When I went to Windows Setup screen, in the "Choose the boot driver " tab it said:
Windows can’t be installed on driver 0 ...
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How to boot from a USB device on Lenovo ThinkPad T14s?
When the computer turns on, I press F12 to get to the boot menu, but only the NVMe device is listed as shown below, although I have connected my bootable USB device (containing Windows 11 installation)...
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Dell PC16250 laptop keyboard stops working [closed]
When I turn on my laptop the keyboard does not work. When I restart the my computer the keyboard works. This problem happens on restarts or when powering on from a cold start. I have clean-installed ...
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Debian shows “Timed out while waiting for udev queue to empty” on boot
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After installing Debian, I encounter the error message Timed out while waiting for udev queue to empty every time I boot up. As a result, I have to wait for a while before I can ...
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Why is my PC going into recovery after changing boot order?
I switched from a hard disk to an SSD and after cloning my C drive into the SSD I changed the boot order to my SSD.
But after booting the PC just goes into recovery mode and doesn't boot again until ...
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I cannot get Kubuntu (any version) to load
I was running Kubuntu 25 without any problems. While watching a sport live stream there was a power cut, the machine doesn't have a UPS.
When power was restored, the machine would not start without ...
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From VirtualBox VM (.vdi file) to a USB bootable ISO image have Secure Boot error
I created a VirtualBox computer.
Then converted the VDI file to RAW format and copied the file to a USB using Rufus, using the procedure depicted in "From VirtualBox VM (.vdi file) to a USB ...
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Windows 2000 installation restored using fsarchiver won't boot
using System Rescue CD v. 10.00, I made a copy with fsarchiver of a windows 2000 installation which I have now to restore on another hard disk. The restore went fine, but when I try to boot it I get ...
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Is it possible to Install a boot manager to an empty hard drive for booting into installation medium?
I have a laptop where I'm locked out of the BIOS and the boot device is fixed to the internal hard drive. I would like to install a new OS on this laptop and was wondering if the following would work:
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How to automatically execute an interactive script at terminal startup?
I got a pretty simple script for my Raspberry PI 5 which I intent to use primarily as a media center. In pseudocode, it does:
You got 5 seconds to press key
if no key pressed
launch desktop ...
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Linux Manjaro running on HP Envy x360 randomly powers off and won't turn on on first try
I'm running Linux Manjaro on a HP Envy x360 laptop and since today my laptop started showing strange behavior:
The laptop suddenly powers off and the screen goes black (happened twice within 2 ...
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