Re: please help! debian won't boot
On 13-12-2017, at 23h 02'29", Jason Brenkus wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot" > By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling > grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now > I'm getting more then a blinking cursor. The screen now says #floppy0: no > floppy controllers found > # r8169 :03:00.0 eth0: link up > # Ipv6: ADDCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. > > I tried to record the script that show before this screen and it looks like > there is a lot loading, but I saw one place in the script that had a red > FAILED and it looks like it says #failed to start load kernel modules > It would probably be easier to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux. > Any more suggestions? > Not more that what already was discussed. It looks like your Debian boots fine. Try to access a console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn, where n=2-6, or with Shift-Fn, if Ctrl-Alt-Fn doesn't work. Then login at the console and check the logs. If you have another computer you can try to ping or even ssh into this Debian box. You can check your router and try to identify from the dhcp clients list which one can be your Debian box. If you have no other computers and you can't get into any console, try to boot with a live disk, mount the harddrive and check the logs for clues on what went wrong. My best guess at the moment is that your kdm/gdm/xdm and X11 cannot start due to a faulty xorg.conf file. All those messages that disappeared are still there. You can get back to it with Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Shift-F1. Ionel
Re: please help! debian won't boot
Jason Brenkus composed on 2017-12-13 23:02 (UTC-0800): > By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling > grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now > I'm getting more then a blinking cursor. The screen now says #floppy0: no > floppy controllers found > # r8169 :03:00.0 eth0: link up > # Ipv6: ADDCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. Did you try keying in Ctrl-Alt-F2 after seeing nothing more? > I tried to record the script that show before this screen and it looks like > there is a lot loading, but I saw one place in the script that had a red > FAILED and it looks like it says #failed to start load kernel modules > It would probably be easier to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux. > Any more suggestions? What did you mean when you wrote "recover mode"? Was that a Grub menu choice? Were there any other menu choices available, such as prior kernel? You could try appending to the main grub selection "plymouth.enable=0', and/or removing any cmdline options mentioning modeset, quiet, splash, gfxmode, vga and/or video. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
Re: please help! debian won't boot
When you downloaded what you used to install debian, did the file have a .torrent on the end of it? If not you may have better luck by using a bittorrent client and downloading the torrent form of the file. Reason is integrity checks get done as you download and it could be you got a bad download using another form of download file. Another suggestion I would make since you may have some pretty far out hardware is to download the image that starts with firmware- and ends with .torrent. It should also have x86 somewhere in the name of the image to match as closely as possible your hardware. Good luck. On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote: Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:02:29 From: Jason Brenkus <jasonbren...@gmail.com> To: Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? <i.m.ciob...@gmail.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: please help! debian won't boot Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 07:02:48 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now I'm getting more then a blinking cursor. The screen now says #floppy0: no floppy controllers found # r8169 :03:00.0 eth0: link up # Ipv6: ADDCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. I tried to record the script that show before this screen and it looks like there is a lot loading, but I saw one place in the script that had a red FAILED and it looks like it says #failed to start load kernel modules It would probably be easier to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux. Any more suggestions? On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? < i.m.ciob...@gmail.com> wrote: On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot" Le 13/12/2017 ? 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? a ?crit : On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot" I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before the system didn't boot was install a mining program. Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub. IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is broken ? When you do not know too much about what is the status of the system anything may be a total waste of time. In the past when using Lilo I got this kind of behaviour. Instead of loading the kernel, just after BIOS I would ket a blinking cursor. It is important to know if the system stops before or after loading the kernel, etc. We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface is activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the initramfs was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks. Then you know more than me. I will say then that X config is broken. What induced me in error was the word cursor. For me that was in tty1 a blinking underscore line. What Jason may have meant was an X shape mouse, for example. Ionel --
Re: please help! debian won't boot
By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now I'm getting more then a blinking cursor. The screen now says #floppy0: no floppy controllers found # r8169 :03:00.0 eth0: link up # Ipv6: ADDCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. I tried to record the script that show before this screen and it looks like there is a lot loading, but I saw one place in the script that had a red FAILED and it looks like it says #failed to start load kernel modules It would probably be easier to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux. Any more suggestions? On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă < i.m.ciob...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please > help! debian won't boot" > > Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit : > > >On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! > debian won't boot" > > >>I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went > > >>wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load > and > > >>then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens > no > > >>matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen > that > > >>says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no > > >>amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct > drivers for > > >>my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did > before > > >>the system didn't boot was install a mining program. > > > > > >Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub. > > > > IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is > > broken ? > > When you do not know too much about what is the status of the system > anything may be a total waste of time. > > In the past when using Lilo I got this kind of behaviour. Instead of > loading the kernel, just after BIOS I would ket a blinking cursor. > > > >It is important to know if the system stops before or after > > >loading the kernel, etc. > > > > We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface is > > activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the > initramfs > > was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks. > > Then you know more than me. I will say then that X config is broken. > > What induced me in error was the word cursor. For me that was in tty1 > a blinking underscore line. What Jason may have meant was an X shape > mouse, for example. > > Ionel > >
Re: please help! debian won't boot
On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please help! debian won't boot" > Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit : > >On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian > >won't boot" > >>I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went > >>wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and > >>then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no > >>matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that > >>says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no > >>amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for > >>my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before > >>the system didn't boot was install a mining program. > > > >Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub. > > IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is > broken ? When you do not know too much about what is the status of the system anything may be a total waste of time. In the past when using Lilo I got this kind of behaviour. Instead of loading the kernel, just after BIOS I would ket a blinking cursor. > >It is important to know if the system stops before or after > >loading the kernel, etc. > > We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface is > activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the initramfs > was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks. Then you know more than me. I will say then that X config is broken. What induced me in error was the word cursor. For me that was in tty1 a blinking underscore line. What Jason may have meant was an X shape mouse, for example. Ionel
Re: please help! debian won't boot
Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit : On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot" I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before the system didn't boot was install a mining program. Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub. IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is broken ? It is important to know if the system stops before or after loading the kernel, etc. We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface is activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the initramfs was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks.
Re: please help! debian won't boot
On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot" > I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went > wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and > then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no > matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that > says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no > amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for > my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before > the system didn't boot was install a mining program. Hi, Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub. Boot with a live disk or with the install disk and reinstall grub. If you need help with all the steps please ask. But also try to capture the last two lines or so when the system is booting before it gets to the blank screen. It is important to know if the system stops before or after loading the kernel, etc. Good luck. Ionel P.S. I took the liberty to correct debain into debian.
Re: Debian won't boot
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:59:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: [..] you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ [..] Uh, oh. Now I've got a choice of bt-cd or iso-cd (as well as a couple of others). Not knowing what bt stands for, I'll guess I'm I think the bt stands for bittorrent. -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 06:59:43PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting with networking tools. Today I didn't do much except read man pages, and I'm not aware of doing anything to change any configuration, but when I rebooted my computer it stalled out at INIT: Entering runlevel 2 After it hangs here, it starts printing out messages of the form: Out of Memory: Killed process 2253 (sysklogd) If I scroll back on the monitor, there are a number of messages like this: modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting pciehp modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting shpchp modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting hw_random modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting rtc What is going on here? Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Since it hangs after entering runlevel 2, you may try booting single (runlevel 1). If it still hangs, try booting with init=/bin/sh which will not run any initscripts. You can then run them in order with a 'start' paratmeter. This way, you'll figure out exactly where the problem is. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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On Tue,31.Mar.09, 18:59:43, Vwaju wrote: Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Do you have a live CD or similar? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian won't boot
Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Do you have a live CD or similar? I'm afraid not. How do I get one? Thanks for your help, Andrei Best, Vwaju NYC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
On Wed,01.Apr.09, 04:56:49, Vwaju wrote: Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Do you have a live CD or similar? I'm afraid not. How do I get one? http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian won't boot
Hi Vwaju, you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ This is the official page of the project: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ Regards, Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza http://franciscossouza.blogspot.com 2009/4/1 Vwaju l...@manhattanhandyman.com Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Do you have a live CD or similar? I'm afraid not. How do I get one? Thanks for your help, Andrei Best, Vwaju NYC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:59:43 -0700, Vwaju posted: For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting with networking tools. [...] I'd suggest you consider upgrading because Sarge has not been receiving security updates since last March. Of course, it might not matter to you if the system is never connected to the Internet or used by users other than yourself and you are sure it hasn't been or can't be compromised. I don't mean to suggest the issue you detailed is due to compromise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
Thanks, Andrei and Francisco! Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
I'm guessing the image I need is debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-cd/ Would that be right? Best, Vwaju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza wrote: Hi Vwaju, you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ So when I go to this page I get an option of amd64 or i386. Which one do I want for a general-purpose boot-on-almost-any-machine, including an Intel Mac, CD? (I assume since Ubuntu LiveCDs and Knoppix LiveCDs, etc, can boot on most any machine, Debian's LiveCD has similar capabilities.) This is the official page of the project: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ [WARNING: Semi-OT rant ahead] When I go to this page, I get the manual that seems to talk about rolling your own LiveCD; nothing wrong with that, but how's a newbie who has been in Windows-land all his life and has just heard about this Debian thingy supposed to know what to do with this? He's just been told to download the Debian LiveCD as a try-it-out demo, but he's clueless. I'm not a newbie, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which LiveCD image to download. I believe Debian is a wonderful project; I believe the developers and documentation writers have done the world a tremendous service. But I sometimes find Debian documentation to be too terse for non-developers who aren't familiar already with the code and the ins-and-outs of the system. (And please, any documentation writers, please date your documentation, so we'll know if it's current or not. Thanks!). (I have a similar complaint about the site at http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com . I absolutely LOVE the concept, but for someone who has never installed Debian from this site, the documentation on that site does nothing to reassure the newbie that he's not about to install a virus, or wipe his Windows/data completely, or even what Debian is/does. I'd also love it if it were possible to start the Debian installation by browsing to this site from a LiveCD, so that in the case of a computer without a working Windows OS/browser, a person could still install Debian.) [/End of rant] I'm going to guess that the amd64 is not just for AMD, but is rather for modern chipsets, and I'll download/burn that ISO. (My assumption is also based on the idea that i386 seems antiquated.) If I'm wrong, it's just a CD and the time necessary for downloading. -- Kent West *))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 15:44:06 Kent West wrote: how's a newbie who has been in Windows-land all his life and has just heard about this Debian thingy supposed to know what to do with this? He's just been told to download the Debian LiveCD as a try-it-out demo, but he's clueless. I'm not a newbie, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which LiveCD image to download. FWIW, I recommend the one for your favourite desktop (provided it is there) and, if you want only one, then the i386. 64 bit processors can use 32 bit. The reverse is not true. Mind you, it is a brave Windows fugitive who goes straight to Debian! I stared with one that hand-held a bit more. Again, for what it is worth, I keep a little pile of different Live CDs. I find that it is horses for courses. HTH Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
Kent West wrote: Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza wrote: Hi Vwaju, you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ So when I go to this page I get an option of amd64 or i386. Which one do I want for a general-purpose boot-on-almost-any-machine, including an Intel Mac, CD? (I assume since Ubuntu LiveCDs and Knoppix LiveCDs, etc, can boot on most any machine, Debian's LiveCD has similar capabilities.) I'm going to guess that the amd64 is not just for AMD, but is rather for modern chipsets, and I'll download/burn that ISO. (My assumption is also based on the idea that i386 seems antiquated.) If I'm wrong, it's just a CD and the time necessary for downloading. Uh, oh. Now I've got a choice of bt-cd or iso-cd (as well as a couple of others). Not knowing what bt stands for, I'll guess I'm supposed to download the iso-cd. -- Kent West *))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Francisco Antônio da Silva Souza wrote: Hi Vwaju, you can get a live version of Debian in page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/ So when I go to this page I get an option of amd64 or i386. Which one do I want for a general-purpose boot-on-almost-any-machine, including an Intel Mac, CD? (I assume since Ubuntu LiveCDs and Knoppix LiveCDs, etc, can boot on most any machine, Debian's LiveCD has similar capabilities.) I'm going to guess that the amd64 is not just for AMD, but is rather for modern chipsets, and I'll download/burn that ISO. (My assumption is also based on the idea that i386 seems antiquated.) If I'm wrong, it's just a CD and the time necessary for downloading. Okay, wrong guess. I'll try the i386 variant now. Uh, oh. Now I've got a choice of bt-cd or iso-cd (as well as a couple of others). Not knowing what bt stands for, I'll guess I'm supposed to download the iso-cd. Apparently the right guess. It burned successfully, at least. -- Kent West *))) http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian won't boot
Vwaju wrote: For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting with networking tools. Today I didn't do much except read man pages, and I'm not aware of doing anything to change any configuration, but when I rebooted my computer it stalled out at INIT: Entering runlevel 2 After it hangs here, it starts printing out messages of the form: Out of Memory: Killed process 2253 (sysklogd) If I scroll back on the monitor, there are a number of messages like this: modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting pciehp modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting shpchp modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting hw_random modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting rtc What is going on here? ... I have been running Debian testing for years, upgrading regularly and rebooting very seldom. Two days ago I rebooted for the first time in a long while, and it failed with Out of Memory messages. It proceeded to kill processes until it killed everything but init, and then just scrolled error messages until I had to pull the plug. There were two different stock kernels installed, and the behavior was exactly the same for both of them. I tried booting from an OpenCD disk, which is a live Ubuntu system. There were no errors reported, and hardware detection and initialization all seemed to go well. But when it got starting up X, all I got was a brown screen with a cursor, no menus, no response to the keyboard, and no way to do anything (but pull the plug again). The machine is now in the shop. Because of failing with two different kernels and the live CD, I guessed it was probably a hardware rather than a software problem. Now the shop has tested memory and disk and found no problems. They are Windows people and know very little about Linux. They don't know what to try next, and neither do I. I'd really appreciate any thoughts about what may be going wrong, or suggestions of things to try. (I'm sending this from a very similar machine which I don't dare reboot!) TIA cgm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Debian won't boot
For months, I have been booting Debian 3.1 every day and experimenting with networking tools. Today I didn't do much except read man pages, and I'm not aware of doing anything to change any configuration, but when I rebooted my computer it stalled out at INIT: Entering runlevel 2 After it hangs here, it starts printing out messages of the form: Out of Memory: Killed process 2253 (sysklogd) If I scroll back on the monitor, there are a number of messages like this: modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting pciehp modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting shpchp modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting hw_random modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting rtc What is going on here? Is there any way to boot in this circumstance? Thanks, as always, for your thoughts. Best Regards, Vwaju New York City -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
Debian won't boot, here's the synopsis of the problem: Most recently the computer began crashing simple programs such as Abiword when attempting to save as well as do other moderate tasks. Up until now, the OS has not given me any trouble (had it for roughly 9 mo). The other night, Debian decided not to boot, and started giving me attitude. The debian load screen comes up, and the OS begins loading linux.bin off of the boot disk i use, it then quits and says that it failed to load the kernel, and it says I must 'switch' disk and retry, or eject the disk and press 'restart'. The only thing that I have done wrong is accidentally ejecting a disk without unmounting (did this the day be4 the com wouldn't boot). Don't know what OS i have, believe is is ver 2.88 (it's the version which was most recent about 9 mo ago- when i got it). Any help is appreciated thx! _ Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
J M wrote: Debian won't boot, here's the synopsis of the problem: Most recently the computer began crashing simple programs such as Abiword when attempting to save as well as do other moderate tasks. Up until now, the OS has not given me any trouble (had it for roughly 9 mo). The other night, Debian decided not to boot, and started giving me attitude. The debian load screen comes up, and the OS begins loading linux.bin off of the boot disk i use, it then quits and says that it failed to load the kernel, and it says I must 'switch' disk and retry, or eject the disk and press 'restart'. The only thing that I have done wrong is accidentally ejecting a disk without unmounting (did this the day be4 the com wouldn't boot). Don't know what OS i have, believe is is ver 2.88 (it's the version which was most recent about 9 mo ago- when i got it). Any help is appreciated thx! Gut instinct - you have a hardware problem, probably a failing hard drive. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
From: J M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DEBIAN WON'T BOOT Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:25:44 -0800 Debian won't boot, here's the synopsis of the problem: Most recently the computer began crashing simple programs such as Abiword when attempting to save as well as do other moderate tasks. Up until now, the OS has not given me any trouble (had it for roughly 9 mo). The other night, Debian decided not to boot, and started giving me attitude. The debian load screen comes up, and the OS begins loading linux.bin off of the boot disk i use, it then quits and says that it failed to load the kernel, and it says I must 'switch' disk and retry, or eject the disk and press 'restart'. It sounds to me like your hard disk has failed. You might try using a rescue floppy and see if you can mount that disk. Maybe you can recover something. I recommend that you use smartmon to monitor the health of your disks. See Linux Journal a few months back. The only thing that I have done wrong is accidentally ejecting a disk without unmounting (did this the day be4 the com wouldn't boot). Don't know what OS i have, believe is is ver 2.88 (it's the version which was most recent about 9 mo ago- when i got it). Any help is appreciated thx! I don't think ejecting an unmounted disk is the cause. I've done that too. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:06:44PM +, Tom Kuiper wrote: From: J M [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... The debian load screen comes up, and the OS begins loading linux.bin off of the boot disk i use, it then quits and says that it failed to load the kernel, and it says I must 'switch' disk and retry, or eject the disk and press 'restart'. It sounds to me like your hard disk has failed. You might try using a rescue floppy and see if you can mount that disk. Maybe you can recover something. Actually, he's booting off a floppy now. Note the reference to a boot disk. It's enormously more likely that the floppy has a problem, than a hard drive, just based on relative MTBF. The only thing that I have done wrong is accidentally ejecting a disk without unmounting ... I don't think ejecting an unmounted disk is the cause. I've done that too. But he ejected a *mounted* disk, not unmounted. JM: you need a new boot floppy. The problem CANNOT be your hard disk, since the system isn't getting past the kernel load. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )
I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use sed to change the /etc/fstab back again (in case it states it's ext2 the boot is successfully. --- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: --- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be interested in converting your ext2 file systems to ext3, Hmmm... I think I might do that allright... but before I do that: are there any (possible) problems involved with ext3 or is/was ext2 just more standard ? I've not had any problemsm, but as always, YMMV. ext2 is the older standard. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )
Joris Huizer said: I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use sed to change the /etc/fstab back again (in case it states it's ext2 the boot is successfully. what kernel? ext3 is not maintained in 2.2.x anymore, so if you plan to use ext3 be sure you have a 2.4.x kernel. you can cat /proc/filesystems to see what filesystems are supported (this won't include any that are available as modules). if your using a 2.2.x and want a journalling filesystem the best bet is reiserfs. I think 2.2.21 is the latest kernel that supports it, 2.2.19 is the latest kernel I've tested reiserfs on, have done extensive testing for the past year or more, works wonderfully with some known issues(e.g. software raid 1,5 not supported). nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:53:40PM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use sed to change the /etc/fstab back again (in case it states it's ext2 the boot is successfully. You need a kernel with support for it compiled in to boot ext3. -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg27166/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ext 3 partitions (was Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT )
Ah ok... then I'll just leave it like this... --- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: I did the tune2fs stuff but when I change the ext2 to ext3 in /etc/fstab I get weird stuff: errors about the kernel not being able to handle it or something and the boot stops soon after that; (vi isn't even found, I have to use sed to change the /etc/fstab back again (in case it states it's ext2 the boot is successfully. Ah, sorry; didn't think about you possibly using a 2.2x kernel. I believe you'll need a 2.4x kernel to use ext3. If you want to stick with 2.2, just leave your /etc/fstab set to ext2 and go on with life; you don't need to undo your tune2fs -j procedure. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:24:53AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote: /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Just do what it says. 'mount -n -o remount,rw /', then 'fsck /dev/hdb1', and answer the questions. (Generally speaking there isn't much point answering anything other than 'y' to fsck's questions, unless you're a filesystem expert ...) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer Boot into single-user mode if necessary. Run mount /-n -o remount,rw / which will remount the root directory in read-write mode. Then run fsck /dev/hdb1 Most likely, everything will sort itself out. Then just reboot with reboot -r now and you should be back in business. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer Boot into single-user mode if necessary. Run mount /-n -o remount,rw / which will remount the root directory in read-write mode. Then run fsck /dev/hdb1 Most likely, everything will sort itself out. Then just reboot with reboot -r now and you should be back in business. Kent Thank you Kent and Colin Watson (who just sent a reply too) I thought it'd probably be hard - but just saying yes to every question got everything working again. Can any of you tell what could have caused this prob ? regards, Joris Huizer PS: Sorry for the number of emails I really didn't want to fill the list like that, but it kind of looked like yahoo wasn't really responding well but in the end it send the message a couple of times. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
Joris Huizer wrote: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message: checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. I thought it'd probably be hard - but just saying yes to every question got everything working again. Can any of you tell what could have caused this prob ? Not knowing more details about the change in memory, it's impossible to say. There may be some details in one of your system logs (/var/log/ . . .). However, any number of things can cause a file to fail getting closed, or corrupted, etc, such as a power outage, or a program lockup, a bad spot on the drive, etc. You might be interested in converting your ext2 file systems to ext3, which is a journaling mode, and more resistant to file system corruption. It's a simple thing; just run tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1 (for the hdb1 partition), and edit /etc/fstab, changing the hdb1 line from ext2 to ext3, and you're in business. Do this for all your ext2 filesystems, or just some, or none; it's your choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message: checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. I thought it'd probably be hard - but just saying yes to every question got everything working again. Can any of you tell what could have caused this prob ? Not knowing more details about the change in memory, it's impossible to say. There may be some details in one of your system logs (/var/log/ . . .). However, any number of things can cause a file to fail getting closed, or corrupted, etc, such as a power outage, or a program lockup, a bad spot on the drive, etc. You might be interested in converting your ext2 file systems to ext3, which is a journaling mode, and more resistant to file system corruption. It's a simple thing; just run tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1 (for the hdb1 partition), and edit /etc/fstab, changing the hdb1 line from ext2 to ext3, and you're in business. Do this for all your ext2 filesystems, or just some, or none; it's your choice. Hmmm... I think I might do that allright... but before I do that: are there any (possible) problems involved with ext3 or is/was ext2 just more standard ? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED :-) Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT
Joris Huizer wrote: --- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be interested in converting your ext2 file systems to ext3, Hmmm... I think I might do that allright... but before I do that: are there any (possible) problems involved with ext3 or is/was ext2 just more standard ? I've not had any problemsm, but as always, YMMV. ext2 is the older standard. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: error on root filesystem DEBIAN WON'T BOOT URGENT
Hi I would boot from the cd/floppy in rescue mode (not from the kernel on the hard-disk) and then run fsck on each ext2/3 partition. hopefully it will be able to fix all the errors. This happens from time to time when you use non-journalistic file system. you should consider using reiserfs/xfs/jfs etc... (I personally don't like ext3). Bye On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 15:31, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody I've got a big problem now: First, I had a weird warning about a change in memory while nothing should have changed - I did nothing special to cause such a thing... Anyway, then the probs go on: When I try to boot I get an error message when the check for the root system starts. These are the outputs: --- checking root system... fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdb1 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced. /dev/hdb1: ... unattached inode 917614 /dev/hdb1 UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY: RUN fsck MANUALLY (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / --- What should I do ? I don't know anything about inodes or the fsck program so I need any advice you can give Thanks in advance, Joris Huizer __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Haim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
