On 24/06/12 18:23, Tim wrote:
On 24/06/12 17:14, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:38:19 +0100, [email protected] said:
r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: unable to loadfirmware patch
rtl-nic/rt18168e-3.fw (-2)
Does that file exist? It should be in /lib/firmware.
No
I have also tried disabling the
network interface on the PC which did not help. If I could at least get
the PC to boot up to the desktop it would help.
This won't get you a GUI, but it'll get you a root login (but with
nothing
_at all_ running). At the grub prompt, edit the command line and append
'init=/bin/bash' to the line specifying the kernel, then boot. You'll be
dropped straight into a root shell.
Alternatively, boot a rescue CD (I favour
http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage, but any will do). That
will allow you to examine /lib/firmware, and will also allow you to
set up
networking if you need to copy a file onto your system.
I favour the gui route I am not a very good at cli
From the boot disk I can access the PC hard disk and make changes but
I don't know what files to modify so that I can switch of the network
and then let the PC boot to a desktop. I am also going off in search
of this rtl-nic/rt18168e-3.fw file and then maybe put it in the
lib/firmware folder and see what happens.
Tim
Ok updating my own post, I realised that the boot disk I was using was
happy accessing the internet so I checked the lib/firmware folder and
there was an rtl-nic folder complete with the rt18168e-3.fw file in the
folder, so I copied the whole folder over and tried booting the PC,
still won't boot past network configuring
Tim
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