Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Kent West wrote: > > > Normal Jessie install, but when it came time to do the "tasksel"-looking > stage within the installer, I uninstalled everything. > *unselected everything -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully -

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
t; Yeah, but apparently what ships with the Jessie installation is a 3.16. I upgraded the system to stretch, thereby getting a 4.19 kernel, and the problem so far(!, after five successful boots) has gone away. > Newish is probably something made in 2016? > 2016/06/30 > > Dell-freak &

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 27/04/17 05:44, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> Your newish hardware may require a backported kernel to function reliably. >> > > This. Any recent Dell machine will likely have a Skylake or Kaby Lake CPU > and a bad

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Fungi4All
016? Dell-freak Original Message ---- Subject: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Local Time: April 26, 2017 6:21 PM UTC Time: April 26, 2017 3:21 PM From: we...@acu.edu To: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Two identical newish Dell desktops. Configured for non-lega

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Kent West wrote: > In /etc/default/grub, I commented out the line that mentioned "quiet", > and in the next line, added between the quotes "nomodeset", ran > "update-grub", and rebooted. > > Frozen Presumably there was more output than just "initializing ramdisk". But in

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 27/04/17 05:44, Don Armstrong wrote: Your newish hardware may require a backported kernel to function reliably. This. Any recent Dell machine will likely have a Skylake or Kaby Lake CPU and a bad time on the stock jessie kernel, especially if using the iGPU. Please install a 4.9.18 kernel

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Felix Miata
Kent West composed on 2017-04-26 13:35 (UTC-0500): > Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Kent West wrote: >> > Two identical newish Dell desktops. Configured for non-legacy, UEFI-only >> > booting. No Secure-Boot or Fast Boot. >> > Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Kent West wrote: > > Two identical newish Dell desktops. Configured for non-legacy, UEFI-only > > booting. No Secure-Boot or Fast Boot. > > [...] > > > Every other boot results in a hang at

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Kent West wrote: > Two identical newish Dell desktops. Configured for non-legacy, UEFI-only > booting. No Secure-Boot or Fast Boot. [...] > Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" This usually is indicative of a video driver (or some other driver)

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/26/17, Kent West wrote: > Two identical newish Dell desktops. Configured for non-legacy, UEFI-only > booting. No Secure-Boot or Fast Boot. > > Both fresh minimal installs of Jessie. > > Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" just after > grub, requiring

Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Kent West
Two identical newish Dell desktops. Configured for non-legacy, UEFI-only booting. No Secure-Boot or Fast Boot. Both fresh minimal installs of Jessie. Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" just after grub, requiring holding the power button for 8 seconds to power off. Then