Questions tagged [bootable]
This tag covers questions/posts pertaining to creating/using/configuring/troubleshooting "bootable" media as well as system files and options related to loading/accessing/entering system distributions, operating systems in the context of their current and intended usage environment.
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Cannot recreate an Ubuntu ISO that is bootable
I am trying to create a bootable ISO for a customised Ubuntu. The ISO I create is not bootable (it won't boot in VirtualBox). To debug I am not modifying Ubuntu, just trying to recreate a bootable ISO ...
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how to make drive bootable
I have an old Debian system whose hard drive failed. I connected the drive to a working system and pulled all the data off of the root partition using dd. It looks to me like all the data is fine, so ...
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creating a bootable USB drive with a single partition
I want to install Debian in dual boot with Windows, for this I created a bootable USB key under Linux Lite (Ubuntu based distro), with the #dd command. The command I used is: dd if=image.iso of=/dev/...
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LFS booting EFI in macbook pro 2014
I am trying to build linux from scratch (LFS) as an educational project using the main LFS book version 12.1, however, whene i reach the bottable chapter, i found that i have to boot my LFS using EFI ...
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creating a bootable usb with GPT partition scheme to make use of linux .iso
The rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso to install from which is 14GB in size. For a usb device (i.e. disk) that would show up in Linux as /dev/sdb for example, doing a cp rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso /dev/sdb ...
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add partition and data onto usb stick already having bootable iso9660
I have a usb stick (actually a disk) and it is 5TB in size. I do a cp rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso /dev/sde to it and it then works to boot from and install Redhat Linux. What I would like to do is copy ...
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Why won't Ventoy boot from a flash drive
I recently bought a used Laptop, which had a German xUbuntu installation. I am vaguely familiar with xUbuntu. Because it was in German I wasn't able to find my way around and decided to just plug in ...
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Can't boot into linux on USB
I recently got a new laptop (Acer Aspire A515-48M) and I can't get it to boot linux. I burnt Ubuntu 22.04 on a USB pen drive with rufus (GPT partition scheme, FAT32 FS). In the BIOS, I disabled ...
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