I am trying to install either Debian or CentOS on a home server (Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S3). I first tried installing Debian. The whole installation was successful (including grub). But after rebooting, the OS would not boot up.
Hi, got a new machine, wanting to do a triple boot.
Since the new rig has 16GB of RAM, and since I rarely logout or use hibernation I'm just going to skip the /swap partition.
So could I just make the /boot, /, and /home partitions and be good?
I've read here of other people setting their swap to zero, don't know exactly what that means, but is it necessary to make a swap however small?
Hello all, when I installed, I set up://boot/home/ntfs-partitionAs you can see there's no swap. Now I changed my mind and I'd like to make /boot part of / , AND use that partition for Swap. but how do I go about that?
Own an xps 15z for about a year. A few things happened in past couple months: hard drive started clicking (telling me it was on its way out) and during boot up, boot hangs on udev. about 3 days ago i went from 2 udev-boot hangs per every 10 boot ups to 95% of bootups.I then ran smartctl on the disk and see one bad block over and over. Futile attempts to fix this block did not work.
Is there a way to easily turn on/off showing the boot messages (loading the services) when Ubuntu starts? My machine uses WUBI for boot-up.
The reason I am asking is to figure out if the reason for the lockups is caused by events which happen a boot-up. I see messages which are cleared out before I can read them.
I have a dual boot of Win7 and Ubuntu on my HP laptop. I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 today and on restart I got a different black Grub screen instead of the usual purple one. (GNU GRUB version 1.99-21ubuntu3.1) Each boot option only returns error messages.
If /boot appears to be empty then I suspect that you have a separate /boot partition and it is not mounted when you try to look at it.I would boot from the install CD/DVD and hit esc to... [by TrevorH]
I'm trying to boot Debian from a USB Hard Drive (using rEFIt as a boot loader), and am successful on two newer-model MacBook Pros and a Hackintosh (no surprise there), but I'm not successful on several other Mac computers at my university.
rEFIt loads just fine and sees my Debian partition, but when I try to boot it, it gives the error:
no bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key
Since the last update that replaced the linux kernel in my 64-bit ubuntu v12.04 system, the computer has been reporting error messages early in the "maroon-brown screen" portion of the boot process.
Those messages appear and vanish so fast I can't read them exactly, but there seem to be 8 identical lines that say ""microcode could not be loaded" or installed (or something), and the long filename
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