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How can I boot an os on a clean pc? [closed]
I have made bootable an USB key with mint on it. But when I launch my PC HP Pro Book x360 11 GE EE:
it checks the harddisk and sees no boot device with the error hardDisk 3F0 which is normal because ...
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How to make a .efi program execute at boot
I have written a .efi executable using Edk2 and have been able to successfully execute the file in the UEFI Shell. I'm attempting to have my file execute as my device, which is running Ubuntu, boots ...
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How to create bootable application image (efi)?
I trying to boot an elf microkernel in an UEFI environment. So i compiled a minimal boot loader and created an ESP image. This works fine if I boot via an HDD but I want to direct boot it via the qemu ...
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Create EFI-stub boot entry from Windows
I use Linux kerne EFI stub to boot. Now I have run into an emergency, because I have lost my UEFI boot entry and I am stuck with Windows.
Is there any possibility to create UEFI NVRAM boot entry for ...
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Set a Linux USB drive as next boot device in Windows UEFI programmatically
this is my first question here on SOF, I hope I get lucky! :)
I'm working on a small "USB launcher" app for amd64 architecture. This question is aimed at Windows 8 and 10 systems. I'm more of a *nix ...
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Chainloading Windows-EFI from Linux-EFI
Currently, I have the following boot chain in legacy (MBR) mode:
GRUB2 -> Linux -> kexec to Grub4Dos -> Windows.
I'm trying to figure out if this is also possible in UEFI-mode, i.e. starting the ...
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Passing kernel parametes to EFI-Stub in Apple's EFI env [closed]
Good day, everybody.
I'm trying to shorten the boot process of an iMac dual-booting OS-X and Ubuntu as much as possible. So far i managed to boot grub (and Ubuntu afterwards) directly by Apple's EFI ...
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Bios always jumps on first sector (512B) why ? is this some kind of BIOS limitation?
First I am not the expert in Booting but would like to understand it better way.
1) System boots goes to BIOS and BIOS goes to first boot sector which is first 512 bytes and from there it reads the ...
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