On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 11:48:38AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a strange and blocking issue after upgrade to 6.4 on my x86-64 > laptop, which was running 6.3 just fine. > > I got the bsd.rd kernel, booted it and installed, quick, easy no issue. > Now, if I reboot, the kernel will reboot just after having written the first > line of numbers on the screen. > > The bad news is that both booting the new kernel as well as the bsd.rd > kernel gives the issue, so the existing bsd.rd which for installation booted > just fine. > > The only thing I can think is that the boot blocks were updated and that > they fail to load. > > I also tried making an USB key with 64, I get to the bootloader prompt, but > everything I try will make the laptop reboot, both booting from hd0a as > wella s hd1a! > I also tried making an USB key with 63, but that too fails the same way? > > Windows partition continues to boot fine, or I would almost think of having > some sort of hardware failure!!! > > I did not make changes to the Bios, UEFI boot is still disabled. I found > "Intel Anti-Theft" enabled and disabled it. > > And now?
Please check, that you don't use only one big a partition, and if you do, please backup and rearrange your disklabels. This approach is not working with 6.4 anymore and was already discussed several times recently on this very ML. hth, Marc
