10 августа 2015 г. 7:46:23 CEST, Jason Matthews <[email protected]> пишет: > > >On 8/9/2015 1:58 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> The bios clock appears to be maintaining correct time. Not sure if >> that means anything in terms of cmos battery. > >if you have never had to change the time since the episode occurred >then >that i negative indicator that you lost your bios settings to due the >battery. In other words, if you the clock is good now and you havent >reset it because the clock was off by years, then your cmos battery is >probably good and we can move on. > >this is also a negative indicator that your bios settings were lost. >that doesnt mean someone didnt change them but if you are confident no >has changed them then you can probably rule out the sata configuration. > >this primarly leaves actual media, electrical, or mechanical errors on >the disk or the controller. do you hear a "click click click" happening > >in a consistent pattern? >>> also, remove any lines that look like this: >>> splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >>> foreground 343434 >>> background F7FbFF >>> >> When I edit those out, inside grub, and then (b) boot on the kernel >line, it >> fails immediately with an error message I foolishly did not record. >> But apparently temporaryily removing those lines thru grub appears to >> cause an immediate failure. > >so this is the meat and potatoes of the problem. removing those lines >just tells grub not to change the background colors or put up a fancy >splash screen that can hide errors from you. please attempt to record >the error so we can take the problem from here. > >thanks, >j. > >_______________________________________________ >openindiana-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
In particular, adding -kv options to the grub command line for kernel arguments will kick in verbose+kmdb modes and fall into debugger instead of rebooting instantly. This would retain you (much of the) stacktrace before reboot. Or you can be crafty with a quick photo series ;) -- Typos courtesy of K-9 Mail on my Samsung Android _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
