Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-20 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 13-12-2017, at 23h 02'29", Jason Brenkus wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot" > By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling > grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now > I'm getting mor

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-14 Thread Felix Miata
Jason Brenkus composed on 2017-12-13 23:02 (UTC-0800): > By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling > grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now > I'm getting more then a blinking cursor. The screen now says #floppy0: no > floppy

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
hardware. Good luck. On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote: Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:02:29 From: Jason Brenkus <jasonbren...@gmail.com> To: Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? <i.m.ciob...@gmail.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: please help! debian won't boot Resent-Date:

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Jason Brenkus
to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux. Any more suggestions? On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă < i.m.ciob...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please > help! debian won't boot" > > Le 13/12/20

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot" > Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit : > >On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian > >won't boot" &

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit : On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot" I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc

Re: please help! debian won't boot

2017-12-13 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot" > I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went > wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and > then goes to a screen w

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:59:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: [..] you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ [..] Uh, oh. Now I've got a choice of bt-cd or iso-cd (as well as a couple of others). Not knowing what bt

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 06:59:43PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting with networking tools. Today I didn't do much except read man pages, and I'm not aware of doing anything to change any configuration, but when I rebooted my computer

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,31.Mar.09, 18:59:43, Vwaju wrote: Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Do you have a live CD or similar? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Vwaju
Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Do you have a live CD or similar? I'm afraid not. How do I get one? Thanks for your help, Andrei Best, Vwaju NYC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,01.Apr.09, 04:56:49, Vwaju wrote: Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Do you have a live CD or similar? I'm afraid not. How do I get one? http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza
Hi Vwaju, you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ This is the official page of the project: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ Regards, Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza http://franciscossouza.blogspot.com 2009/4/1 Vwaju

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Thorny
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:59:43 -0700, Vwaju posted: For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting with networking tools. [...] I'd suggest you consider upgrading because Sarge has not been receiving security updates since last March. Of course, it might not matter to

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Vwaju
Thanks, Andrei and Francisco! Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Vwaju
I'm guessing the image I need is debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-cd/ Would that be right? Best, Vwaju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Kent West
Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza wrote: Hi Vwaju, you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ So when I go to this page I get an option of amd64 or i386. Which one do I want for a general-purpose boot-on-almost-any-machine, including an

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 15:44:06 Kent West wrote: how's a newbie who has been in Windows-land all his life and has just heard about this Debian thingy supposed to know what to do with this? He's just been told to download the Debian LiveCD as a try-it-out demo, but he's clueless. I'm not a

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza wrote: Hi Vwaju, you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ So when I go to this page I get an option of amd64 or i386. Which one do I want for a general-purpose

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza wrote: Hi Vwaju, you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ So when I go to this page I get an option of amd64 or i386. Which one do I

Re: Debian won't boot

2009-04-01 Thread C. G. Montgomery
Vwaju wrote: For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting with networking tools. Today I didn't do much except read man pages, and I'm not aware of doing anything to change any configuration, but when I rebooted my computer it stalled out at INIT: Entering

Debian won't boot

2009-03-31 Thread Vwaju
For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting with networking tools. Today I didn't do much except read man pages, and I'm not aware of doing anything to change any configuration, but when I rebooted my computer it stalled out at INIT: Entering runlevel 2 After it hangs

DEBIAN WON'T BOOT

2004-06-03 Thread J M
Debian won't boot, here's the synopsis of the problem: Most recently the computer began crashing simple programs such as Abiword when attempting to save as well as do other moderate tasks. Up until now, the OS has not given me any trouble (had it for roughly 9 mo). The other night, Debian

Re: DEBIAN WON'T BOOT

2004-06-03 Thread Kent West
J M wrote: Debian won't boot, here's the synopsis of the problem: Most recently the computer began crashing simple programs such as Abiword when attempting to save as well as do other moderate tasks. Up until now, the OS has not given me any trouble (had it for roughly 9 mo). The other

Re: DEBIAN WON'T BOOT

2004-06-03 Thread Tom Kuiper
From: J M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DEBIAN WON'T BOOT Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:25:44 -0800 Debian won't boot, here's the synopsis of the problem: Most recently the computer began crashing simple programs such as Abiword when attempting to save as well as do

Re: DEBIAN WON'T BOOT

2004-06-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:06:44PM +, Tom Kuiper wrote: From: J M [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... The debian load screen comes up, and the OS begins loading linux.bin off of the boot disk i use, it then quits and says that it failed to load the kernel, and it says I must 'switch' disk and

ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )

2003-01-29 Thread Joris Huizer
I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use sed to change the /etc/fstab back again (in case it states it's ext2

Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )

2003-01-29 Thread nate
Joris Huizer said: I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use sed to change the /etc/fstab back again (in

Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:53:40PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use

Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )

2003-01-29 Thread Joris Huizer
Ah ok... then I'll just leave it like this... --- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon

error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT

2003-01-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts.

error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT

2003-01-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts.

error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT

2003-01-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts.

Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT

2003-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:24:53AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it

Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT

2003-01-27 Thread Kent West
Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for

SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT

2003-01-27 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try

Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT

2003-01-27 Thread Kent West
Joris Huizer wrote: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message: checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)

Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT

2003-01-27 Thread Joris Huizer
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message:

Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT

2003-01-27 Thread Kent West
Joris Huizer wrote: --- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be interested in converting your ext2 file systems to ext3, Hmmm... I think I might do that allright... but before I do that: are there any (possible) problems involved with ext3 or is/was ext2 just more standard ?

Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT

2003-01-27 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Hi I would boot from the cd/floppy in rescue mode (not from the kernel on the hard-disk) and then run fsck on each ext2/3 partition. hopefully it will be able to fix all the errors. This happens from time to time when you use non-journalistic file system. you should consider using