On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:48:08 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>OK, now I,ve done it. My Thinkpad T61 with Fedora 16, x86_64 hangs at >the Thinkpad splash screen. It says "To interrupt normal startup, >press the blue ThinkVantage button." From past experience, pressing >this button takes me to the BIOS configuration page, but now it does >nothing. It just hangs, no flashing lights, nada. > >This occurred while rebooting the umpteenth time today. The reason for >the reboots is that I have been trying to get Virtualbox running >again. For my most recent exercise I uninstalled 3.2 and installed 4.1 >with Yumex. These are the Oracle versions, not the OSE versions. >Virtualbox launches fine, but when I try to start either of the >Windows virtual machines the computer locks up. /var/log/messages is >silent. > >I know nothing of BIOS problems. At the moment my main computer is >dead and I need it back ASAP. Well, I no sooner than hit the Send button after typing that on my desktop computer, and suddenly the Thinkpad started booting. Fedora came up normally, and here I am. Obviously, the first thing I will do is a thorough backup, although I have copies of everything important elsewhere. Corralling them all for a reinstall would be a pain, where a complete backup would make things simpler, as well as more secure. But in the meantime I don't dare shut the computer down. Is something wrong with my BIOS? How to test? Is it related to the Virtualbox issues? How could a hang of the computer cause the BIOS not to be able to find Grub, or whatever it finds to boot Linux? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
