On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 01:10:04 -0400 [email protected] dijo: >Can you find some error messages from previous boot by sudo journalctl? > >If not - try older distro - say 16.04 - if that is stable - perhaps it >is not related to your BIOS work. if that helps - would 18.4 run >without crashes? > >It kind of feels like graphics driver issue rather than SATA - it >would probably crash during boot. > >Try disabling GUI all effects, later HW acceleration. > >Can you re-flash Thinkpad BIOS to see if that resolves it?
Thanks for the suggestions. I may have solved the problem, but it will take a long time working with it to see if it no longer hangs. My first suspect was the BIOS flash, but my second guess was video, and video struck me as easier to fix, so that's where I started. The macine has an Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M, which was using the nouveau driver. Online I found lots of complaints about this setup - not the full resolution and not using all the RAM on the chip. So I installed the Nvidia driver from the repos (not easy to figure out which one to install!), and after rebooting I saw the Nvidia logo flash by, and so far it is still running. Crossing fingers. Oh, and windows seem to be redrawing faster, although the resolution is still 1680x1050. W'll see. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
