Introduction

A Boot-Info is a diagnosis report that helps detecting anomalies in your system or boot parameters. It is a kind of "instant picture of your system", it is not a backup.

On the Ubuntu forums, you will often be asked to indicate your Boot-Info, in order to help people understand your problem.

Two methods are recommended to easily create this report:

Standard method: from an Ubuntu disc

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt update

sudo apt install -y boot-info && boot-info

https://i.imgur.com/JDp0Qag.png

Alternative method: via Boot-Repair-Disk

https://i.imgur.com/dVghya8.png

Remarks

- the Boot-Info is an instant "picture" of your main system parameters. It does not change the boot nor the system files of the computer. You can redo this procedure any times you want.

- if internet was not connected during the procedure, or if you chose local report, the tool will not indicate an URL, but will display the Boot-Info report in a text viewer. This is less convenient than the URL, as you will have to copy-paste the content of this file on the forums between [CODE] and [/CODE] tags.

- if you forgot to note the URL, redo the procedure.

- once you indicated the URL to someone, people will open this URL in their web browser to see the content of the report.

- the suggested repair at the bottom of the Boot-Info corresponds to the default repair of the Boot-Repair utility. If you click the recommended repair button of Boot-Repair, it will perform these repair operations, then display a log of the repair (which allow to detect some problems that would not be seen via a standard Boot-Info, eg a Flexnet error).

- if you are not in hurry, do not click the Recommended repair before you get green light from experienced helpers on the forum.

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Boot-Info (last edited 2022-01-18 21:38:33 by yannubuntu)