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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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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Boot device not found: 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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Intel server not booting with dual processors
I've bought an intel S2600WF server. At first, I put two Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors into the server, but then it got stuck on the initialization screen after "Memory initialization complete. ...
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Why is the boot manager file for MS DOS 5.00 missing?
I downloaded the MS-DOS 5.00 boot ISO file from the Internet Archive and tried to boot it using YUMI (Your USB Multiboot Installer). However, it failed to boot, displaying a message that the boot ...
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PC won't boot from drive when I select it, but if I select boot from file and specify GRUB it works
fdisk HDD and grub installI have an HP Elite X2 and the OS on the ssd is windows 11. I have a external hdd with Kali Linux installed and it works fine on other laptops. But on this one it won't boot ...
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Unable to turn on secure boot
The secure boot on my ThinkPad T14 Gen4 is turned off. So, I tryed to turn it on by following the instructions on the Lenovo page.
But then, after saving and exiting, the following window pops up:
I ...
