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Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen

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On 10/23/2016 01:03 PM, Michael Lange wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:14:39 -0400
> "James P. Wallen" <jpwallen@comcast.net> 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 boot it to usable state, I can't (easily) find out
>> exactly which video it uses.
>>
>> It's probably destine for re-installation anyway. I was just
>> surprised to see such a failure occur after upgrade.
>
> If the device has worked with other kernel versions before, you
> could boot from an USB drive, do a chroot and install a kernel that
> works, this should be a pretty straightforward procedure.
>

Thanks, Michael. Yes, I posted originally from another e-mail 
account, so I'm sorry for any confusion that may have caused in 
the thread. I am planning to boot from a live image on USB key 
to try chrooting onto the system drive to fix it. I'll probably 
try update-grub first just in case something weird happened to 
grub-pc during that part of the upgrade. I could install a 
different kernel, but I'd prefer working on the system before 
doing that to see if there's a way to make the current kernel in 
testing work.

I'm kind of surprised that a minor kernel change of this type 
(probably) resulted in this problem. I'm not sure just what 
Debian's policy on kernel upgrades is. With major version 
changes, I think, the upgrade process leaves the old kernel in 
place so you can fall back on it if the new one fails. But minor 
revisions to the kernel just install the new kernel in place of 
the old one. I only noticed this change in upgrade policy -- if 
that is, indeed, what it is -- over the past couple of years.

This computer is definitely a corner case hardware-wise. The 
straight replacement of the kernel seems to have backfired in 
this case for this particular machine.

Many thanks for your suggestion.

And if anyone has seen a bug report that might be pertinent, I'd 
appreciate a pointer. I've searched briefly, but found nothing.

Regards,
JP

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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

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