Kent West composed on 2017-04-26 13:35 (UTC-0500): > Don Armstrong 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.... "Edit the grub command command line" was meant to be done on the fly, a temporary test, done at the grub menu at boot time. Removing quiet allows boot messages to appear that may provide clues to what is or is not happening. Nomodeset is a crutch that should usually be done all by itself and only when the problem encountered is known to be (Xorg usually) video-related. Your Grub menu should have a failsafe selection. Have you tried selecting it? Adding noresume to the cmdline at boot time might be a useful diagnostic. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
