Top "Boot" questions

The boot phase broadly refers to the set of operations that a computer system performs between power-on and access to a graphical/textual shell.

Start Service at boot without activity

I want create an application which contains only a service (no activity). This service must start on boot. My problem …

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How do I debug a slow rails app boot time?

Our rails app is nice and fast once it is loaded but the startup is brutally slow. Console, passenger etc …

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How can i put a compiled boot sector onto a USB stick or disk?

I'm actually interested in how an OS works, from the POST over the Boot process to the Kernel, GUI, etc. …

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grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template

So I upgraded kernel yum -y update kernel on my AWS EC2 base image, and I get the following: Running …

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Android autostart application

How can I autostart my application's service at device boot (with the possibility of enabling/disabling this feature)? What permissions …

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Why 55 AA is used as the boot signature on IBM PCs?

Why does the IBM PC architecture use 55 AA magic numbers in the last two bytes of a bootsector for the …

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Resize of columns in bootgrid

Since there are more number of columns in my bootgrid so the width of column has been reduced in such …

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Why is the root filesystem is loaded into a ramdisk?

I am studying the boot process in Linux. I came across this sentence "RAM is several orders of magnitude faster …

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How to launch service on boot complete android?

I've read some tutorial on launch service on boot. What I've done is: In manifest: <uses-permission android:name="android.…

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How to modify linux kernel for mounting a vhd file at boot time and load the system from it?

I want to modify linux kernel so that it can mount vhd files and starts from it...please give me …

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