#boot-loader

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Fix: How Do You Non-Destructively Check if grub2 is Installed in The Boot Sector or is Being Chain-Loaded by grub1, Without Rebooting? #it #solution #computers

Fix: How Do You Non-Destructively Check if grub2 is Installed in The Boot Sector or is Being Chain-Loaded by grub1, Without Rebooting? #it #solution #computers

How Do You Non-Destructively Check if grub2 is Installed in The Boot Sector or is Being Chain-Loaded by grub1, Without Rebooting?

We’re upgrading several systems from Debian Lenny to Squeeze and I’d like to ensure that I haven’t missed any grub2 installations. By default, Squeeze chain-boot-loads from grub1 and you have to run upgrade-from-grub-legacyto upgrade. So I’d like to be able to…

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How to: Is there a Linux kernel boot parameter to configure an IPv6 address? #computers #fix #dev

How to: Is there a Linux kernel boot parameter to configure an IPv6 address? #computers #fix #dev

Is there a Linux kernel boot parameter to configure an IPv6 address?

I know there is a parameter named ip which lets you configure IPv4 addresses on the Linux kernel through the boot loader. That looks like the following:

ip=192.0.2.1::192.0.2.62:255.255.255.192::eth0:none

I’m looking for an equal parameter for IPv6 configuration. I couldn’t find anything about this in the kernel documentations.

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Resolved: Howto boot directly into a VirtualBox image? #fix #programming #development

Resolved: Howto boot directly into a VirtualBox image? #fix #programming #development

Howto boot directly into a VirtualBox image?

I have a running setup as following:

Native OS: Windows 7 64bit, 3 Partitions:

c: (System)

d: (FAT32, here is my vdi file)

e: (unformatted)

VirtualBox: Fedora 14 running off the vdi file on drive d.

Usually this setup is great for me, but sometimes I’d like to run Linux natively, and not inside VirtualBox.

Is there a way to boot directlyinto the vdi…

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Fix: Howto boot directly into a VirtualBox image? #it #computers #solution

Fix: Howto boot directly into a VirtualBox image? #it #computers #solution

Howto boot directly into a VirtualBox image?

I have a running setup as following:

Native OS: Windows 7 64bit, 3 Partitions:

c: (System)

d: (FAT32, here is my vdi file)

e: (unformatted)

VirtualBox: Fedora 14 running off the vdi file on drive d.

Usually this setup is great for me, but sometimes I’d like to run Linux natively, and not inside VirtualBox.

Is there a way to boot directlyinto the vdi…

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