I apologize in advance for any ranting I might do. If it weren't for
iTunes, I wouldn't use Windows.
I installed a BIOS update from HP and then followed up with an upgrade
from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Upon reboot, I went right to Windows
instead of getting my gummiboot screen. No problem: ESC then F9 during
re-boot gave me my linux boot options. Everything started normally, but
then the booting stopped. The following are the last three lines of the
screen:
sh: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
sh: no job control in this shell
sh-4.2# [with a blinking cursor]
The rest of the screen output told me that the kernel had begun to boot
normally: there were four penguins so "it saw" all the cores on my
processor, devtempfs had been mounted, all of my partitions had been
identified and the the three lines before what I typed above had to do
with freeing unused kernel memory and write protecting read only data.
There is one line that got my attention and could point to the problem:
BIOS EDD facility v. 0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 drives found
I've never "studied" the output of the LFS boot this closely and that
above line could have been there every time I booted. But I had just
updated my BIOS and the "0 drives found" got my attention.
I think I have two situations. First, Windows over wrote the
bootloader--in retrospect I know that is "normal" behavior--and I'm sure
I can fix it once I can boot into linux. Second, and I'm only guessing
here, I need to recompile the kernel because of the BIOS update. I
don't know why, but that's what my intuition is telling me. A third
possibility is that this combined process has done something to the EFI
variables which can also be fixed by recompiling the kernel.
Based on the screen output I have included here, I'm hoping that someone
can tell me that my approach is reasonable or identify another
"something" that I can look at or point me to some documentation that
will help me troubleshoot.
I first must download a livecd or livedvd image so I can burn it and
boot linux. I'm going to go with Ubuntu because I know it better than
any other distro. Downloading its image will take some time. [Of
course, it's quite reasonable for someone to ask me why I'm not using my
installed version of Ubuntu. I screwed up during my LFS-7.5 build and
forgot I was operating in the chroot environment and wiped out network
capability in Ubuntu with no way to fix it.]
Thanks in advance for any help in this area.
Dan
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