'Twas brillig, and Maurice Batey at 20/03/13 22:03 did gyre and gimble: > On my netbook, the bread-and-butter install is Mageia-2, but I have also > been trying Mageia-3B2 to try to check out the Broadcom WiFi situation. > > Until the last Cauldron update I made 2 weeks ago, all has gone well, > except the last time I used it was difficult to boot it, often needing 2-3 > attempts. > > Today I checked again and it repeatedly failed to boot. > (Mageia-2 still boots reliably.) > > When the Mageia-3B2 boot starts, it gets as far as 3 bubbles over the > cauldron, then the screen goes blank, there is still a lot of disk activity > for a few seconds, then nothing - even after 5 minutes. > However , if I then tap the netbook's 'off' switch, momentarily I see a > cauldron with *5* bubbles flash onto the screen before the screen dies from > power-down. > > I could access the Mageia-3B2 install from Mageia-2 if anyone can suggest > what settings might be usefully checked and/or changed. > > In the meantime my Mageia-3B2 is dead in the water...
Have you tried switching to ctl+alt+f2 to see if you get a text login? Failing that, edit your kernel command line, and remove the quiet and splash options, and add systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=console+journal Then see how far you get. It's likely waiting for something to complete, or some job had to be ejected due to initscript conflicts etc. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
