Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Kent West wrote: > > > Normal Jessie install, but when it came time to do the "tasksel"-looking > stage within the installer, I uninstalled everything. > *unselected everything -- Kent West<")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspo

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Fungi4All wrote: > From: we...@acu.edu > To: debian users > > Both fresh minimal installs of Jessie. > > Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" just after > grub, requiring holding the power button for 8 seconds to power off. Then > power o

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 27/04/17 05:44, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> Your newish hardware may require a backported kernel to function reliably. >> > > This. Any recent Dell machine will likely have a Skylake or Kaby Lake CPU > and a bad time on the stock jessi

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Fungi4All
From: we...@acu.edu To: debian users Both fresh minimal installs of Jessie. Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" just after grub, requiring holding the power button for 8 seconds to power off. Then power on, and it boots normally. what do you mean minimal install, can

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Kent West wrote: > 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 Presumably there was more output than just "initializing ramdisk". But in

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 27/04/17 05:44, Don Armstrong wrote: Your newish hardware may require a backported kernel to function reliably. This. Any recent Dell machine will likely have a Skylake or Kaby Lake CPU and a bad time on the stock jessie kernel, especially if using the iGPU. Please install a 4.9.18 kernel

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Felix Miata
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 Ra

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:44 PM, 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" > > Th

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Don Armstrong
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.

Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

2017-04-26 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/26/17, Kent West wrote: > Two identical newish Dell desktops. Configured for non-legacy, UEFI-only > booting. No Secure-Boot or Fast Boot. > > Both fresh minimal installs of Jessie. > > Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" just after > grub, requiring holding the power