On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:49:05AM -0400, Ken Heard via talk wrote: > So I downloaded Knoppix 8.2, burned it to a DVD. It did indeed boot the > offending computer. I was able to access my /home directory. > > I then tried again to boot the computer from the hard drives which have > Jessie installed. (There are two hard drives which form a RAID1 device.) > This time the boot completed, no more 99s! > > During subsequent bootings from these drives however, using both the > installed Jessie and the Knoppix, after the message 'Verifying DMI Pool Data > ...' was displayed it was a long time before they were detected. So it is > possible that those drives, or perhaps one of them, are close to failing. > They have been in use since 2011. Testing them is consequently next on my > troubleshooting my agenda.
A delay after the DMI pool data message is usually a case of a dying disk or corrupt boot sector. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
