Boot System Failed

Recently my computer has crashed, Once the laptop reset there was a message saying,
"Boot system has failed - Insert Boot Disk and press any button"
The problem is I do not know were to find a Boot disk to fix the problem, If anyone knows how to help it will be a massive help.
Thanks

yes. I tried that before any thing. System did not respond. Then I switchedoff the system. Then rebooted holding "option" button. That led the system to internet recovery. After a while recovery process stopped and exclamation mark in a triangle appeared with a caption apple.com/support, 6003F.

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2950 fails boot system flash:

Hi all,
I am new to the cisco family, and am presently attending the 3rd semester of Net Academy, so apologies for perceived ignorance. Last night working on Chapter 6 Switch Config, I attempted to boot to a second OS in flash that happens to be of a newer version than the one running on the labs 2950.
the running os was:c2950-3ch2s-mz.120-5.3.wc.1.bin
I change the boot parameters to point to the other file as such...
boot system flash:c2950-[1]6q412-mz.121-19.ea1.bin
Here is the problem, as I have id'd [1] should have been an 'i'. As a consequence the boot process FAILS!!! CAN'T find the file "DUH" schmuck me!!. The process halts with 'switch:'
I have attempted numerous ways to rectify this problem, BUT to no avail.
Dir flash: reveals that both os are still present....
thanks in advance for any hints on how to restore would be most welcomed... and this schmuck can save a little face..
Kevin

Hi jack,
thanks for replying.
You are correct in your assumption. I also has a feeling that IT was the case. As class time was running out, I had I could not follow up an discover the correct syntax.
But this morning, I read through the 2950 'boot command' prompt docs and figured out my mistake-forward slash missing /
I went to school and input this:
boot flash:/c2950-[i]6q4[l]2-mz.121-19.EA1.bin
problem solved!!!!
Another little known mistake, which I discovered form reading another post in this forum, was the mistaken identity of 1 for what is actually a lower case 'L'. See brackets....
The best thing about my screw up, I did not ERASE anything and therefore recoverable..
Thanks again for your concern.
Kevin

Booting the system fails

Hello !
Arch, after a normal shutdown, fails to load !
Lilo checks the bios, loads the kernel, shows some dots, and then freezes .... nothing ....
it constantly fails, even booting the fail safe kernel !
I don't know what could happen !
Maybe the system upgrade ? ( pacman -Suy )
But i do this on a daily basis, and pacman hasn't reported any failures with the download or the install ...
Is there any way to discover what happened ?
It happened to me only once ... with arch on another laptop ...
My filesystem is xfs ... but i havent edited anything and no failures were noticed ...
I also have /boot on an ext2 partition ...
so, how to approach such a situation ? I would normally reinstall the whole system , but i think that there may be another way ?

If you didn't run LILO after the upgrade, mico is absolutely right. It fails, because the kernel image has a different size etc.
So what you need to do is to boot using a live CD, mount your system (bind the device file system); then you can chroot into the your system and run lilo. No matter what, after each kernel upgrade, you must run lilo - as is written in the upgrade message, by the way Or use GRUB...

The boot selection failed because a device is inaccessible, not the usual boot error though?? (0xc000000e)

Hey,
I need some help fast please. I recently booted up my gaming rig after swapping out a 7970 graphics card and upon system boot up, as the windows 7 logo appeared the system crashes and a BSOD appears for a split millisecond and I'm asked to start up repair windows
or start windows normally however when I click start up repair a black error screen appears with the following message and error: The boot selection failed because a device is inaccessible error state and an error code:0xc000000e. Now of fixed this before
multiple times except this instance nothing seems to work Ive tried the following:
- check for any unplugged or loose cables
- Re installed my ram
- Booted with on board graphics
- unplugged all usb devices and external devices with the exception of the keyboard and mouse
- Booted with system installation disc and attempted system repair several times only with the same outcome of wanting to restore from a previous system restoration point however it always fails
- changed the boot type to IDE which made the system boot furhter past the logo screen however it still crashes with the same error
- From the system installation disc I ran a chkdsk /f and no corruptions or bad sectors were found
However, I did run from the installation disc a "bcdedit" and my osdevice was unkown and my boot manager and boot loader were set to two different drives on being D: and the other being C:. So I re-linked all three back to the D: drive as the
windows installation disc says thats where Windows 7 is installed, although in the actual windows 7 My Computer its listed as C: drive which is weird? anyways after re-linking them using bcdedit /set {default} osdevice partition=D: and the other two commands
my recovery partition disappeared which was listed as C:, and now I can only see my local drive? That did not fix the error so I tried one last thing and ran another chkdsk D: /f /r which is taking for ages and I'm assuming my hard drive and its contents
are still intact ( thank god!!) because its taking so long and there are 612080 files to be processed!
I thought I might try and rebuild Master Boot Record?
I don't want to loose any of my data, well I hope I haven't lost any because I have over 150+ games and their saves :(
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated :D
thanks guys!

Hi,
Repair the current OS using the Windows 2008 / 7 DVD:
Boot to the Windows DVD
Select Next > Repair your computer
Select Next > Command Prompt
Change directory (cd) to x:\Sources\recovery
then type Startrep.exe to launch a quick automated startup repair utility which corrects boot environment values. This step may require more than one attempt and should be repeated a couple of times if the first repair fails.
If step 3 fails, open the command prompt and type bcdedit This
will display the values for Windows Boot Manager.
Review the values for Device. Is it set to unknown, as shown below? If so, proceed to step 7.
At the command prompt, type the following commands (c: is the default system partition. If your original partition was another drive letter, this value can be set to that drive letter):
bcdedit
/set {DEFAULT.EN_US} device partition=c:
(press enter)
bcdedit
/set {DEFAULT.EN_US} osdevice partition=c:
(press enter)
bcdedit
/set {BOOTMGR.EN_US} device partition=c:
(press enter)
Reboot the system after removing the OS disk.
Hope it helps,
Jan

Windows 8.1 not booting : "Boot manager failed to find OS loader"

Hello all,
I know this question came up before, but I have being trying to fix this for many days now, without luck and I feel I need some new ideas...
The short story:
My Windows 8.1 is not booting, and gets trapped in cycle of Boot Manager until I tell the UEFI to boot from disk or USB
I can boot up from external CD or USB Windows RE, from which I can get to prompt line
In the log file in C:\Windows\System 32\LogFiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt I read:
Boot manager failed to find OS loader
Repair Action File Repair à Failed (err code 0x4001)
Repair Action Boot Config Data Store Repair à Failed (err code 0x2)
4. My disk is GPT partitioned, with UEFI Bios
5. I tried the typical Bootrec commands: FixMbr, FixBoot, ScanOs, RebuildBCD but I always get the error:
Identified Windows install:0
6. I tried Bcdedit but I get:
the boot configuration data (BCD) store could not be opened
7. I tried to create a new BCD store in the FAT32 partition (temporarily named "v:\") with
bcdboot c:\Windows /l en-gb /s v: /f ALL
but I get:
Failure when attempted to copy boot files
8. Finally, I noticed that in
C:\Windows\System32\
I DO NOT have the file winload.efi
while in: ESP\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\
I DO have the file Bootmgfw.efi
One question I have is: Is it possible to copy a "healthy" winload.efi from somewhere in my PC into C:\Windows\System32\ ?
Where (which path) could I find it?
Any other ideas? Please help !!!!
Many thanks!! This is literarily driving me crazy because I really don't want to reinstall windows....

Hello Kermit_70,
What is your current situation?
Please try the suggestion as aw00t mentioned.
Additionally, please try to use Automatic Repair to fix problems that keep Windows from loading.
For more information, please take a look at the following article.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2269-system-recovery-options-boot-windows-8-a.html
Please note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
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HT1782 storage system fail or repair failed

When I use the disk utility, I click on the first volume which reads ST9500325ASG, it gives me a message "storage system fail or repair failed".
When I click on the disk below which reads Macintosh HD. It says the volume 2FE etc.....appears to be ok. The volume Macintosh HD appears to be ok.
Why the error message on the first? Also I did encrypt the volumen.
I have Mac OSX 10.7.4
Thank you.

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I have a Mac Pro running OS X 10.8.2. Frequently the system fails detect a CD. Doesn't seem to make a difference if it contains music or is blank. I am unable to eject the CD. The system just doesn't recognize that a CD has been loaded.

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Latest round of patches on fabric booted system causes Solaris 10 to hang

I have a fairly stock install of Solaris 10 6/06 on a T2000 which uses a Emulex HBA to boot from Xiotech SAN attached disks.
I installed the following patches:
118712 14 < 16 R-- 24 SunOS 5.10: Sun XVR-100 Graphics Accelerator Patch
120050 05 < 06 RS- 28 SunOS 5.10: usermod patch
120222 16 < 17 R-- 19 SunOS 5.10: Emulex-Sun LightPulse Fibre Channel Adapter driver
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When I rebooted the system it will no longer boot up.
If I do a {ok} boot -m milestone=none and attempt to start all the services by hand, I see:
svc:/platform/sun4u/mpxio-upgrade:default (Multipath upgrade)
State: offline since June 4, 2007 4:05:58 PM CDT
Reason: Start method is running.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-C4
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M stmsboot
See: /etc/svc/volatile/platform-sun4u-mpxio-upgrade:default.log
It appears the mpxio-upgrade script is failing to start.
If I run /lib/svc/method/mpxio-upgrade by hand the script hangs and can not be killed. Since I am on console the only want to recover is to send-brk and reboot. I truss'ed it and the last device it was trying to read is:
82: open("/devices/pseudo/devinfo@0:devinfo", O_RDONLY) = 5
82: ioctl(5, 0xDF82, 0x00000000) = 57311
This is the second time this has happened in the last 2 months. The first time the problem was resolved with a new kernel patch. However Sun could not tell me what the exact problem was.
Has anyone else run into SAN/Fabric booted servers failing to boot after various patches?

We have discovered the problem. It has nothing to do with SAN booting at all. It has to do with having a device plugged into the serial port. I was using this system to act as serial console for another device in the same rack. When the Sun kernel engineering asked me to unplug the serial cable and reboot I was skeptical, but it worked.
Sun has filed this as a bug. The only work around right now is to make sure you have nothing plugged into the serial port.

[SOLVED] Mount /boot/efi fails after linux-....pkg.tar.xz upgrade

Can anyone help with this please? Sorry if it's a well known issue and I have just failed to find the solution, but I have searched for one.
I use yaourt -Syu regularly, and generally it's great.
BUT - every time linux-3.17...-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is upgraded the system fails to reboot! Throwing something like:
Nov 17 16:09:49 cart systemd[1]: boot-efi.mount mount process exited, code=exited status=32
Nov 17 16:09:49 cart systemd[1]: Failed to mount /boot/efi.
Nov 17 16:09:49 cart systemd[1]: Unit boot-efi.mount entered failed state.
Nov 17 16:09:49 cart mount[232]: mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'
After much struggling I have discovered a workaround, but I don't understand it - or like it. This is what I do:
1. Boot from an archiso image cd in UEFI mode
2. Mount the correct partitions on / /home and /boot
3. # arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
4. # cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
5. # pacman -U linux-3.16.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (or whatever is the latest upgrade)
Then, when I exit and reboot all is well again.
I use the rEFInd boot manager to choose between ArchLinux and ,reluctantly, Windows 8.1 - I suspect that might have something to do with my problem but I don't know what.
If anyone can tell what I am doing wrong, please explain.
Thanks
John
Last edited by JohnColeman (2014-11-18 15:58:51)

Hi Matt,
I think you've done it - thanks a lot.
I changed this line in my /etc/fstab :
UUID=0E51-F605 /boot/efi vfat ...
to
UUID=0E51-F605 /boot vfat ...
and I think that's done the trick.
I did pacman -U linux-3.16.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz again without booting from an archiso image cd in UEFI mode, which would previously have failed - and it didn't.
I look forward to the next actual upgrade of linux-3...
Thanks again, I can't remember how, or why, I went wrong in fstab but I won't do it again.
John

Boot Disk Failed to load even though I've delted Windows Partition?!

Hi All,
I had a few problems installing Windows (mainly not being able to eject the CD during installation...) and decided to wait a while until I purchase Vista. I've deleted the partition through Disk Utility, and it now shows that it's not there.
However, when I start up my Mac, I'm faced with a screen saying "Boot Disk failed to load, press any key to restart."
I can get into my Mac by holding down the Alt Key, but don't really wanna do that every time I turn it on!
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Happy New Year!
Simon.

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Try resetting your SMC.
Resetting the System Management Controller >>
Boot from your system CD, run Disk First Aid from your Disk Utility and repair your permissions.
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"Boot Manager failed to find OS loader" - Windows XP

Hello, I'm new in this community.
That being said, I have a problem with my Thinkpad SL410. Two nights ago I shut down my laptop. It was working fine at that point. I clicked on shut down, but I think it went to "update and shut down". BAD idea, since now, its stuck on a loop.
When I try and boot up the laptop, it only brings me to R&R4. Then, after it scans and tries to "fix" the problem, it gives me a message. Unfortunately, the message is in chinese since I bought this laptop in china, so with my rough translation skills, I was able to determine that "Boot Manager failed to find OS loader".
You would think that that would be easy to fix. I go grab a windows recovery ISO, and put it onto my bootable USB. Problem is, R&R is almost getting in the way of recovery console. When I boot from the usb, there is a black screen with the message "To boot rescue and recovery environment, press f11". I have tried to press f11 and I have tried to wait, but no matter what, it takes me to the thinkvantage rescue and recovery, as opposed to the windows console.
Essentially, I cannot access the console to type in:
-fixboot
-fixmbr
I have painstakingly translated much of the R&R page (The one that gives you 3 options; restore, backup, reset to factory settings). I don't think there is a way to get to recovery console via that rescue and recovery page. So I do what is most logical. I try and restore to a backup. Technology doesn't seem to like me because after waiting for 30 mins, its at 93% done and there is a message saying something along the lines of "C: doesnt have enough space".
Great. What other options do I have? I know the hard drive isn't corrupted and my files are still there, since going into "backup" shows me all the files (pictures, documents, etc...). I can't back them all up and factory reset since not only would it take forever, but it would take up wayy too many gigs of space, and I simply can't get my hands on a massive storage system atm.
This is very frustrating since I only started using this computer after my dell laptop had a hard drive failure. It's a pain trying to get through dell support, only to have my situation a whole lot more complicated since it was a gift from china, and already registered to someone. Then a perfectly good working computer fails on me again, and this time I can't analyze the problem correctly since the computer is in chinese.
TL;DR
"Boot manager failed to find OS loader error. When I try booting from Windows XP ISO, R&R gets in the way. I also can't do a restore to backup since my C drive apparently doesn't have enough space.

Hi dizscez, welcome to the forums,
I can't promise, but something which has worked for me in similar situations is explained in the following KB article. Basically you would be doing the same as running a system restore to a previous point under Windows
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-XP-and-Vista-discussion/XP-System-Restore-When-Normal-And-Safe-M...
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R12 : System Failed to generate the PDF Document.

I am trying to create a PO thru auto create but I hit inquire > View Document , I encountered an error: System Failed to generate the PDF Document. Please contact your system administrator. We just updgrade our instance from 11.5.2.10 to r12.1.2. Any thoughts?
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Changed the ink cartridges and got Ink system failure. Unable to print. Error: Oxc18a0101 Printer not that old and not used that much. Turned power off then on again did not help. Unplugged power and USB also did not help. Looking for help!!!
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*** Fix your HP Photosmart D7360 (Reset Code/Master Reset) ***
1- Turn off power and unplug from power source.
2- Open right side of printer (looking at the front).
3- Disconnect,by pulling gently, both white flat ribbon cables off the main circuit board.
4- Plug in power source and turn printer on. Wait till you get a error message and push "Ok".
5- Unplug power source.
6- Reconnect the flat ribbon cables by aligning and carefully pushing into the conectors on the main circuit board.
7- Plug in power source and turn printer on (Printer preparing occurred).
8- voila, the nasty error message 0xc18a0001 "Ink System has Failed" is now gone.
http://www.fixya.com/support/t451942-help
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Message Edited by AJ on 01-28-2009 05:05 PM

The system failed to merge, error code : General Access denied

The system failed to merge, error code : General Access denied. Could anyone help me on this

Hi,
It could be several things, I think it could be a good start with the following page:
https://blogs.technet.com/b/chrad/archive/2009/10/02/differencing-disks-merging-80070005-error-just-one-persons-lesson-learned.aspx
If that doesn't help you could check out the following technet page to see if it is a permission problem. (it is not exactly the same problem but one of our customers once had the same problem and we solved it with the follwing KB:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2249906/en-us
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