Re: Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-03 Thread Mike Conde
> Sorry to see that you're having this problem. I'm stymied as to why it might > happen with a VM. I had assumed that the new kernel had stopped supporting > some piece of hardware in my rather unusual little notebook computer. > The same day the kernel was updated on my system, pc-grub was

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-03 Thread Jape Person
On 11/03/2016 03:26 PM, Mike Conde wrote: Have you checked your boot partition - does it have enough free space? I don't have a separate boot partition, just one main partition that is 40GB in capacity and 40% full. Sorry to see that you're having this problem. I'm stymied as to why it

Re: Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-03 Thread Mike Conde
> Have you checked your boot partition - does it have enough free space? I don't have a separate boot partition, just one main partition that is 40GB in capacity and 40% full.

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-03 Thread deloptes
Mike Conde wrote: > I am having exactly the same problem as Jape Person's post from Oct 22 > 2016, except my hardware environment is completely different. > > I am running Debian testing/Stretch 64-bit on a virtual machine under > virtualbox. The host OS is Windows 7 64-bit. > > I don't know

Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)

2016-11-02 Thread Mike Conde
I am having exactly the same problem as Jape Person's post from Oct 22 2016, except my hardware environment is completely different. I am running Debian testing/Stretch 64-bit on a virtual machine under virtualbox. The host OS is Windows 7 64-bit. I don't know exactly which kernel update was

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 05:26 PM, Frank wrote: Op 23-10-16 om 22:47 schreef Felix Miata: I don't remember having any Stretch installations with fewer than two installed kernels. The currently booted one, originally installed 51 weeks ago, has 6 installed. I've yet to discover any doc suggesting anything

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Frank
Op 23-10-16 om 22:47 schreef Felix Miata: I don't remember having any Stretch installations with fewer than two installed kernels. The currently booted one, originally installed 51 weeks ago, has 6 installed. I've yet to discover any doc suggesting anything about any possibility of automatic

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 04:47 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Jape Person composed on 2016-10-23 14:33 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: Does the same thing happen booting the previous kernel (4.6?)? Nope. The problem occurred on the first reboot after the upgrade from 4.7.6-1 to 4.7.8-1. The upgrade process

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Felix Miata
Jape Person composed on 2016-10-23 14:33 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: Does the same thing happen booting the previous kernel (4.6?)? Nope. The problem occurred on the first reboot after the upgrade from 4.7.6-1 to 4.7.8-1. The upgrade process didn't leave 4.7.6-1 in place so I could

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 01:33 PM, Felix Miata wrote: James P. Wallen composed on 2016-10-23 12:14 (UTC-0400): On 10/22/2016 18:10 (UTC-0400), Jape Person wrote: It's confusing to see a response from a different person writing as if he was responding to himself. The confusion is caused by my idiotic

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 01:21 PM, Børge Holen wrote: I have to use the nomodeset from time to time where the f*** gfx card has unresolved issues with itself. Atleast it lets me boot to a prompt. Now thinking of it, I have no blinking cursor, I just get a black screen... So different issue all together and

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Jape Person
On 10/23/2016 01:03 PM, Michael Lange wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:14:39 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem. It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It was never officially sold in U.S.,

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Felix Miata
James P. Wallen composed on 2016-10-23 12:14 (UTC-0400): On 10/22/2016 18:10 (UTC-0400), Jape Person wrote: It's confusing to see a response from a different person writing as if he was responding to himself. Be that as it may, have either of you tried intercepting Grub and unquieting the

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Børge Holen
Heck I even remember a one-floppy live distribution that I had for just this purpose. On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Børge Holen wrote: > Have you tried booting off a live distribution and inserted the old kernel > and symlinked the libraries so you can rerun grub

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Børge Holen
Have you tried booting off a live distribution and inserted the old kernel and symlinked the libraries so you can rerun grub update? I remember we had to do that with lilo whenever I tried new kernels and forgot all about lilo. Cannot even remember the last time I did it, since I found the rescue

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Børge Holen
I have to use the nomodeset from time to time where the f*** gfx card has unresolved issues with itself. Atleast it lets me boot to a prompt. Now thinking of it, I have no blinking cursor, I just get a black screen... So different issue all together and I am just rambling on On Sun, Oct 23, 2016

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread Michael Lange
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:14:39 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: > Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem. > It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It > was never officially sold in U.S., where I live currently. Since > I can't

Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-23 Thread James P. Wallen
Double checked to see if I was right about the video subsystem. It is not ATI, it is Intel integrated. No docs on this thing. It was never officially sold in U.S., where I live currently. Since I can't boot it to usable state, I can't (easily) find out exactly which video it uses. It's

Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

2016-10-22 Thread Jape Person
I've got a little Panasonic CF-R3 mini-laptop which has been kept fully up-to-date in testing every day since Etch was released. (I think the original installation is that old.) I've been using the linux-image-686-pae kernel on the system. The updates today included an update to