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Tech background : 2017 PC, new celeron cpu, integrated gpu, 8gb ram, 64gb storage (yeah it's a mini laptop). Running currently Windows 10, with UEFI system. (American Megatrends 2019) For the past few days, I created a bootable SD device using 3 different programs. At first I tried using Rufus...

Just got a new Acer Swift 3 (SF314-41) laptop without OS installed. Found out that any Linux distro installation is a problem. When I try to boot from USB stick I get next errors (tried on Ubuntu, Linux mint, manjaro): [0.998986] iommu ivhd0: AMD-Vi: Event logged [PAGE_TAB_HARDWARE_ERROR device...

Hello All, I figured this forum was the best place to post this question on the site. OS: Lubuntu 20.04.2 LTS System Spec: MacBook Air 2013, 1.7 GHz Dual Core I7 Hyper-threading, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Apple SSD SM0512F 500GB SSD Partitions: EFI 209.7 MB FAT 32 250 GB Apple_APFS (Mac OS) 250...

I use an Acer Aspire A315-51 laptop and I tried to install several distroutions (Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro, ...) but every time when everything is installed, after I press the bios key F2 a blackscreen with a white line appears. I can still select the operating system via the F12 boot menu, but I...

it worked before on my server and now i want to have it on my regular computer. i am using the dvd iso. does the mean i have to get a second iso or something?

Hi! I'm a kali Linux user (aka a pen tester) and i was watching a video on Firefox ESR then suddenly the startup log came up saying there's a I/O error it rebooted then then startup logo came then I saw a weird command line I typed "help" and it gave me a bunch of options but they weren't much...

Hello Everyone, Is it possible to run a script automatically with every boot? There are some command line that I have to enter every time I want to update the date and time and every time I want to connect my device to Wifi. Thank you

I'm trying to create a bootable usb from Manjaro KDE to make a dual boot with my windows, but I'm not having any luck. Every time I try, it partitionates the USB stick and when I open the folder, it only has an 'efi' folder inside, and nothing more. In the management of disks and partitions of...

Hello my friends. New in this forum, but planning to participate and finally get some expertise in this. I've been a GNU/Linux user for some years now, I've been running Kubuntu 18.XX for about 2 years. I love it and will keep using it forever. Last night things started acting strangely...

Good day everyone! I have been trying to find an answer on the internet, but its quite mixed in opinions. Is there any major risks of getting malware if I disable secure boot or should I just be careful of what I download on the internet? I have heard that operating systems like TAILS will not...

I installed Arch Linux alongside Windows and I can boot both operating systems after pressing F12. But when I want to go into the BIOS, the screen goes black and there is a small white line in the upper left corner. Then I reinstalled the BIOS, but the I can no longer boot Arch Linux. But if I...

Hello and thanks for taking the time to read this thread, I have a proprietary bootloader (for which I have the sources) that I have slightly modified to generate a PWM signal. This has to be done as early as possible; using a script launched via "etc/init.d/rcS" is not acceptable...

Hello! I recently installed Kali Linux and set it up using everything needed like this video showed . I disabled Secure boot In BIOS and fast boot and created a reserved space in my HDD just for that (40GB) . After I installed Kali Linux I opened it and worked for some hours, and then booted...

I recently switched from windows 10 to ubuntu 20.04. The first day was fine but the issue started from second day itself. The screen started to flicker (display random white screens) during shut down/boot. The next day i tried to boot the problem was still present. Assuming it to be a hardware...

I'm using a ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen2 with Artix Linux. It's been going good for several months. I recently tried updating my firmware with "fwupdmgr install" on the official Lenovo cab file and it told me there were no compatible devices. I eventually gave up on using fwupd and created a usb...

I have a hard drive that had the root, home, and swap partitions on it. I wanted to add a fourth NTFS partition so I used GParted to shrink the home partition and make the newly unallocated space an NTFS partition. Upon restarting my computer and booting from that hard drive, I got the "Reboot...

Can anyone find what is wrong with my eOS? $systemd-analyze Startup finished in 39.835s (kernel) + 3min 2.874s (userspace) = 3min 42.710s graphical.target reached after 1min 38.645s in userspace $sudo systemd-analyze blame 8.669s dev-sda6.device 8.127s media-mpoint.mount...

hiya, i am trying to dual boot my windows laptop to linux/windows but when i put the usb stick in an boot to linux it spams an error message saying sched_error 06, can you guys tell me what this error means and how can i fix it? thanks

I already had Linux Mint and I installed Kali Linux, everything seemed normal but when i restarted the pc, I realised that both of them were taking 3 minutes to boot while before It were 5 seconds. Using systemd-analyze time i saw that the userspace was taking 3 minutes, and I "solved"...

Hello, it seems like my original thread doesn't get any more replies, so i'll post a follow up to make sure it's seen. I still want to get my system back without formatting the partition it's on. Here is the original thread (it has a page 2)...