On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot" > Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit : > >On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian > >won't boot" > >>I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went > >>wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and > >>then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no > >>matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that > >>says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no > >>amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for > >>my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before > >>the system didn't boot was install a mining program. > > > >Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub. > > IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is > broken ?
When you do not know too much about what is the status of the system anything may be a total waste of time. In the past when using Lilo I got this kind of behaviour. Instead of loading the kernel, just after BIOS I would ket a blinking cursor. > >It is important to know if the system stops before or after > >loading the kernel, etc. > > We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface is > activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the initramfs > was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks. Then you know more than me. I will say then that X config is broken. What induced me in error was the word cursor. For me that was in tty1 a blinking underscore line. What Jason may have meant was an X shape mouse, for example. Ionel
