On 15 August 2014 19:49, Dan McGhee <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
I don't think it's a kernel issue. I'd check your disk assignment/UUIDs in the BIOS and grub to make sure the correct partitions are being called. Of course, I could be wrong. > 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.] > For future reference why not create a "rescue LFS" from your LFS build; that's what I've done and I keep it on a micro SD card. It's been very useful when all else fails. > > Thanks in advance for any help in this area. > Richard
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