Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello, > > Christopher Lemmer Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis: > >> The problem I have been having though, and it seems to be with increased >> frequency, is that it frequently seems to freeze before booting. >> >> I can type in my passphrase, after about 10 seconds of waiting it will >> say "Slot 0 unlocked." Usually if things are ok, it goes to the Grub >> menu screen and then it will boot from there... if I make it past the >> Grub menu, everything is (mostly) fine. >> >> Unfortunately, I have to sometimes try up to 30 times before it will >> boot, because it either freezes at: >> - right after "Slot 0 unlocked" >> - right after the menu selection on the Grub menu is made, before >> booting into the OS proper. > > Woow. FWIW I’ve never experienced that on my UEFI/x86_64 laptop in the > last couple of years. > > If you do find out more, I’d be curious to learn what it was! > > Ludo’.
My suspicion is something hard drive related. (FWIW this isn't the original hard drive that came with the laptop, I upgraded it.) I'll try replacing that and see if I get better results... otherwise I guess I'll hand it back into repairs.