Fix for boot failure with testing stream and 6.6.13-amd64 kernel

2024-02-13 Thread Sam Varghese
This is a post meant to help anyone who finds his/her system unbootable - as I did - after updating to the latest version of the testing stream which comes with a 6.6.13-amd64 kernel. When I updated last week, my system refused to boot. Checking revealed that the system-load-modules service wa

Re: qemu ISO Boot Failure (CDROM boot failure code : 0004)

2022-11-02 Thread Charlie Schindler
Hi did you solve this? i got this problem, too with qemu 7 and ubuntu 22.04.1 -- -- cordially Charlie Schindler +66 9 1083 7897

Re: Reports of boot failure after installing linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64, on machines with AMD graphics

2022-10-19 Thread Felix Miata
David composed on 2022-10-19 18:40 (UTC-0400): > Just a general warning, for anyone who has not noticed, that > installing the latest kernel (linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64) on a > machine with AMD graphics is causing numerous people to > report boot failures: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Re: Reports of boot failure after installing linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64, on machines with AMD graphics

2022-10-19 Thread Dan Ritter
David wrote: > Hello list, > > Just a general warning, for anyone who has not noticed, that > installing the latest kernel (linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64) on a > machine with AMD graphics is causing numerous people to > report boot failures: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=10

Reports of boot failure after installing linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64, on machines with AMD graphics

2022-10-19 Thread David
Hello list, Just a general warning, for anyone who has not noticed, that installing the latest kernel (linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64) on a machine with AMD graphics is causing numerous people to report boot failures: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022025 https://bugs.debian.org/

Re: Encrypting boot partition in guest results in boot failure libvirt qemu-kvm

2020-10-13 Thread john doe
On 10/10/2020 6:25 PM, john doe wrote: On 10/10/2020 5:10 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:06:16 +0200 john doe wrote: No, I'm not even getting the grub bootloader. If you aren't even getting to to GRUB, then your problem isn't an encrypted /boot partition, it's something el

Re: Encrypting boot partition in guest results in boot failure libvirt qemu-kvm

2020-10-10 Thread john doe
On 10/10/2020 5:10 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:06:16 +0200 john doe wrote: No, I'm not even getting the grub bootloader. If you aren't even getting to to GRUB, then your problem isn't an encrypted /boot partition, it's something else. Possibly something you did in the pr

Re: Encrypting boot partition in guest results in boot failure libvirt qemu-kvm

2020-10-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:06:16 +0200 john doe wrote: > No, I'm not even getting the grub bootloader. If you aren't even getting to to GRUB, then your problem isn't an encrypted /boot partition, it's something else. Possibly something you did in the process of encrypting /boot. Possibly a limitatio

Re: Encrypting boot partition in guest results in boot failure libvirt qemu-kvm

2020-10-09 Thread john doe
On 10/9/2020 9:45 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 19:28:59 +0200 john doe wrote: Now I would like to encrypt the boot partition,, I can succesfully encrypt the boot partition. As soon as I restart the guest, I can no longer access the guest as it will not boot at all. Are you no

Re: Encrypting boot partition in guest results in boot failure libvirt qemu-kvm

2020-10-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 19:28:59 +0200 john doe wrote: > Now I would like to encrypt the boot partition,, I can succesfully > encrypt the boot partition. > As soon as I restart the guest, I can no longer access the guest as it > will not boot at all. Are you not even getting to the grub boot loader?

Encrypting boot partition in guest results in boot failure libvirt qemu-kvm

2020-10-09 Thread john doe
Debians, I'm using libvirt with qemu-kvm to install Debian Buster VM with encrypted lvm. The installation and booting the guest works fine. Now I would like to encrypt the boot partition,, I can succesfully encrypt the boot partition. As soon as I restart the guest, I can no longer access the gu

Re: boot failure only on first try when starting computer

2016-06-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 26 Jun 2016, Peter Baranyi wrote: > >> when I turn on my desktop computer (i5 Skylake) with Debian testing, Ensure you are using the latest BIOS/UEFI. Skylake systems with an old BIOS are unsupportable and broken. This is always the first thing to verify when any Skylake-based system beh

Re: boot failure only on first try when starting computer

2016-06-26 Thread Norbert Kiszka
Dnia 2016-06-26, nie o godzinie 16:49 +0200, Peter Baranyi pisze: > thanks, I disabled quiet, I'll check the messages. > > It is a new machine, 1-2 months old. > > On 23 June 2016 at 21:57, Norbert Kiszka wrote: > > Dnia 2016-06-23, czw o godzinie 09:14 +0200, Peter Baranyi pisze: > >> hi, > >>

Re: boot failure only on first try when starting computer

2016-06-26 Thread Peter Baranyi
thanks, I disabled quiet, I'll check the messages. It is a new machine, 1-2 months old. On 23 June 2016 at 21:57, Norbert Kiszka wrote: > Dnia 2016-06-23, czw o godzinie 09:14 +0200, Peter Baranyi pisze: >> hi, >> >> when I turn on my desktop computer (i5 Skylake) with Debian testing, >> on the

Re: boot failure only on first try when starting computer

2016-06-23 Thread Norbert Kiszka
Dnia 2016-06-23, czw o godzinie 09:14 +0200, Peter Baranyi pisze: > hi, > > when I turn on my desktop computer (i5 Skylake) with Debian testing, > on the first try it always freezes right after the grub menu. Then > when I press reset, it always boots correctly. I have one SATA SSD (/, > /home), o

Re: boot failure only on first try when starting computer

2016-06-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 09:14 +0200, Peter Baranyi wrote: > hi, > > when I turn on my desktop computer (i5 Skylake) with Debian testing, > on the first try it always freezes right after the grub menu. Then > when I press reset, it always boots correctly. I have one SATA SSD > (/, > /home), one SATA

boot failure only on first try when starting computer

2016-06-23 Thread Peter Baranyi
hi, when I turn on my desktop computer (i5 Skylake) with Debian testing, on the first try it always freezes right after the grub menu. Then when I press reset, it always boots correctly. I have one SATA SSD (/, /home), one SATA HDD (only storage) and one M2 NVME SSD (not even mounted, has Windows)

RE: Boot failure after upgrade to wheezy

2014-08-13 Thread Peter McGill
like there is a bug in initramfs-tools. Peter -Original Message- From: Peter McGill [mailto:petermcg...@goco.net] Sent: August-13-14 12:21 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Boot failure after upgrade to wheezy I have 2 debian virtual machines running under Windo

Boot failure after upgrade to wheezy

2014-08-13 Thread Peter McGill
t of built-in commands. /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off (initramfs) cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 root=UUID=8cdd1090-26ac-4767-b975-05fad7d1f554 ro quiet Adding rootdelay=120 has no effect (other than delaying boot failure...) root= &

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-29 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On 2014-07-27 00:48, Brian wrote: On Sat 26 Jul 2014 at 20:32:32 +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: I tried different kernels. Same error. Only that the error message is less specific on 3.2.0 than with 3.1.14: The later always says "(error -8)". 3.14.1? Please see the date on the link below. Ob

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Jul 2014 at 10:02:41 +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-07-26, Brian wrote: > > > >dpkg-reconfigure linus-image-3.14-1-686-pae > > * > > should put the kernel and initrd in harmony. > > > > * x > > (Not a fantastic contribution to the cause, but what the heck.)

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-27 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-26, Brian wrote: > >dpkg-reconfigure linus-image-3.14-1-686-pae > * > should put the kernel and initrd in harmony. > * x (Not a fantastic contribution to the cause, but what the heck.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Jul 2014 at 20:32:32 +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > I tried different kernels. Same error. Only that the error message > is less specific on 3.2.0 than with 3.1.14: The later always says > "(error -8)". 3.14.1? Please see the date on the link below. > Obviously the error 8 is for ENOE

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.07.2014 20:49, schrieb Gregor Hoffleit: > Am 2014-07-26 20:42, schrieb Michael Biebl: >> Am 26.07.2014 20:32, schrieb Gregor Hoffleit: >>> Obviously the error 8 is for ENOEXEC - Exec format error. I wonder what >>> this could mean. The kernel is i386 (686-pae) and /sbin/init is as well >>> i3

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Jul 2014 at 20:32:32 +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Am 2014-07-26 17:10, schrieb Brian: > >>I would appreciate any hints! > > > >A d-i image such as the netinst one has a rescue mode which could help > >in any repairs to your machine. > > Thanks for the hint. I never realized how capab

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Am 2014-07-26 20:42, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 26.07.2014 20:32, schrieb Gregor Hoffleit: Obviously the error 8 is for ENOEXEC - Exec format error. I wonder what this could mean. The kernel is i386 (686-pae) and /sbin/init is as well i386. What kind of hardware do you have? Does your process

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.07.2014 20:32, schrieb Gregor Hoffleit: > Obviously the error 8 is for ENOEXEC - Exec format error. I wonder what > this could mean. The kernel is i386 (686-pae) and /sbin/init is as well > i386. What kind of hardware do you have? Does your processor support PAE? -- Why is it that all of t

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Am 2014-07-26 17:10, schrieb Brian: I would appreciate any hints! A d-i image such as the netinst one has a rescue mode which could help in any repairs to your machine. Thanks for the hint. I never realized how capable rescue mode is. But now I'm even more confused. Whatever I try, I alway

Re: Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Jul 2014 at 16:14:15 +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > I also tried to add "break=init" to the command line, but it had no > effect at all. > > Also, specifying a different init ("init=/sbin/init.sysvinit") had > no effect at all. I think that should be "init=/sbin/init". You could also

Jessie early boot failure: "/sbin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -8)" (initrd corrupt?)

2014-07-26 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
My system is running a mix of stable/testing. I managed to upgrade to systemd, which brought a whole bunch of problems, boot still booted nevertheless. But now, somehow, the system is stuck in the very early boot process: After just 1,5s the system stalls with this error: ... Failed to execu

Re: boot failure

2012-01-25 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012, Marc Auslander wrote: To update files that must be correct, one can write a new version, sync, and then use mv to replace the old with the new version. The only way to easily do that seems to always call any editor via a script doing that. The journal_data option pro

Re: boot failure

2012-01-25 Thread Marc Auslander
Pierre Frenkiel writes: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >Remains the question "how /etc/modprobe.d/options was corrupted" >May-be after a power failure, but I thought that this couldn't >happen with a ext4 file system. > The default/normal configuration of ext4 journa

Re: boot failure

2012-01-25 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: But may-be /etc/modprobe/options is used at kernel upgrade to create the initrd image. That would explain why the same error occured with my 2 kernels. Running dpkg-reconfigure, I checked that this is true Remains the question "how /etc/modp

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/01/12 23:30, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > Thus spoketh Pierre Frenkiel > unto us on Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:03:19 +0100 (CET): > > (...) >> === >> [3.903186] scsi_mod: '20a' invalid for parameter 'inq_timeout' >> done

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Brian wrote: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="scsi_mod.inq_timeout=20" That works. I checked that the value in grub.cfg has precedence, as expected, over the value in initrd. It'a a precious help in cas of boot problems. -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jan 2012 at 18:24:29 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > the quesion is: what to put after GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= ? GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="scsi_mod.inq_timeout=20" Then 'update-grub'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Brian wrote: You may already have thought of it but checking the same file on your system is worthwhile, otherwise the problem may occur again with the next kernel upgrade. According all the tests I made /etc/modprobe/options is rewritten by initrd: just replacing 20a

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Brian wrote: 'scsi_mod.inq_timeout=20a' passed to the kernel causes the same behaviour here too. The parameter should be an integer, of course. That is obvious, but what is not obvious is where this 20a comes from! that looks like a bug in the kernel upgrade procedure

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jan 2012 at 15:02:48 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi Michael, > Thank you for your quick answer. > You were right: in the unpacked /etc/modprobe.d directory, the options file > contained: > options scsi_mod inq_timeout=20a > After replacing 20a with 20, I rebuilt the in

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jan 2012 at 13:30:08 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > so apparently it's the "20a" that is passed as 'inq_timeout' to scsi_mod > that makes insmod scsi_mod fail and so the disk is not recognized. 'scsi_mod.inq_timeout=20a' passed to the kernel causes the same behaviour here too. The parame

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Brian wrote: Did these entries boot prior to yesterday? hi Brian, it was the first reboot after a kernel upgrade it's fixed now (cf my previous post) My understanding is that mails with attachments are not blocked. You could try again in your next mail by attaching

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Michael Lange wrote: If it is not grub, it must be something in the initrd; I would try to unpack the initrd with hi Michael, Thank you for your quick answer. You were right: in the unpacked /etc/modprobe.d directory, the options file contained: options scsi_m

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Brian
On Tue 24 Jan 2012 at 13:03:19 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > I had yesterday a very big boot problem: > after choosing any linux entry in the grub boot menu, > I got failure messages, and was dropped to a busybox shell Did these entries boot prior to yesterday? > I sent a post 1 hour ago wi

Re: boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, Thus spoketh Pierre Frenkiel unto us on Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:03:19 +0100 (CET): (...) > === > [3.903186] scsi_mod: '20a' invalid for parameter 'inq_timeout' > done > Gave up waiting for root device. Common problem

boot failure

2012-01-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I had yesterday a very big boot problem: after choosing any linux entry in the grub boot menu, I got failure messages, and was dropped to a busybox shell I sent a post 1 hour ago with an attachment showing these messages but it didn't reach the list (I thought that small attached files w

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2012-01-05 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Sven: On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:29:51AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: ---snip--- > It is essential to find out why it does not work. You might want to try > my sugg

Re: Boot failure between grub and kernel?

2012-01-03 Thread Steven
On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 08:53 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: [...] > > I had a hang: blank screen w/o the "Loading..." message. Waited a few > secs. and hit the reset button. > > Hugo > > No messages at all? My machine has now booted 3 times without issue since I disconnected the IDE drives, the last

Re: Boot failure between grub and kernel?

2012-01-03 Thread hvw59601
Steven wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 19:02 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: [...] But shouldn't it fail all the time then? Not if it's a race condition of some sorts, which is quote possible, see below. Since I turned off 'quiet' it hasn't failed yet... Mine has, just now, I had to reset, second tim

Re: Boot failure between grub and kernel?

2012-01-02 Thread Steven
On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 19:02 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: [...] > > But shouldn't it fail all the time then? Not if it's a race condition of some sorts, which is quote possible, see below. > Since I turned off 'quiet' it > hasn't failed yet... Mine has, just now, I had to reset, second time I turned

Re: Boot failure between grub and kernel?

2012-01-01 Thread hvw59601
Steven wrote: On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 08:04 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: [*snip*] This is a desktop with an Asus M4N98TD EVO mobo, 4GB mem, 4 HDD's. No messages anywhere about the hang. I have an Asus as well, P8H67, but this also happened with the previous board, a MSI P45 Diamond, but not until ove

Re: Boot failure between grub and kernel?

2012-01-01 Thread Steven
On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 08:04 -0600, hvw59601 wrote: [*snip*] > This is a desktop with an Asus > M4N98TD EVO mobo, 4GB mem, 4 HDD's. No messages anywhere about the hang. I have an Asus as well, P8H67, but this also happened with the previous board, a MSI P45 Diamond, but not until over a year afte

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2012-01-01 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Sven: I have executed the recommended procedure. I didn't appreciate the need for the remote login until you explained the purpose - sorry for the delay. On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:29:51AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > > > On Sa

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2012-01-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-01 18:11 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:57:09 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2012-01-01 17:46 +0100, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> On 2012-01-01 15:33 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 1

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2012-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:57:09 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-01-01 17:46 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> On 2012-01-01 15:33 +0100, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:29:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2012-01-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-01 17:46 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2012-01-01 15:33 +0100, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:29:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: T

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2012-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-01-01 15:33 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:29:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: >>> >>> That's why I suggested to log in from a second computer

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2012-01-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-01-01 15:33 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:29:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: >> >> That's why I suggested to log in from a second computer via ssh. It's >> hard to do anything with a blank screen. > > I

Re: Boot failure between grub and kernel?

2012-01-01 Thread hvw59601
Steven wrote: Hi list, First of all Happy New Year. I'm running Debian Wheezy and the past month I have this strange problem when doing a cold boot. The system hangs right after the GRUB2 selection menu, before any md raid arrays have been started. After the GRUB2 selection menu the screen only

Re: Boot failure between grub and kernel?

2012-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:09:30 +0100, Steven wrote: > First of all Happy New Year. Same to you :-) > I'm running Debian Wheezy and the past month I have this strange problem > when doing a cold boot. The system hangs right after the GRUB2 selection > menu, before any md raid arrays have been start

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2012-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:29:51 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> >>> That should work around the problem. If possible, use a second >>> machine to log in via ssh and r

Re: Boot failure between grub and kernel?

2012-01-01 Thread hvw59601
Steven wrote: Hi list, First of all Happy New Year. I'm running Debian Wheezy and the past month I have this strange problem when doing a cold boot. The system hangs right after the GRUB2 selection menu, before any md raid arrays have been started. After the GRUB2 selection menu the screen only

Boot failure between grub and kernel?

2012-01-01 Thread Steven
Hi list, First of all Happy New Year. I'm running Debian Wheezy and the past month I have this strange problem when doing a cold boot. The system hangs right after the GRUB2 selection menu, before any md raid arrays have been started. After the GRUB2 selection menu the screen only displays "Loadi

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2012-01-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-12-31 21:41 +0100, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> That should work around the problem. If possible, use a second machine >> to log in via ssh and run "rmmod nouveau; modprobe nouveau modeset=1" >> then. > > Apend

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2011-12-31 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Sven and Camaleón: Thankyou for the replies and suggestions. I have made some progress. See below. On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 04:41:11PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-12-31 16:31 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:30:30 -0700, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > > > >>

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2011-12-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-12-31 16:31 +0100, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:30:30 -0700, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > >> My nVidia GeForce 6600 GT card started to act up, so I purchased an >> inexpensive MSI N210 card (which uses the 210 nVidia chipset). The >> salesman said I'd be happier with

Re: MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2011-12-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:30:30 -0700, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: > My nVidia GeForce 6600 GT card started to act up, so I purchased an > inexpensive MSI N210 card (which uses the 210 nVidia chipset). The > salesman said I'd be happier with it! > > Sadly, after the the initial boot sequenc

MSI N210 graphics card causes boot failure

2011-12-31 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Hello: My nVidia GeForce 6600 GT card started to act up, so I purchased an inexpensive MSI N210 card (which uses the 210 nVidia chipset). The salesman said I'd be happier with it! Sadly, after the the initial boot sequence lines of text (in regular VGA font) appear, the screen goes blank, and the

Re: wheezy snapshot boot failure

2011-10-09 Thread Richard
Hi all Successfully loaded the last snapshot of Wheezy without a hitch the second time after moving the HD to another SATA port. Good news for me is that my sound card is fully recognised with kernel 3.0.1. Which point the finger of why it didn't when upgraded from squeeze at a file which is not

Re: wheezy snapshot boot failure

2011-10-09 Thread richard2
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 22:18 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 09 Oct 2011 at 22:10:19 +0100, richard2 wrote: > > > hi > > It sat at the end of its install wirh a flashind screen with a debiam > > logo on it, went to a cosole and scrolling seg fault meesage. No > > keyboard entry possible. > > This was

Re: wheezy snapshot boot failure

2011-10-09 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
09/10/2011 23:10, richard2 wrote: > hi > It sat at the end of its install wirh a flashind screen with a debiam > logo on it, went to a cosole and scrolling seg fault meesage. No > keyboard entry possible. > rebooted got a grub error > "error hd0,msdos5 read error > entering rescue mode > > > anyth

Re: wheezy snapshot boot failure

2011-10-09 Thread Brian
On Sun 09 Oct 2011 at 22:10:19 +0100, richard2 wrote: > hi > It sat at the end of its install wirh a flashind screen with a debiam > logo on it, went to a cosole and scrolling seg fault meesage. No > keyboard entry possible. This was even before you had booted into the new OS? > rebooted got a g

wheezy snapshot boot failure

2011-10-09 Thread richard2
hi It sat at the end of its install wirh a flashind screen with a debiam logo on it, went to a cosole and scrolling seg fault meesage. No keyboard entry possible. rebooted got a grub error "error hd0,msdos5 read error entering rescue mode > anything I can do ? and wth is msdos5 doing with linux ?

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-28 Thread lee
Philipp Überbacher writes: > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-27 20:57:55 +0200: > > I'm now at the point where it boots in qemu and via usb-boot from my > laptop but not in the real hardware. I need to get a serial-to-usb > adapter to diagnose further, working blind doesn't help a lot... >

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-27 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-27 20:57:55 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > However, after spending many hours on this (thanks phcoder from #grub) > > it turned out that necessary modules were missing from initramfs. > > Adding jfs was enough for the system to boot in qemu but no

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-27 Thread lee
Philipp Überbacher writes: > However, after spending many hours on this (thanks phcoder from #grub) > it turned out that necessary modules were missing from initramfs. > Adding jfs was enough for the system to boot in qemu but not for the > real hardware. I've not yet found out what's necessary f

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-26 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Joe's message of 2011-06-26 21:46:47 +0200: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:49 +0200 > Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > > > > I tried manual mounting from busybox: > > mount /dev/sda1 /root > > fails with Invalid Argument > > > > mount -t jfs /dev/sda1 /root > > fails with No suc

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-26 Thread Joe
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:49 +0200 Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > I tried manual mounting from busybox: > mount /dev/sda1 /root > fails with Invalid Argument > > mount -t jfs /dev/sda1 /root > fails with No such device > > So this is what happens during boot as well. I found a post sugg

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-26 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Philipp Überbacher's message of 2011-06-26 04:38:27 +0200: > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 22:40:59 +0200: > > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > > > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > > >> Philipp Überbacher writes: > > >> > > >> > The system wa

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 22:40:59 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > >> Philipp Überbacher writes: > >> > >> > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then > >> > drops into a shell with the (i

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread lee
Philipp Überbacher writes: > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: >> Philipp Überbacher writes: >> >> > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then >> > drops into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. >> > >> > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some re

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then drops > > into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. > > > > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some reason. > > A few weeks ago I found th

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread lee
Philipp Überbacher writes: > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then drops > into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. > > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for some reason. A few weeks ago I found that I was suddenly unable to boot a self-compiled kernel after making a cha

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Philipp's message of 2011-06-25 15:12:26 +0200: > Hi there, > I have a debian server that doesn't boot anymore since I ran > upgrade-from-grub-legacy. It uses xen. I managed to upgrade to Debian > 6 and got everything working. Well, a power outage caused my domUs to > not boot anymore

debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp
Hi there, I have a debian server that doesn't boot anymore since I ran upgrade-from-grub-legacy. It uses xen. I managed to upgrade to Debian 6 and got everything working. Well, a power outage caused my domUs to not boot anymore and while trying to deal with that I also figured I didn't complete the

Re: Finding kernel modication that caused the boot failure using git-bisect?

2011-01-13 Thread Tech Geek
Never mind. Found it in one of the Linus' post on LKML.

Finding kernel modication that caused the boot failure using git-bisect?

2011-01-11 Thread Tech Geek
Back in the days when Debian repo had the linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.2-686_2.6.30-8~bpo50+2_i386.deb kernel, I had installed on my PC. Now I have installed the current kernel package from lenny-backports -- linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686_2.6.32-29~bpo50+1_i386.deb. The problem is that the old 2.6.30 ker

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:42 PM, wrote: > Thanks for the comments and help. > > I have edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg to match my devices by UUID as > proposed, getting UUIDs from blkid /dev/md{0,1} (previously I run > blkid -g): > > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-3-686-bigmem" --clas

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-06-01 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 03:31:41AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > d.sastre.med...@gmail.com put forth on 5/30/2010 4:45 PM: > > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 02:24:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> What happens when you use LILO instead of Grub? > > > > I haven't tried that yet. > > [ snip ] > > But

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-06-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
d.sastre.med...@gmail.com put forth on 5/30/2010 4:45 PM: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 02:24:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> What happens when you use LILO instead of Grub? > > I haven't tried that yet. > > First thing would be to know if the bootloader is to blame for not > having a bootable s

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-06-01 Thread Antonio Perez
d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: > Thanks for the comments and help. > > I have edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg to match my devices by UUID as > proposed, getting UUIDs from blkid /dev/md{0,1} (previously I run > blkid -g): Good. > It doesn't boot. Bummer. > Note a added `rootdelay=15' and removed

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-31 Thread d . sastre . medina
Thanks for the comments and help. I have edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg to match my devices by UUID as proposed, getting UUIDs from blkid /dev/md{0,1} (previously I run blkid -g): menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-3-686-bigmem" --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:13 AM, wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 05:44:22PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:06 AM, David Sastre Medina >> wrote: >> > >> > Grub2 is failing to boot a softRAID1 + LVM2 squeeze box. >> > >> > r...@sysresccd /root % mdadm --detail /dev/md0 >> > /dev

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-30 Thread Antonio Perez
d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 05:44:22PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:06 AM, David Sastre Medina >> wrote: >> > >> > Grub2 is failing to boot a softRAID1 + LVM2 squeeze box. I use an equivalent setup and it was all automatically setup correctly wi

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-30 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 02:24:41PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > What happens when you use LILO instead of Grub? I haven't tried that yet. First thing would be to know if the bootloader is to blame for not having a bootable system. As of now, it would be some timming issues related to initramfs-

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
What happens when you use LILO instead of Grub? d.sastre.med...@gmail.com put forth on 5/30/2010 6:13 AM: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 05:44:22PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:06 AM, David Sastre Medina >> wrote: >>> >>> Grub2 is failing to boot a softRAID1 + LVM2 squeeze box. >>>

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-30 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 05:44:22PM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:06 AM, David Sastre Medina > wrote: > > > > Grub2 is failing to boot a softRAID1 + LVM2 squeeze box. > > > > r...@sysresccd /root % mdadm --detail /dev/md0 > > /dev/md0: > > ... > >           UUID : 8052f7d4:54a97fb

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-29 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 7:06 AM, David Sastre Medina wrote: > > Grub2 is failing to boot a softRAID1 + LVM2 squeeze box. > The error is "can't find root_vg-root_lv". After that, it drops me to > a initrd shell, but my USB keyboard stops working, so I must > button-reboot. > There are two kernels i

Re: [ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-29 Thread d . sastre . medina
I think my previous post requires some more info: I've got three HDs, two of them (twin disks) have two partitions, one /boot partition (md0) and the other one for LVM filesystems (md1), where root_vg-root_lv lives (among others). The third disk is unpatitioned, and has one only lv (var_lv) So, p

[ squeeze ] Grub2 RAID1 LVM2 boot failure

2010-05-29 Thread David Sastre Medina
Hello, Grub2 is failing to boot a softRAID1 + LVM2 squeeze box. The error is "can't find root_vg-root_lv". After that, it drops me to a initrd shell, but my USB keyboard stops working, so I must button-reboot. There are two kernels installed. I've attached grub.cfg. It's an automated cfg from upd

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device" [Solved]

2009-07-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 21:52, lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:04:12PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:18, Raphael >> Bossek wrote: >> > My problem is "Resourse or device busy" at this moment within the initrd >> > environment afer hparm -z reloaded the partitionta

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