From: Doug Franklin
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.
I think there used to be an option where you can step through loading
the drivers that prompts you for each one & you have to press 'Y' for it
to load. Tedious, but if it hangs at a particular driver, you know which
one is giving the problem.
I haven't used it in a long time, so I don't know if it's still in the
boot menu.
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