Re: Boot problems: atombios stuck in loop for more than 5secs aborting [was: empty subject]

2018-08-18 Thread Curt
On 2018-08-17, wrote: > > I fear I can't help you with that -- but I "decorated" your mail subject > a bit for others to find it. The subject was garnished for me. I saw: [radeon]] *ERROR* atombios stuck in loop from Tom Arnall or (or maybe tom arnall, or e.e. cummings). > Cheers > - -- t >

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-25 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Everything is back up and running. > > Gremlins.. > > Thanks for your help! I'm glad that it's working. You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
I ran a shutdown -h now from recovery mode, and now the system boots into normal mode without errors. I misspoke - I have grub2. /boot/grub/grub.cfg: root@hammerhead:/home/mark# cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates #

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Phillips
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Mark Phillips > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips >> wrote: >>> >>> I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server >>> (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I g

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:09:03PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: >Or, do you mean > >update−initramfs -u This was the command I was thinking of. Basically, "unable to mount root fs" usually means that the kernel (in conjunction with the initramfs) can't find your root file system. If you'r

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Or, do you mean *update-initramfs -u * *Mark * On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Darac, > > It is a "normal" ext2 file system. A single IDE drive in an old Dell > workstation (Optiplex GX260). It has been running for many years with > successive kernels. > > Before I scre

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Darac, It is a "normal" ext2 file system. A single IDE drive in an old Dell workstation (Optiplex GX260). It has been running for many years with successive kernels. Before I screw things up any more, is this what you are recommending that I run from recovery mode? #dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Phillips
Tom, Yes, I looked in /boot/grub.cfg and the lines for the menu entries for both normal boot and recovery mode are identical except regular boot says quiet and recovery says single. Still can't get it to boot. Mark On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server > (Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error > > kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown -block(0,0) > > One of the updat

Re: Boot Problems with 2.6.32-5-686 Kernel

2013-10-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: >I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade this morning on an old server >(Debian Squeeze) and the system won't boot now. I get the error > >kernel panic not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown >-block(0,0)

Re: boot problems (I think)

2011-11-05 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, A system at a remote site cannot be reached via ssh and is not reacting to a ping after a reboot. This system has been rebooted in the past and had no problems booting. I will be going over there later this evening to find out what has gone wrong. The system is a HP server with iLo and a s

RE: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Jatin Patel
ser@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: boot problems Hi Jatin Patel Jatin Patel wrote: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they were > ISO images. I assume here you mean the full CD-set debian 3.0 r5 (= woody revision 5). This

RE: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Jatin Patel
-Original Message- From: Christian Mack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 May 2005 13:23 To: Jatin Patel Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: boot problems Hi Jatin Patel Jatin Patel wrote: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05

Re: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Christian Mack
Hi Jatin Patel Jatin Patel wrote: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they were > ISO images. I assume here you mean the full CD-set debian 3.0 r5 (= woody revision 5). This has definitely nothing to do with development of the new installer of sarge, so you

RE: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Jatin Patel
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 May 2005 14:14 To: Jatin Patel Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-boot Subject: Re: boot problems Il giorno ven, 20-05-2005 alle 11:27 +0100, Jatin Patel ha scritto: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they we

Re: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Il giorno ven, 20-05-2005 alle 11:27 +0100, Jatin Patel ha scritto: > hello, > > I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they were > ISO images. > > Unfortunately when i out disk 1 into the computer boots up this is the > message "attempting to boot from hard disk", "LI", "

Re: boot problems

2005-05-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Jatin Patel ha escrit, a 20/05/05 12:27: | hello, | | I have downloaded debian 3.05 and have burnt these to disks, they were | ISO images. | | Unfortunately when i out disk 1 into the computer boots up this is the | message "attempting to boot fro

Re: boot problems with grub

2004-10-01 Thread Jonathan
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:50:57PM -0700, Jonathan wrote: > I have been using debian with kernel 2.4.25 (I tried 2.6.8 but it had issues > with my onboard sound and so I stuck with 2.4.25). > My problem is the following: > > I left emule running overnight (which was never a problem before). I >

Re: boot problems with grub

2004-10-01 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 01:50:57PM -0700, Jonathan wrote: > I have been using debian with kernel 2.4.25 (I tried 2.6.8 but it had issues > with my onboard sound and so I stuck with 2.4.25). > My problem is the following: > > I left emule running overnight (which was never a problem before). I > f

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread sean finney
a few ideas to try: - uncomment lba32 and comment out linear - check to make sure your kernel is at /vmlinuz and not /boot/vmlinuz - compare the differences between your floppie's lilo.conf (if it uses lilo) and that in /etc - in case you haven't run lilo from the cmdline after making each chang

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
#lba32 linear boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map delay=20 prompt timeout=150 vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=Linux-2.4.14 read-only optional # /etc/fstab: static file s

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread Joshua Lee
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD. > The boot process stops at "L" with no error. > I have tried adding "Linear" to lilo.conf > and I have also run liloconfig. Any suggestion? If lba32 instead of linear doesn't work as

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya lance On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, sean finney wrote: > could you post your lilo.conf and fstab? > > sean > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > > I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD. > > The boot process stops at "L" with no error. > > I have tried

Re: boot problems

2003-01-11 Thread sean finney
could you post your lilo.conf and fstab? sean On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:14:34AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I can boot from a floppy but not from the HD. > The boot process stops at "L" with no error. > I have tried adding "Linear" to lilo.conf > and I have also run liloconfig. Any

Re: boot problems

2001-12-29 Thread Dan Owens
On Saturday 29 December 2001 03:05 am, Paul wrote: > I have a debian system on kernel 2.2.17 hehe > > I get an error on boot > > kernel panic No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel > > It became unbootable after an apt-get upgrade > Any Ideas ? > Chances are it is looking for a line lik

Re: Boot Problems

2001-06-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Nick" == Nick Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nick> While booting up this morning, it says it cannot initialize the Nick> initial console and bascially falls into a "rebooting loop" Nick> where it will get back to that that point in the boot sequence, Nick> and reboot itself again. Try

Re: boot problems take 2

2001-01-06 Thread D-Man
Thank you Brian and Gary for replying. It is working now. I recently discovered rsync and used it to copy my home directory from RH to Debian. Just now I used it instead of cp to put the kernel image on C:\ and it is working now. Apparently cp messed up the file. Now I'm upgrading to 2.2.18 k

Re: boot problems take 2

2001-01-05 Thread Brian May
> "D-Man" == D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: D-Man> Does nobody have any suggestions? I see lots of helpful D-Man> suggestions on the list daily, but no comments on my D-Man> problem yet. I think you need to show more detail. For instance, I have seen somebody make the mistak

Re: Boot problems.

2000-03-08 Thread Marshal Wong
I believe someone mentioned just earlier on the list that you need to boot using the terca boot images for the Athlon. Try searching the archives within the last week or so. > "Nick" == Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi i'm having problems Installing Debian. It freezes during t

Re: Boot problems

1998-12-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote: : Reply-To: : Hi : : A few days ago I reported a problem booting from the stock 2.0.34 kernel : distributed with Debian. My laptop just rebooted after displaying "loading : Linux .". I fixed it by compiling my own kernel fronm the 3.0.36 sourc

Re: Boot problems with lilo

1998-09-10 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:06:18PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > > [ snip ] > > : Any ideas why lilo is unwilling to work on this drive? > : The drive has about 8000 (aprox) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors > (obviously) > > Did you try the "

Re: Boot problems with lilo

1998-09-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: [ snip ] : Any ideas why lilo is unwilling to work on this drive? : The drive has about 8000 (aprox) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors (obviously) Did you try the "linear" option in lilo.conf? Also, try commenting out "compact" if it isn't already

Re: Boot problems: PCI device(s) unrecognized..

1998-06-04 Thread W Paul Mills
This means that the code to recognize the card in the kernel is not there. Everything will still work OK as the driver is there and will load. I used to patch pci.h before compiling a kernel to get rid of this for me. With the latest kernel this has been *fixed*. On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Gregory Guthr

Re: Boot problems: PCI device(s) unrecognized..

1998-06-03 Thread Bernt T. Hansen
Gregory: I got the same thing on my system. I ran it for months with no problems with 2.0.32. When I upgraded to 2.0.33 the messages went away. Regards, Bernt. > When I boot, I get: > > > pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f9a20 > > pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Dire

Re: Boot Problems

1997-10-03 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Russ Cook wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit.] : I have built a custom kernel (2.0.30) to remove unnecessary file system : support, and add IP Masquerading. I've followed the instructions in : /usr/src/linux/README. I've made a boot floppy with the new kernel, and I : r