Due to “Meltdown” I am in the progress of moving our CentOS7-XEN-PV-DomUs to HVM mode. See here on why I need to migrate to HVM This involves installing a bootloader – unnessesary on PV-DomUs, since they use pygrub to emulate the grub/grub2 boot process. What works: Boot the HVM DomU via PXE into a rescue … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 9 years ago. Improve this question I am running Windows 7. I would like to dual-boot Ubuntu, but minimize risk of something going wrong. In the past I have … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question Got a new workstation replacement laptop and it came with XP Pro. I’m going to use it to test Windows 7 and Ubuntu, … Read more
I am looking for somebody with a functioning QNAP TS-228 (32 bit; non-a version). I had a firmware upgrade gone bad and the firmware got corrupted. I have a usb ttl so I managed to connect to serial console and somewhat fix the box (extracted/decrypted the latest QTS firmware and replaced the faulty files). Unfortunately … Read more
I have a new computer that I have imaged using PXE. It loads a kernel, initrd and verifies if it needs to apply an image. If it does, it goes through some logic of partitioning (BIOS, non-GPT) the disk and applying a disk image (SLES 12 SP2) which it TFTPs over the network. From this … Read more
I have installed WIN 7 on my laptop, and currently I need to install other systems for test my app, Where can I find good boot loader for add/remove/ load a few systems ? Thanks. Answer GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) can boot most any operating system. Easiest way to get it — install Ubuntu … Read more
I have set up an unattended installation of Windows 7, but my setup causes the bootloader to be installed to the wrong drive. Here is the setup: Drive 0 (OS Drive): This is the drive that the OS gets installed to. This is also the drive I want the bootloader on. All Windows files are … Read more
I originally posted this on SuperUser because I discovered this behaviour on my home computer, but this seems to be a general issue on UEFI systems, thus I’m posting here too; I also hope someone here can shed some light on what’s going on. Italian version of Windows 7 x64 SP1, same installation media used … Read more
I got this old machine that runs on a p2 400 and a Linux Debian 3.1 with kernel 2.6.8 and since it has modified binaries due to internal undocumented changes in the code, migrating off manually isn’t an option, so I was trying to P2V this box with VMWare Converter and had no luck. The … Read more
I am using Cent OS 6.5 and I want to save the generated output and md5 hash from grub-md5-crypt command to a file. The grub-md5-crypt command asks us to set a password. I want the password(which I have generated using a password generator) to be read from another file. P.S. No mouse support and don’t … Read more
