The machine was gifted, and I was just so happy I could get Debian to boot then I never really investigated the hardware or thought much about it.
it looks like there is a solution floating around this thread that I'm going to be trying. I have a Lenovo running Deb 12. The MacBook was also running Deb 12. I think it had SSH and a few other services like WeeChat and I think it was running a next cloud install. I won't get to actually troubleshoot it until I'm on a bus tomorrow afternoon. if I am unable to just reformat the swap partition and get it to boot, I'll follow up with you. On December 5, 2024 11:38:50 PM EST, David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: >On 12/5/24 18:03, nsrxnst wrote: >> while I was at work, chaos happened in my house. my wife cleaned my office, >> and her nephew locked himself in there. >> >> my Debian install has never been ideal: the GUI is spotty, but the >> underlying system has always functioned just fine, and to that extent, I >> have used it as a home server. >> >> it was powered off when I got home. >> >> upon selecting the appropriate option from grub, manually or automatically, >> it begins the boot process, displays errors too fast to comprehend, and the >> screen goes to a cursor, then black. repeated power button long-presses seem >> to be the only thing that brings it back to life, but only so long as I >> don't try to boot the installed os. >> >> can someone help me troubleshoot this? > > >On 12/5/24 18:39, nsrxnst wrote: >> aha. >> >> booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my >> sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs. >> >> how do I go about recovering this??? > > >Processor model? Memory size? SSD size? > > >What version of Debian was installed? > > >What services was it providing? > > >Can you log in to the machine from another computer via ssh(1)? > > >Do you have a recent image of the SSD? > > >Do you have a recent backup of the data? > > >What other computers, disks, etc., do you have available for trouble-shooting >and repair? > > >David >
