Re: Big problem computer not booting

From	Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Big problem computer not booting
Date	2017-08-12 02:10 +0200
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On 08/11/2017 01:45 AM, Fungi4All wrote:
> From: field.engineer@gmail.com
> 
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>
>> On 08/10/2017 12:00 PM, kelsang sherab wrote:
>>> I run Debian stretch on MacBook Air
>>>
>>> I did a restore backup from previous system[debian Jessie ]

<snip>

>> I don"t know, but maybe I can help with the network, do an "#ifconfig
>> -a" to get the name of your interface and then "#ifconfig
>> (name-of-interface) up" and see if that helps get things going.
> 
> I suspect this has to do with the settings of systemd trying to bring a
> functional network up before it completes the sequence, but as it is
> set to give up at a point it finds yet a different place to get stuck.
> I remember a while I had found where to set the time limit but didn't
> record the find and while on wifi I have to deal with this delayed booting
> myself.
> But, on the above problem out of curiosity I found this piece that may
> be helpful.  https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254677
> It seems on such machines the interrupts get all twisted and tangled
> up.  Quote from the link:
> "The ivrs table is wrong, it points to non existant IOAPIC[0] and IOAPIC[255], so to override this i use this commandline in grub:
> ivrs_ioapic[7]=00:14.0 ivrs_ioapic[8]=00:00.1."

The tip is he restored from a previous system, so his network interface 
probable got a new name, it should be simple to fix if net-tools is 
installed. It's 2x60 seconds before the connection will timeout and 
continue to boot.

Cheers,
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6
Registered Linux User #380263

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Big problem computer not booting  kelsang sherab <sherab@fastmail.com> - 2017-08-10 21:20 +0200
  Re: Big problem computer not booting Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-08-11 01:00 +0200
    Re: Big problem computer not booting Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-08-11 10:50 +0200
      Re: Big problem computer not booting Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-08-12 02:10 +0200

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