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