Top "Boot" questions

How to get Android system boot time

How can I get the absolute system boot time within the shell? i tried cat/proc/uptime, but this only …

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How can I boot OpenSolaris x86 into single-user mode?

Modern OpenSolaris is configured to disallow root logins during normal boots. It is only possible in single-user mode. However, many …

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Starting Vagrant VM on host boot

I am new to vagrant and have set up a couple of vagrant vm's which I use for development and …

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OS Development - booting from floppy drive using qemu

I have been reading BrokenThorn's OS development tutorial and am at the part of creating and loading the second stage …

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How do I find ARM Linux entry point when it fails to uncompress?

I am trying to boot Linux via U-boot on a custom board with i.MX6 (CPU core is ARM Cortex …

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How to turn off Windows kernel debugging at boot time?

I have a Vista 32 bit machine which I wanted to enable local kernel debugging on. In WinDbg I selected File/…

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Android - Trying to test a service on boot (java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial)

I've been trying to test a service when a device boots up on android, but I cannot get it to …

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Run Jupyter-notebook on boot on Ubuntu

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 Virtual Machine with anaconda installed, And I want it to launch Jupyter-notebook on startup with the …

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Android design : background long running service or AlarmManager?

I am building an app which will monitor the battery state, wifi connection and location data at regular intervals and …

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Edit a file using grub

I did a really bad mistake in the rc.local boot file. I added a process with an infinte loop …

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