Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.debian.user > #173749

Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

Show all headers | View raw

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 
linux-image-4.7.0-1-686-pae (4.7.8-1) and grub-pc (2.02-beta3-1).

Upon reboot the system stops with a blinking underline cursor in 
the upper left corner. I suspect that the boot process stops 
immediately after grub. I cannot connect via ssh or even ping 
the system. Using Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect, but touching the 
start-stop switch elicits a beep and immediate power-down.

The same results are obtained if I use the grub menu to select 
recovery mode.

A much older desktop system running testing and the same kernel 
was not adversely affected.

I'm only reporting this for purposes of corroboration in case 
anyone else has seen something similar coincident with these 
updates.

I'm in the midst of some business which will prevent me from 
delving into the failure right now. I'll get into it some time 
next week, perhaps.

I'm planning to make a couple of different live images on USB 
keys so that I can boot the failed system to examine it and see 
if there's anything I might just fix on it.

There were no error messages during the upgrade. I'm a bit more 
inclined to suspect the kernel upgrade than the grub-pc upgrade. 
This little unit has a strange hybrid video subsystem which 
shares system memory with the video subsystem. Everything on the 
system is early Intel Centrino era stuff, but with the video 
being ATI. Maybe it's weird enough that it caught a corner case 
with the kernel change.

But the system has been in the rolling-upgrade mode for years, 
so something odd may have happened to grub-pc itself. I suppose 
chroot to the system drive and running update-grub is worth a shot.

If anyone has a suggestion, I'm willing to try to learn. As I 
said, it will be a little while before I have time to actually 
dig into it.

In the off chance I actually learn something, I'll post back to 
the thread.

Thanks,
JP

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2016-10-23 00:20 +0200
  Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen "James P. Wallen" <jpwallen@comcast.net> - 2016-10-23 18:40 +0200
    Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2016-10-23 19:10 +0200
      Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Børge Holen <holen.borge@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 19:30 +0200
      Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Børge Holen <holen.borge@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 19:30 +0200
        Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Børge Holen <holen.borge@gmail.com> - 2016-10-23 19:30 +0200
        Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2016-10-23 20:20 +0200
      Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2016-10-23 19:50 +0200
    Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-23 19:40 +0200
      Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2016-10-23 20:40 +0200
        Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-23 22:50 +0200
          Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2016-10-23 23:20 +0200
          Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2016-10-23 23:30 +0200
            Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2016-10-23 23:40 +0200

csiph-web