Restored Linux Machine Fails to Boot

Challenge An issue with initiramfs may cause the restored Linux machine to fail to boot with the following symptoms: ForRHEL/CentOS/SUSE systems, during the boot process, they will drop into the dracut emergency shell and display errors similar to: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout...

PVS 7.15 - Unable to boot target devices due to TFTP timeout error

While booting up PVS 7.15 target devices, it fails with "PXE - E32: TFTP open timeout"...

USN-3522-4 linux-lts-xenial regression

USN-3522-2 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to address Meltdown CVE-2017-5754. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression where a few systems failed to boot successfully. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience...

Error "Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file referencing unirsd.sys

When trying to edit a layer or publish an image with any Elastic Layering option turned on basically, any operation where our filter drivers are involved, the machine will have a boot failure, referencing File: \Windows\system32\DRIVERS\unirsd.sys, Status: 0xc0000428, Info: Windows cannot verify...

App Layering: Published image to PVS prompts user to restart computer

Customer publishes an image to PVS. When the machine boots up, it prompts for a restart with a box like this: "You must restart your computer to apply these changes." This is telling you that a new device has been detected and the driver has been installed, but Windows must restart to properly...

Citrix Provisioned Target Fails To PXE Boot With Infoblox DHCP

When trying to PXE boot provisioning service target Virtual machines, it was failing with the following error Could not start download: operation not supported' Target Virtual Machine able to receive the DHCP IP from Infoblox Appliancebut not able to download ARDBP32.bin from the TFTP server...

App Layering/Unidesk: Boot failure after windows updates cmimcext.sys

Windows updates causes server to fail boot with error message file missing cmimcext.sys. BSOD with0xc000000f stop code. This can apply to a newly imported OS layer or to a new version of an existing OS layer...

PVS target on ESXi hardware v10 and v11, fails to boot at "Starting Windows"

Target Devices Failing to boot,hanging at "Starting Windows" Wireshark trace shows Single IO phase of boot but BNIStack driver does not get loaded and no MIO Phase starts...

“Target Device boot fails with error PXE-E55 : ProxyDHCP service did not reply to request on port 4011"

“Target Device boot fails with error PXE-E55 : ProxyDHCP service did not reply to request on port 4011"...

Provisioning Services Target Device Boots Up with BSOD 0xBC

Provisioning Services targets randomly start up to the Windows splash screen and stop at blue screen 0x000000BC. This error translates to a duplicate network address...

XenServer Fails to Boot with Boot from SAN Root Disk Multipathing:"Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)"

The XenServer host has recently been updated with a hotfix that updates the kernel. After patching the XenServer host is in a boot loop. During startup there is a message"Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block0,0" followed by a call trace: The initrd file size i...

XenServer Pool Master is Unable to Boot with Error: "unexpected inconsistency; Run fsck Manually"

The following error is displayed when booting XenServer pool master: "Unexpected inconsistency; Run fsck Manually" The df -h command shows filesystem is read only...

BSOD Error: "STOP 0x0000007E CVhdMp.sys with Kaspersky antivirus

When booting from the Network, to run the Imaging Wizard or simply to boot from a vDisk, the following Blue Screen message is displayed: STOP 0x0000007E CVhdMp.sys Error: BNIStack failed, network stack could not be initialized...

August 23, 2016 — KB3176934 (OS Build 14393.82)

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CVE-2015-5900

CVE-2015-5900: Affects Apple OS X EFI component; an incorrect value in the protected range register allows a crafted app to write to an unintended address, causing a denial of service via boot failure. Root cause: EFI protected range misconfig. Impact: boot process disruption. Remediation/fix det...

CVE-2015-5900

The protected range register in the EFI component in Apple OS X before 10.11 has an incorrect value, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service boot failure via a crafted app that writes to an unintended address...

Error: "Connection Timed Out (0x4c126035) When Connecting to vDisk on Citrix Provisioning Services

Error 1 : "Connection timed out 0x4c126035 with tftp://0.0.0.0/ARDBP32.bin"" Error 2 :"Could not boot from file name “ARDP32.bin”"...

Cisco Unified IP Phones 9900 Series Local Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-00920)

Cisco Unified IP Phone 9900 is a 9900 series IP phone terminal equipment from Cisco USA. The device provides voice, video, and other features. A security vulnerability exists in the Cisco Unified IP Phone 9900 Series. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 9828)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 Xen package was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - XSA-108: CVE-2014-7188: Improper MSR range used for x2APIC emulation. bnc897657 - XSA-106: CVE-2014-7156: Missing privilege level checks i...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-SU-2013:1953-1)

Xen was updated to 4.2.3 c/s 26170 to fix various bugs and security issues. Following issues were fixed : - bnc845520 - CVE-2013-4416: xen: ocaml xenstored mishandles oversized message replies - bnc833483 - Boot Failure with xen kernel in UEFI mode with error 'No memory for trampoline' -...