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Re: please help! debain won't boot

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On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, davidson wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote:
>
>> I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what
>> went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to
>> load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then
>> nothing happens no matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover
>> mode i get a screen that says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0:
>> link becomes ready. And no amount of waiting changes it.
>
> In case you care to follow up on Jeroen Mathon's suspicion that your
> system has in fact booted, and that you can probably log in on a
> virtual terminal:
>
> Once you arrive at the situation you've described,

To clarify: By "the situation you've described," I mean when you
attempt to start up normally, and then reach the screen with nothing
but a cursor.

In other words, I'm not talking about recovery mode.

> what happens if you
> hold down both the Ctrl key and Alt key and press the F6 key?
>
> Do you get a screen with
>
> Debian GNU/Linux 8 YOUR_HOSTNAME tty6
>
> YOUR_HOSTNAME login:
>
> and a cursor?
>
> Can you enter a username, and then (when prompted) the corresponding
> password?
>
>> I had trouble getting the correct drivers for my gpu which is a amd
>> radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before the system
>> didn't boot was install a mining program.
>
>

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please help! debain won't boot Jason Brenkus <jasonbrenkus@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 10:50 +0100
  Re: please help! debain won't boot Jeroen Mathon <jeroenmathonmac@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 11:00 +0100
  Re: please help! debain won't boot bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2017-12-13 11:20 +0100
  Re: please help! debian won't boot Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 11:20 +0100
    Re: please help! debian won't boot Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-13 20:00 +0100
      Re: please help! debian won't boot Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 20:40 +0100
        Re: please help! debian won't boot Jason Brenkus <jasonbrenkus@gmail.com> - 2017-12-14 08:10 +0100
          Re: please help! debian won't boot Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-12-14 08:50 +0100
          Re: please help! debian won't boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-14 09:10 +0100
          Re: please help! debian won't boot Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> - 2017-12-20 12:10 +0100
  Re: please help! debain won't boot Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 19:40 +0100
  Re: please help! debain won't boot davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-12-13 19:50 +0100
    Re: please help! debain won't boot davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2017-12-13 20:10 +0100

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