On 10/2/2012 1:48 AM, Doug Franklin wrote:
On 2012-10-02 1:32, P. J. Alling wrote:
OK I'm at my wits end on this.
After installing an update to my Laptop the machine won't boot. Well not
quite anyway. It goes through post and then stops at a blinking curser
on a blank black screen. So I built a slipstream recovery disk with
the proper drivers on it and then attempted all manner of recovery. I
rebuilt boot.ini. Still no boot. I rebuilt the boot sector, no boot. I
rewrote the mbr, no boot. I did a full repair of windows. (Did I
mention the drive tests out as just ducky?), no boot. I reinstalled
windows preserving drivers, laptop restarts no boot. Now here's the
salient issue. I'm using it right now. On startup the laptop gives the
option for a one time boot menu, which includes all attached bootable
devices, including the internal harddrive. Just for laughs selected the
that drive and it boots! WTF. Now I know this isn't a tech forum but
heck, I've tried all of the ones I usually frequent and no one has a
solution to this. This is causing me to tear out what's left of my hair
and I don't want to look like Cotty.
Hmm, that's an odd one, dude. Did you use Windows to try to fix up
the MBR, partition boot record, etc.? If so, maybe try it again with
a Linux distribution geared to system recovery? I have to wonder if
one or more of those tools is assuming that it knows better than you
and not actually writing a new loader. It almost sounds like a UEFI
boot where the crypto certificates have gotten corrupted.
Well I got tired walked the dog, (three in the morning here), and damn
it boots! I don't know what changed, I don't know how it changed. When
things just seem to fix themselves it worries me. Oh well at least it
looks like I'll get the project I'm doing for Thursday finished.
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Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthly search.
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