Hi list, First of all Happy New Year.
I'm running Debian Wheezy and the past month I have this strange problem when doing a cold boot. The system hangs right after the GRUB2 selection menu, before any md raid arrays have been started. After the GRUB2 selection menu the screen only displays "Loading, please wait..." and hangs indefinitely. Hitting the reset button works most of the time, but occasionally additional attempts are needed. In a normal situation the screen would display the same "Loading, please wait..." message, but immediately followed by the messages that the md raid arrays have been started (Still "loading please wait" message on top, which disappears as the screen starts scrolling) and after that all other messages from a normal boot. First I thought it might be my new keyboard (bluethooth with a USB dongle) as that is when it started happening. The problem still persists when booting without that keyboard. Both motherboard, CPU and RAM have been replaced (due to other issues) in the meantime, no change. I did a short SMART self-test on every drive, no problems detected. There is no entry whatsoever in the system logs about a failed attempt. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed? Or what might be the cause of the problem? Kind regards, Steven
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