Questions tagged [boot]
Questions about the bootup process in elementary OS. Use this tag if you have trouble booting elementary OS or you have questions about the bootup process.
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Sometimes the system boots slow
Brand new computer with SSD and most of the times the system boots really fast, but other times it doesn't. I enter my password and then wait solid minute and a half. I tried to see if there is any ...
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Free space on /boot disk problem
I have an Asus u6sg and when I have to install updates It tell me that I do not have enough space in the "/boot" disk. I can't be able to do changes with Gparted.
How can I do?
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New installation on MacPro not recognised
I followed all installation instructions to the letter, I didn't force UEFI so I could boot normally in OSX (MacPro 3,1).
The installation (on an external USB HDD) doesn't work at all, not when ...
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Long load time on bootup with nvidia graphics card
I installed Loki fresh from a usb stick. I replaced the graphics card and had some trouble (see this question) After fixing this, the bootup process takes an extremely long time.
Bootup with the AMD ...
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Sometimes the dock and top bar do not appear on elementary Loki. What to do? [duplicate]
Sometimes the dock and top bar do not appear. What to do?
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After instalation, boot error message: can not find any operational system
After a clean installation of Elementary Loki, there is an error message during the booting that does not allow me run Elementary. "Cannot find any operational system". As I am not an expert, the only ...
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NetworkManager is delaying my boot. How can I solve it without breaking functionality?
After a recent update or maybe after connecting to a TTLS wifi network my boot time increased in 10 seconds.
I could make it faster by disabling "Connect automatically to this network" on the ...
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Verbose boot up
When I first installed eOS the boot up was 'silent' ie no screen activity until the log-in screen was reached.
Now it gives a verbose list of everything that's being loaded which is not a serious ...
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I have no GUI after signing in
Changed my power settings so that it would do nothing when I shut the lid on my laptop. Then I had to restart to get the settings to work. After that, when I get to the sign-in screen where I can ...
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Screen Just blank when selecting "install elementary os"
Screen Just blank when selecting "install elementary os" in EFi mode, when i try to install from bios mode just the white courser is blinking.
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Encrypted Elementary doesn't boot on first try
After installing nvidia-370 drivers from official PPA, I cannot boot into my system from first try. So, basically each time I try to start my machine, after initial bios diagnostics it produces this:
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Problem booting with NVidia graphics
Today I tried to install elementary OS on my PC alongside Windows 10 but I've got error when I tried to launch bootable usb (see photo). How can I install it?
I want to try Linux for my first time.
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I maybe corrupted my BIOS
So the thing is that I was running a live elementary USB and wanted to use GParted to do some partitioning on my other USB but Gparted interrupted me constantly with the error that GPT table was ...
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How to disable startup chime?
When first booting up my MacBook Pro running Elementary OS, there's a rather loud startup sound effect. I have my desktop volume turned all the way down and also toggled off, however this doesn't seem ...
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Soft lockup and delayed boot
Freshly installed elementary os with nvidia drivers will lock up during the boot, delaying to boot by roughly 30s. Is there anything I can do to stop that? I have blacklisted non-nvidia drivers.
Here ...
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Loki: Can move cursor on the screen but can't click on anything [closed]
In trying to find a suitable OS to install on my 2009 Macbook, I went with Ubuntu with which I couldn't connect to Wi-Fi, so I'd like to try Elementary.
I created a bootable USB with Loki, booted on ...
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Error SQUASHFS?
i'm having problems installing elementary os freya 32 bits, i have a really older laptop from a little cousin and want to install elementary, i'm using rufus to create the bootable usb and install it, ...
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Froze during security update and now black screen
I was prompted to install security updates which. Halfway through, the screen went black and stayed that way. I let it sit that way for 30 mins until I figured that at that point it must have froze so ...
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Computer doesn't get past BIOS start, screen goes black
Today (02.09.16) I was updating the available security package on my computer when its battery died. Yes I know that all updates should be done with computer connected but I simply forgot and the ...
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Trying ElementaryOS - boot from USB
First of all I'm not familiar with Linux products, but I'm interested and wanted to try elementary due to fact it looks simple and no additional apps are required after installation - it is like out ...
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elementary OS Freya freezes when booting
When I boot elementary OS Freya, it freezes with the pulsating logo. Pressing "Esc", I see that the last line is * Starting cups-browsed - Bonjour remote printer browsing daemon [ OK ].
I have ...
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Unable to boot elementary OS after new important security and hardware support update
I have installed above update and after that system cannot boot. it displayed the "e" logo and after that everything goes black again, does anyone know how to fix this? already tried recovery mode. ...
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Cannot boot after updating newest hardware-enablement stack
0.3.2 Freya on a
i7-3537U CPU 2.00GHz,
NVIDIA GK107M [GeForce GT 740M]
After getting the dialog box this user got, I searched for a solution and eventually used this one:
Kernel version is still 3....
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Cannot boot elementary OS from external drive from OS X
Installation of elementary OS was successful but when I attempt to boot into elementary OS that drive doesn't show up with the other bootable drives. I can see the drive in Disk Utility but I cannot ...
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elementary os uvd error
I successfully installed elementary OS, but i get the following error when i boot the os.
*ERROR* UVD not responding, trying to reset the VCPU!!!
I have an AMD radoen hd 6000 graphics card and ...
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Screen goes blank after GRUB loader
Everytime I choose to boot to eOS,screen goes blank most of the time after GRUB loader. No splash screen is ever displayed. Everytime I need to reset my laptop 3-4 times to get to lock screen of eOS. ...
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How to repair the system after an accidental deletion of the kernels?
(newbie alert!). So basically, a window kept pop-in out saying that
the volume "boot" has only 0 bytes disk space remaining
So I searched for a solution and I found one saying that I should ...
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How can you install elementary OS without installing the bootloader?
I want to install eOS but i already have an Arch install with grub2. Can i skip eOS's grub installation and use my existing one?
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Can't install nor boot elementary OS from USB (using rufus)
I've been trying to make it boot from a flashable usb stick for 2 days and I still haven't managed to do so. I tried with many other linux distros (ubuntu, mint, debian, manjaro) and they all work ...
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Cannot login due to elementary OS thanks to Veracrypt and a possibly invalid volume
I have Freya with an encrypted partition and decided to try Veracrypt. It created a partition I'll named like /dev/mnt/veracrypt7. After fiddling with the app, I gave up thinking I'm already well ...
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How do I mount encrypted root LVM volumes for editing or recovery?
I needed to move the /home directory on the boot/root drive to another disk to free up space.
This meant replicating the data to the other drive, then mounting the encrypted boot drive offline so I ...
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I/O error, dev sda, getting busy box when booting up.
Having some trouble booting up my computer this morning - can anyone help out with this? I can't start up at all in either normal or recovery mode and I don't know what (or how to find out what) the ...
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how to get the grub menu to show when starting computer
elementary OS works but only when i go to advanced startup, i can access it from there. On startup, the grub menu doesn't appear - it goes straightaway to windows 10. is there a way to show the grub ...
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elementary OS: Wingpanel and plank load very slowly at boot [duplicate]
My hardware specifications include a 256 GB HDD SSD and 8 GB of RAM. Recently, eOS has started taking around 30 seconds to load wingpanel and plank after login screen.
I referred to this question ...
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kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(2,0)
I have recently tried to install Elementary OS in order to replace Windows 7. My process was the following:
Back up files one external hard drive.
Create bootable Elementary OS USB using Universal ...
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Old Desktop will not boot Freya 0.3.2 i386 CD
great problem with very old desktop.
System is an old AMD Athlon XP 1900+ on a ASUS A7V600-X MoBo with NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200.
System support CD-Boot only! No USB-Stick or HD work as boot device.
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Operating System Not Found
Installed Elementary via the live usb to D drive. C Drive is windows ssd. In boot order have changed so the D drive is higher in the boot order than C. When order is reversed, the C drive works as ...
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Laptop having boot issues
I’ve just installed Elementary OS on my Toshiba Laptop and now I am getting boot issues. To turn the computer on after shutting down I have to force shutdown twice to get it to startup. The first time ...
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Make elementary OS freya boot in 20 seconds
My laptop is dual-booting Windows 10 and elementary OS.Windows 10 boots to the desktop (Chrome opens instantly) in just 20 seconds (including POST which is only 1 sec) while elementary OS Freya takes ...
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Black Screen Error instead elementary OS logo when Madcatz Strike5 Keyboard is pluged
I am already tried looking for my problem in this forum without no lucky, it seems to me just an aesthetics thing but it is a little annoying. I have a gamer keyboard (MadCatz Strike 5), and when it's ...
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Unable to mount partition on boot
I have installed elementary OS and Windows 10 alongside. after dividing a partition into two from Windows side, seems like elementary OS unable to mount the partitions on booting. It shows following ...
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What is the supported method for enabling/disabling services on elementary OS?
I installed the openssh-server package but only want it to start on demand, as opposed to boot which is the package default.
When I tried to disable the SSH server using upstart I got the following ...
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Can I deinstall bumblebee if not needed?
I run Freya with a 4.2.8 Kernel on a new Intel Skylake NUC i3.
Hardware acceleration of the Intel HD 520 works with "i915.preliminary_hw_support=1" in Grub.
I don't have any Nvidia hardware.
On ...
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How to install the 4.4 kernel on a unbootable system
My laptop does not boot Freya.So I think that I should upgrade my kernel to 4.4.But the system is unbootable and gives a error and does not show the GUI.
But how could I do this when it doesn't boot
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Elementary OS Black screen after driver update?
I installed a graphics driver update using NeteXt'73 and now my screen goes permanently black soon after the pulsating elementary logo boot animation. How can I fix this? I cannot login nor access the ...
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Boot error messages spammed
I'm fairly new to the Linux community, but I have used it for a few years. I don't know much about how it works, but I think I can get around it with detailed instructions.
Anyways, today I decided ...
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No swap space on elementary-os Freya
During boot I get the message:
/dev/mapper/elementary--vg-swap_1 is not ready yet or not present - message on boot
which has been deleted after a while. After a login I can't see any swap space ...
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No OS found after installation from LiveUSB
I just tried to install ElementaryOS on my HP Probook. After the installer finishes, it reboots my computer, like normal. However, it does not boot upon restart. Instead, I get a black screen with ...
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Installation issues
I've had some issues when installing the newest version of Elementary OS Freya (0.3.2).
The installation and partitioning work as expected, and show no errors.
Upon rebooting the system gives me a ...
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No entry in GRUB to boot!
I have a computer with the following specs -
Intel Pentium E2180
945GCM S2L board
2 hdd's namely
Seagate Momentus SpinPoint with windows 7 on sda1 , an extended partition sda4 containing 346GB ...