RE: Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze

2013-02-21 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> Ouch! Have you ruled out hardware? Have you tried booting from a >> live-cd, knoppix, grml, something like that? > > Actually no, I have not ruled out hardware failure. In fact there are other > unusual problems > which may indicate a hardware failure. I did run the smartctl long self

Re: Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze

2013-02-20 Thread Ken Heard
On 2013-02-21 09:19, Chris Bannister wrote: > Ouch! Have you ruled out hardware? Have you tried booting from a > live-cd, knoppix, grml, something like that? Actually no, I have not ruled out hardware failure. In fact there are other unusual problems which may indicate a hardware failure. I did

Re: Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze

2013-02-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:06:25AM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze at > the end of November last. Ever since that upgrade the boot routine > frequently aborts. The kernel is installed, and the boot routine > continues as far as the point

Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze

2013-02-20 Thread Ken Heard
I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze at the end of November last. Ever since that upgrade the boot routine frequently aborts. The kernel is installed, and the boot routine continues as far as the point where the font size changes. At that point the screen goes bl