Can't boot. Other than that, everything works great
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Can't boot. Other than that, everything works great
Just did dist-upgrade on an old, Pentium III Thinkpad. Got some warnings, ignored them like I always do. Now after rebooting, I get "decompressing kernel...parsing ELF....done (Then) Booting the kernel
And then just a blinking cursor and a black screen......forever.
I'm guessing that I have to load a live CD and do, uh,..something, but only 'da good lord knows what that something is, so I came here asking. How do I fix this thing?
Thanks.
And then just a blinking cursor and a black screen......forever.
I'm guessing that I have to load a live CD and do, uh,..something, but only 'da good lord knows what that something is, so I came here asking. How do I fix this thing?
Thanks.
Re: Can't boot. Other than that, everything works great
You came to the right place, just need you to add a little of ^ that and then we'll go from there.To get the quickest possible help, mention the exact release codename in your post (uname -a is a good idea, too). Due to the lack of crystal balls, attach the output of lspci -nnk if you encounter hardware problems.
That's not a good idea either, so how bout we start again if you want some help? :)Got some warnings, ignored them like I always do.
Also at the forever blinking cursor try to log in to tty.. ctrl+alt+f1 report back.
Re: Can't boot. Other than that, everything works great
Well....checked the Home page, saw that there's a new LXDE version available, and thought that might be a better way to go. So I'm downloading that, and waiting for it to complete.
That said, this is running Openbox, had just updated. Doesn't appear to be a kernel issue, I can select any kernel from Grub, still does the same thing. Without loading a live CD, I can't get to a terminal.
Ctrl/Alt/f1 doesn't change anything. This is all happening before the kernel is initiated.
That said, this is running Openbox, had just updated. Doesn't appear to be a kernel issue, I can select any kernel from Grub, still does the same thing. Without loading a live CD, I can't get to a terminal.
Ctrl/Alt/f1 doesn't change anything. This is all happening before the kernel is initiated.
Re: Can't boot. Other than that, everything works great
Too bad we can't know what the ignored warnings were :P
Is the Openbox spin from the BBQ? Were you running Darkside or penbang?
Btw, you will like Coal, and pidsley wrote a great tutorial here http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=510 in case you wanna have a look.
Is the Openbox spin from the BBQ? Were you running Darkside or penbang?
Btw, you will like Coal, and pidsley wrote a great tutorial here http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=510 in case you wanna have a look.
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Re: Can't boot. Other than that, everything works great
Seems that it is either systemd doing a fsck (did you add new partitions recently?) or recently a GRUB2 upgrade wasn't carried out correctly (ignored warnings?)
You can try to boot again, press 'e' in the boot menu, move the cursor to the part where it says init=/bin/systemd and remove this. Then press F10 to boot. It will use the traditional sysV (doesn't work on Coal, by the way!)
You can try to boot again, press 'e' in the boot menu, move the cursor to the part where it says init=/bin/systemd and remove this. Then press F10 to boot. It will use the traditional sysV (doesn't work on Coal, by the way!)
..gnutella..
Re: Can't boot. Other than that, everything works great
Yeah, I'm a fan of LXDE anyway, and I've seen that LXDE is teaming up with another group and leaning towards qt. And it will also give me a fresh live cd to look at whatever happened on this install, maybe. I did the upgrade as I was about to go somewhere, and just hit "Yeah, whatever," when the warnings came up. Hell, what upgrade doesn't tell me that the entire box is going to hell if I proceed. Usually, it all works anyway.
Usually.
Tried the 'e' during grub, then removing init=/bin/systemd. No change when I hit f10, still stops at the same line.
Usually.
Tried the 'e' during grub, then removing init=/bin/systemd. No change when I hit f10, still stops at the same line.
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Re: Can't boot. Other than that, everything works great
Ok, I see you're not married to your existing installation, so go for Coal (in South Korea, go for Coal in 88)
[BBvideo 560,340]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAnmSvB0Qag[/BBvideo]
After successful installation, please dance like one of the clowns there.
[BBvideo 560,340]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAnmSvB0Qag[/BBvideo]
After successful installation, please dance like one of the clowns there.
..gnutella..
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Re: Can't boot. Other than that, everything works great
Next time do not ignore the warnings. When you see such, post in the support forum or in "Upgrade Warnings". It exists for a reason and we provide apt-listbugs for a reason, otherwise you won't see any warnings and bork your system equally.