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“EFI variables are not supported on this system”

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

I am attempting to install Arch linux to a new (and very crappy) HP Pavillion 15 Notebook.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags uefi Leave a comment

UEFI + BIOS bootable live Debian stretch amd64 with persistence

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

All of the information I currently find on this matter is insufficient for my taste. It is either outdated, misleading or even wrong, seems overly complicated or not covering this specific question.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags debian, live-usb, persistence, uefi Leave a comment

Kali Linux is Installed but not showing in boot manager

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I recently bought a new Laptop:
Lenovo IdeaPad 320e
Intel i5 7200 2.5GHz processor
8Gb RAM
2Gb NVidia 940mx Graphics
1TB HDD

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags dual-boot, grub, kali-linux, uefi, windows Leave a comment

Dual boot windows on second harddrive, UEFI/GPT system

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I’d like to install linux, but I don’t want to risk damaging my current windows installation as I have heard a lot of horror stories. Fortunately, I have an extra hard drive. Can I install linux onto that and then dual boot windows without having to modify the windows drive?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags dual-boot, gpt, linux, uefi, windows Leave a comment

Why is USB not working in Linux when it works in UEFI/BIOS?

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

For background I have just built a new machine with modern hardware including:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bios, linux, troubleshooting, uefi, usb Leave a comment

Grub installation failed

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I had a good running installation of Debian Jessie, but then I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-upgrade.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags boot, debian, grub2, uefi Leave a comment

Pop OS: systemd-boot can’t detect Windows

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I’ve followed the classic procedure to install Windows and Linux in dual boot. First I installed Windows in UEFI mode, then I use a bootable PopOS key to resize the main Windows partition; I created a Linux partition as well as a 500MB /boot/efi partition in the remaining space.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags dual-boot, pop-os, systemd-boot, uefi, windows Leave a comment

how to achieve optimal alignment for emmc partition?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

We have bbb based custom board containing eMMC.
And we have created partitions as follows,

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags gpt, linux, parted, uefi Leave a comment

How to modify an installation ISO and keep it bootable?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

I know there have been quite a few similar questions, but they aren’t specific enough.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags bash, bootable, iso, uefi, windows Leave a comment

(UEFI) Chainloading GRUB from GRUB

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

Terminology: ESP = my FAT32 EFI partition.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags boot-loader, dual-boot, grub2, uefi Leave a comment
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  2. anonymous on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianJune 27, 2022

    saved my day!! Thanks for the help…

  3. sreedhar on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianMay 10, 2022

    Thanks its working

  4. saintnick on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianMay 10, 2022

    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

  5. ranafoul on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianApril 22, 2022

    apt remove libwacom2 helped on kali 2022.01. gr8

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