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elementary OS won't boot past live CD screen
Try launching your kernel with nomodeset option, following this instructions:
During the boot process, press and hold SHIFT key. Now you
can see the grub menu.
Press e key on first line to edit it.
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Distinction between Operating System, Kernel and Bootloader
In addition to the three you listed a fourth part of the system also plays an important role. The BIOS.
Each piece of software transitions a computer from power off to a functional system starting ...
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Distinction between Operating System, Kernel and Bootloader
First I'll simplify your question Because Kernel and Bootloader are both parts of the Operating System.
First, let's talk about Kernel: To understand work of kernel I'll assume you've basic knowledge ...
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Is it possible to have Windows 10 and elementary OS installed on my HP notebook at the same time and boot without a USB drive?
You can install the elementary OS on a separate partition or over free space on the hard drive. You will only need an external storage device to install the OS.
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Can I still download the 0.3.1 iso anywhere?
0.3.1 doesn't support 32bit UEFI either. There is an open ticket for supporting 32bit UEFI in the future on Launchpad
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How can I remove and disable swap space?
Temporary
sudo swapoff -a
Permanent
First we must tell the system not to attempt to mount the swap partition on boot.
sudo scratch-text-editor /etc/fstab
Comment out (place a # before) or delete ...
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Bootloader Issue with Freya
I found a solution hidden in the comments. Run this on your grub screen:
configfile /efi/grub/
and hit tab (you may need to wait half a minute for it to load)
It should give you a list of possible ...
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Edit shutdown menu? Add custom entry?
First off, grub supports rebooting in to a specific OS, so you might want to use that instead. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43196/how-can-i-tell-grub-i-want-to-reboot-into-windows-...
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How to repair elementary OS?
It seems like you unistalled parts of your desktop.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall elementary-desktop should do the trick.
BTW you can install chromium from the official repositories.
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kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(2,0)
Have the same problem and found out that page: https://www.linux.com/learn/how-rescue-non-booting-grub-2-linux
I used the commands from there:
during grub-menu just enter c for commandline, than do ...
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Encrypted Elementary doesn't boot on first try
Actually, that seems like a regular problem across Linux, when people try to use NVIDIA drivers and encrypted file-system. Plymouth doesn't play well with NVIDIA.
The temporary solution is to disable ...
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pantheon desktop takes a long time to load
This is probably a duplicate
Delay to Start Elementary OS 0.4 Loki (64-bit)
Try this:
mv /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.disabled
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Black screen at boot [SOLVED]
Everything works again! No need to reinstall!
I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 to boot into tty1 and the $DISPLAY environment variable was empty.
So redefined the DISPLAY variable using export DISPLAY=:0.0 and ...
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I just want elementary OS 5.0 Juno to work
First that "Tech Guy" didn't knew a thing or is lying to you if he never saw a message like that. You can even Google it and you'll find dozens of articles about this, even your exact same issue.
The ...
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Elementary OS 6 Live USB don't boot
I had the same error while being in legacy mode. My fix was to change the BIOS to read a different file than its default in the folder /efi/boot on the usb-stick. To do that I had to create a new boot ...
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Black screen instead of plymouth
This bug has to do with changes in the theme between the current and the last version of elementary. They changed the theme so that hardware manufacturers could display their logo during bootup. ...
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What should be done with boot partition for updated installation of elementary OS Odin
There are few things to know here. The default Windows EFI partition of 100MB is too small for Windows and Elementary - Elementary will not be able to install on it. You need to create a second EFI ...
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My Boot freezes if my secondary drive is plugged in - Freya
The machine is attempting to book to your second drive. There are a few things that fix this:
Reorder Boot Devices in BIOS
By pressing the function keys, ususally F2 during startup (like, as soon as ...
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elementary OS Boot Error
If you have a running linux system.
Plug USB
sudo parted /dev/sdX set 1 boot on
sudo mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt
sudo 7z x /path-to-iso -o/mnt/
Where X is your USB device (usualmente a)
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Taking time to boot Freya
Control Startup Applications:
The less programs you have loading on bootup, the faster your system should be. You can control these startup applications from the system settings --> applications --> ...
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Cannot boot to elementary OS, boots to UEFI instead
Try
efibootmgr
sudo efibootmgr -o XXXX,YYYY,ZZZZ
Where XXXX, YYYY, ZZZZ..... are the ids you got with the fist command
If elementary OS is your only OS why you have the Windows boot loader?
You ...
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i can't boot elemntary os freya "minimal BASH like line editing is supported"
Boot from the Live CD
Open gparted → Right Click on sda1 → Flags: Check boot, quit
Open terminal
Mount partitions
mkdir ~/efi
mkdir ~/root
sudo mount /dev/sda1 ~/efi/
sudo mount /dev/sda2 ~/...
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How to access Dual boot when Grub is corrupted?
Here's the answer from https://askubuntu.com/questions/133533/how-to-remove-ubuntu-and-put-windows-back-on/143482#143482
It will help you restore the windows MBR The Master Boot record. You need to ...
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Black screen with Linux kernel 3.19.0.41
NVIDIA drivers were causing the problem. I removed drivers completely with --purge flag and then installed current drivers again and now everything works. Here's how to do this: https://askubuntu.com/...
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Low Disk Space on boot warning
Problem: Old, useless kernel copies that are generated when you upgrade them stuffed your tiny boot partition.
Solution: The package manager has gotten it from long years ago.
Open a terminal
Do ...
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elementary OS: Wingpanel and plank load very slowly at boot
A supposed fix is to run this command:
sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.disabled
I too had long boot times. I found this fix and tried it and I ...
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Can't install nor boot elementary OS from USB (using rufus)
I had similar problems: When getting to the boot launcher where you choose what to boot, you can press 'e' to edit the actual boot command. Add 'nomodeset' after 'quiet splash' and prior to the '--' ...
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Cannot boot after updating newest hardware-enablement stack
I had the same problem and it showed a black screen after the boot logo.
But then on the black screen I pressed enter and then entered my password. Then after a while when I pressed the volume button ...
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Soft lockup and delayed boot
I've had this problem for the past few days. The problem seems to be with the nvidia-smi tool that ships with NVIDIA drivers. I tried multiple driver versions, but the same problem arises.
I did a ...
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Problem booting with NVidia graphics
Go into the BIOS menu and make sure internal graphics are disabled. If that doesn't work, try hitting the 'e' key in the grub boot menu, and adding 'nomodeset=1' to the end of the line that starts ...
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