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Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Kent West wrote:
> > Two identical newish Dell desktops. Configured for non-legacy, UEFI-only
> > booting. No Secure-Boot or Fast Boot.
>
> [...]
>
> > Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk"
>
> This usually is indicative of a video driver (or some other driver)
> issue.
>
> Try booting without the quiet option, and possibly with nomodeset, and
> see if it works. [You'll have to edit the grub command line to do this.]
>
> Your newish hardware may require a backported kernel to function reliably.
>
>
>
In /etc/default/grub, I commented out the line that mentioned "quiet", and
in the next line, added between the quotes "nomodeset", ran "update-grub",
and rebooted.

Frozen....

Thanks, anyway!

-- 
Kent

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Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-04-26 17:30 +0200
  Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 18:00 +0200
  Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2017-04-26 19:50 +0200
    Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-04-26 20:40 +0200
      Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-04-26 21:20 +0200
      Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2017-04-27 17:30 +0200
    Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-04-27 02:40 +0200
      Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-04-27 20:30 +0200
  Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-04-27 19:50 +0200
    Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-04-27 20:40 +0200
      Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-04-27 20:40 +0200

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