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Questions tagged [boot-failure]

Boot failures are issues that makes a system impossible to boot and hence renders the system useless.

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Error saying "unable to update ICE authority" while booting

I often get an error saying unable to update ICE authority. Is there a way out of this?
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Reboot hangs 100% - possibly in mountall

UPDATE: It seems mountall is hanging inside the routine emit_event(), which it calls after / is remounted to emit an event to that effect. Inside emit_event, it calls ply_boot_client_flush(), then constructs the env array, calls…
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Notebook is booting when battery is removed

I installed Ubuntu on my notebook, when I was using Windows it booted fine, but after change OS, sometimes it only boots if I remove battery, is there any solution I can fix it Here is output of dmesg, unfortunately I couldn't paste output here…
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Ubuntu 10.04 doesnt boot

Possible Duplicate: I can't boot into a usable system anymore. What should I do? I am using ubuntu 10.04-03 in virtual box. All of a sudden today it doesn't boots up and shows (initramfs) prompt as shown below. Is there anyway I can fix it as I…
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How to install AMD Proprietary driver correctly on ubuntu 12.10?

I would like to install AMD driver, however, I'm afraid because of past experiences after installing proprietary driver from Additional drivers. Everytime I installed be it ubuntu 11.04 or 12.04, After rebooting, I get a blank screen, and don't know…
user117288
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Computer won't boot

I tried installing Ubuntu 12.10 over my Windows 7 OS and a couple of errors appeared, I cannot remember what they said but, I tried rebooting and now when my computer starts it first shows the first image when you first boot it but then all that…
chrismojames
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Error: File not found

Error: File not found. Press any key to continue...-- I get this when after I choose Ubuntu on start. Pressing any key doesn't work. What's this? I'm new to Ubuntu.
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On boot, black screen says "Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS [ubuntu name] tty1" and asks for login

I am new to Linux, never used it before. I can follow instructions but don't know much about it. Tried searching for a solution to this but couldn't find one. I installed Ubuntu 12.04. It was working fine. Now when I boot up, I get BIOS splash…
Adam
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Boot problem in ubuntu precise pangolin 12.04

After updating the updates,ubuntu refuse to reboot?please help? how i can recover ubuntu 12.04
user62355
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Xubuntu 12.04 does not start

I have installed Xubuntu 12.04 on my old computer recently and it worked fine for several days but now I have a big problem. I was in the process of installing a program and in the same time browsing the internet when the system somehow stopped…
ex_Windows_user
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can`t boot to win7 x64 after formatting ubuntu12.0.4

I got a new laptop Sony VAIO E-series with win7. I installed ubuntu12.04 x64 but I formatted Ubuntu partition due to some booting problems. From then I'm unable to boot with previous win7 and recovery disk for win7 is unable to load though it is…
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Can't boot 12.10 after installing nvidia proprietary drivers

I was having issues with the 304 nvidia drivers, so I decided to downgrade to the 295 drivers. I did so by dropping out of X, stopping lightdm, and installing the drivers. However, now my computer won't boot into Ubuntu at all. It hangs on stopping…
Brian
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I'm at the boot: prompt

I have Ubuntu 10.04 on a bootable flash drive. It appears that the configuration file is not there anymore. I need to know what the commands are to get me back into the system. I am sitting at the boot: prompt now I do know that vmlinuz works but…
user100400
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Tried to install Windows, and now can not boot Ubuntu partitions - Error Loading Operating System

i have one hard disk and two operating systems Ubuntu and Lubuntu. I wanted to install Windows XP also but i had only two partitions. I used GPARTED to resize partition with Lubuntu to get more space for new partition. After that i rebooted and…
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Ubuntu Studio 12.04 won't boot

Possible Duplicate: Ubuntu 12.04 boot only when USB drive is connected I'll warn ye first off I'm still relatively new to Ubuntu and Linux. I installed Ubuntu Studio on a spare hard-drive (formatted beforehand etc.). Install works fine (off live…
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