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Kali Linux blank screen with blinking '-' after upgrade — can't access recovery shell
According to the Kali website running apt upgrade is not how to upgrade your system. It should be apt full-upgrade. Big difference. See https://www.kali.org/docs/general-use/updating-kali/
If you're ...
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Can grub load a kernel from HTTP?
As @user62916 already mentioned, as long as you have the http module loaded, you can load a kernel via http like:
(http,host.lan)/path/to/vmlinuz
More info here on this excellent document: https://...
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Redhat Satellite 6 - valueerror new value non-existent xfs filesystem
Well after a few hours I solved the problem.
Despite the fact that error message talks about non-existent file system, the problem itself doesn't have nothing to do with the file system type.
The ...
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How to supply nfsroot path via DHCP when network booting
Well I'm not sure if this is the solution, but as usual moments after asking the question, the answer appears.
It seems if you supply nfsroot=: then that's enough to get it to pull both the server IP ...
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What's the relationship between vmlinuz and ISO image (netboot)?
While the initrd file often includes a number of kernel modules, it usually won't contain all of them.
The netboot image sets up a more complete root filesystem that includes the full /lib/modules/ ...
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Debian preseed: How to force prompt for hostname and domain?
You have to change isolinux/syslinux configuration and remove the priority=critical from the boot line. Or just change it to priority=medium.
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archlinux efi netboot kernel "ip" does not work?; systemd "Failed to start Switch Root."
According to the instructions in the Arch Linux wiki for diskless systems
For the client installation
create a full Arch Linux installation in a subdirectory on the server.
then
Edit $root/etc/...
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