Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick

2022-02-11 Thread Flacusbigotis
Thank you! I was using the 32-bit image! Duh!!! I retried with the 64-bit image and it is all good! On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:16 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 07:43:56PM -0600, Flacusbigotis wrote: > > Thomas and Andrew, thanks for your reply. > > > > > > The laptop is

Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick

2022-02-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 07:43:56PM -0600, Flacusbigotis wrote: > Thomas and Andrew, thanks for your reply. > > > The laptop is no more than two years old and it has an Intel Core i3-1005G1 > processor. > Also, I checked the USB stick and it only has the 32-bit EFI program in the > EFI boot folder

Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick

2022-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Flacusbigotis wrote: > The laptop is no more than two years old and it has an Intel Core i3-1005G1 > processor. > Also, I checked the USB stick and it only has the 32-bit EFI program in the > EFI boot folder. In this case you probably got an "i386" ISO image for 32-bit systems. Try one of th

Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick

2022-02-10 Thread Flacusbigotis
Thomas and Andrew, thanks for your reply. The laptop is no more than two years old and it has an Intel Core i3-1005G1 processor. Also, I checked the USB stick and it only has the 32-bit EFI program in the EFI boot folder. I assume based on what Andrew said that maybe the UEFI needs to be 64-bit.

Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick

2022-02-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I had a similar issue the other day with an old Intel Baytrail > notebook where the UEFI is 32 bit and the processor is 64 bit - using a > Debian multi-arch installer worked. I used the one with firmware. This would match the observation that Knoppix 9.1 works. I ha

Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick

2022-02-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 08:47:16PM -0600, Flacusbigotis wrote: > I have followed Debian's instructions ( > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstall#Creating_a_Bootable_Debian_USB_Flashdrive) > for creating a bootable USB stick but it fails to boot on my UEFI laptop. > In contrast, I am able to create

Re: Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick

2022-02-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, this problem is probably better served on debian-l...@lists.debian.org (or on debian...@lists.debian.org if you tried also a Debian installation ISO). Whatever: Flacusbigotis wrote: > The debian instructions basically say to do a normal cp of the hybrid iso > unto the raw USB device as follo

Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-25 Thread John Mok
Hi Didier, Yes, I set BIOS='ovmf', and the Debian installation showed UEFI installer. Best regards, On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 3:47 PM didier gaumet wrote: > > Le 25/02/2021 à 14:03, John Mok a écrit : > [...] > > I think it is related to Xen HVM + OVMF. > > > > Anyone has an idea what went wrong

Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le 25/02/2021 à 14:03, John Mok a écrit : [...] I think it is related to Xen HVM + OVMF. Anyone has an idea what went wrong ? Hello, did you use the "bios='ovmf'" option in the xl.cfg file of your Debian Xen guest? By default, even if OVMF is installed/present on your OS host, Xen uses Sea

Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-25 Thread John Mok
Hi didier, Thanks for prompt reply. I installed Debian Buster with UEFI boot on my ThinkPad P52 successfully without any boot problem. I think it is related to Xen HVM + OVMF. Anyone has an idea what went wrong ? Thanks. John Mok On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 16:50 didier gaumet wrote: > > I have

Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-24 Thread didier gaumet
I have never used Xen but I use Qemu/KVM via virtmanager on a Debian 10 host. I have installed several UEFI (OVMF) booting guest OSes, including Debian with no particular problem. The problem of your Debian guest not booting could be caused by the Debian installer not being run in UEFI mode

Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-29 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:09:26AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: [...] > Oh jeeez, [Condescending, borderline-insulting stuff] Hey, Henning. This is a Debian users mailing list. This ain't twitter. Go there if you feel the urge to let steam off. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-29 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 07:36:06PM +, gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > I chose the option Expert Install when I installed Debian Buster. > > I did not install any desktop environment, print server or the standard > system utilities offered during installation. > > After successfully installing

Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 07:36:06PM +, gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > I did not install any desktop environment, print server or the standard > system utilities offered during installation. > After successfully installing the OS, I rebooted into tty2 and installed the > packages named below: >

Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-28 Thread Mick Kent
Way down at the bottom of the screen you may see a line with some instructions. Hit the one for 'commands' and you will get 'grub' and a cursor. I found a list of instructions for 'grub' but they didn't help me much. I'm stuck there. Mick -- Original Message -- From: "gajuph4...@yahoo.

Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-28 Thread riveravaldez
On 7/28/20, gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > I chose the option Expert Install when I installed Debian Buster. > > I did not install any desktop environment, print server or the standard > system utilities offered during installation. > > After successfully installing the OS, I rebooted into tty2 and

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation (SOLVED)

2020-06-13 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/12/20 9:25 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 12 Jun 2020 at 14:22:03 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote: On 6/11/20 1:24 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On mercredi 10 juin 2020 19:53:53 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: The sequence of events on boot up are Bios screen, Debian Window with OS selection, Boot

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Fri 12 Jun 2020 at 14:22:03 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote: > On 6/11/20 1:24 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > On mercredi 10 juin 2020 19:53:53 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: > > > The sequence of events on boot up are Bios screen, Debian Window with OS > > > selection, Boot up sequence, login/password

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-12 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/11/20 1:24 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On mercredi 10 juin 2020 19:53:53 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: The sequence of events on boot up are Bios screen, Debian Window with OS selection, Boot up sequence, login/password ( Xorg not running), startx -> error window. So to answer your question, th

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-11 Thread mick crane
On 2020-06-10 22:13, Gary L. Roach wrote: On 6/10/20 12:10 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:53:53AM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: On 6/10/20 5:17 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On dimanche 7 juin 2020 21:14:20 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: I recently up graded this system to Bulls

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On mercredi 10 juin 2020 19:53:53 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: > The sequence of events on boot up are Bios screen, Debian Window with OS > selection, Boot up sequence, login/password ( Xorg not running), startx > -> error window. So to answer your question, the message is after > login/password. Rig

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-10 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/10/20 12:10 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:53:53AM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: On 6/10/20 5:17 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On dimanche 7 juin 2020 21:14:20 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lac

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-10 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:53:53AM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: > On 6/10/20 5:17 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > On dimanche 7 juin 2020 21:14:20 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: > > > I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble > > > with the lack of Qt4 and had to re-install

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-10 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/10/20 5:17 AM, Dominique Dumont wrote: On dimanche 7 juin 2020 21:14:20 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4 and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The syste

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On dimanche 7 juin 2020 21:14:20 CEST Gary L. Roach wrote: > I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble > with the lack of Qt4 and had to re-install Buster. The installation > went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze with the > following message: >

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-08 Thread mick crane
On 2020-06-07 20:14, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4 and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze with the following message: The current inpu

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-08 Thread Marco Möller
On 08.06.20 01:49, Gary L. Roach wrote: On 6/7/20 12:14 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4  and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze wit

Re: Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/7/20 12:14 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, I recently up graded this system to Bullseye and then ran into trouble with the lack of Qt4  and had to re-install Buster. The installation went fine until kde desktop tried to start. The system froze with the following message: The current i

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/11/2018 à 09:11, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: If the EFI firmware can boot in legacy BIOS compatibility mode, it may require to set the boot flag on the protective GPT partition entry in the protective MBR. According to user reports on grub-devel mailing list about gr

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > If the EFI firmware can boot in legacy BIOS compatibility mode, it may > require to set the boot flag on the protective GPT partition entry in the > protective MBR. According to user reports on grub-devel mailing list about grub-mkrescue ISOs, the boot flag must not b

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/11/2018 à 21:24, Daniel Fishman a écrit : I'd expect that Grub won't be able to reliably work with that setup - partition 3 goes past the 2TB mark, so the BIOS won't be able to map it properly. Don't forget, when grub is reading the disk all it can rely on are BIOS calls. Add yourself a sm

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/11/2018 à 20:19, Steve McIntyre a écrit : quant...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a 4TB external HDD. Since I want to boot the HDD (also) on old systems which support only BIOS, and since the HDD is larger than 2TB, I decided to go with GPT partition table and BIOS boot

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Daniel Fishman
Can you try to create all the partitions through Debian's installer. I have a suspicion that partition type may be wrong for BIOS partition. You have specified ext2 as file system for BIOS grub which may mean Linux partition instead of BIOS grub partition (ef02 BIOS boot). In the end, it wa

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Daniel Fishman
I'd expect that Grub won't be able to reliably work with that setup - partition 3 goes past the 2TB mark, so the BIOS won't be able to map it properly. Don't forget, when grub is reading the disk all it can rely on are BIOS calls. Add yourself a small-ish /boot partition first and you may be OK.

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/22/18 9:08 PM, Daniel Fishman wrote: > >> >> Hi Daniel, >> >> in case of BIOS and GPT you have to create a partition for second stage >> of GRUB. If I can remember correctly its size should be less than 50MB. >> >> HTH >> >> Kind regards >> Georgi > > I created it - this is the first partit

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
quant...@gmail.com wrote: > >I am trying to install Debian on a 4TB external HDD. Since I want >to boot the HDD (also) on old systems which support only BIOS, >and since the HDD is larger than 2TB, I decided to go with GPT >partition table and BIOS boot (or, in other words: BIOS/GTP). >I partitione

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Daniel Fishman
Hi Daniel, in case of BIOS and GPT you have to create a partition for second stage of GRUB. If I can remember correctly its size should be less than 50MB. HTH Kind regards Georgi I created it - this is the first partition (the one with bios_grub flag). I did things similarly to the descri

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 11/22/18 8:24 PM, Daniel Fishman wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install Debian on a 4TB external HDD. Since I want > to boot the HDD (also) on old systems which support only BIOS, > and since the HDD is larger than 2TB, I decided to go with GPT > partition table and BIOS boot (or, in other

Re: Re: Unable to boot jessie after December 2015 kernel update with /usr on LVM raid1 array

2016-01-06 Thread Ben Wagner
> Hi Bob, > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > Try to downgrade initramfs-tools to version 0.116 or below. > With version higher than 0.116 you might not be able decrypt a seperated > /usr > partition. > Hope this helps. > > Thanks, > > Ben > Good luck1 > Hans According to /var/log/apt/history.

Re: Unable to boot jessie after December 2015 kernel update with /usr on LVM raid1 array

2016-01-06 Thread Hans
Hi Bob, > > Any help is appreciated. > Try to downgrade initramfs-tools to version 0.116 or below. With version higher than 0.116 you might not be able decrypt a seperated /usr partition. Hope this helps. > Thanks, > Ben Good luck1 Hans

Re: unable to boot with systemd (works with sysvinit)

2015-01-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 ian 15, 12:33:36, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not subscribed, so please keep me CC-ed. > > I'm unable to boot my laptop with systemd which worked before. I'm unable to > tell the changes I made since the last time it worked because according to my > uptime, the last time I reb

Re: unable to boot with systemd (works with sysvinit)

2015-01-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/13/2015 01:36 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: Hi, Quoting Selim T. Erdoğan (2015-01-12 22:38:08) On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:33:36PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: I'm unable to boot my laptop with systemd which worked before. I'm unable to tell the changes I made since the last time it worke

Re: unable to boot with systemd (works with sysvinit)

2015-01-12 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Selim T. Erdoğan (2015-01-12 22:38:08) > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:33:36PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > I'm unable to boot my laptop with systemd which worked before. I'm unable to > > tell the changes I made since the last time it worked because according to > > my > > uptime,

Re: unable to boot with systemd (works with sysvinit)

2015-01-12 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:33:36PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > I'm not subscribed, so please keep me CC-ed. > > I'm unable to boot my laptop with systemd which worked before. I'm unable to > tell the changes I made since the last time it worked because according to my > uptime, the last ti

Re: Unable to boot UEFI installation

2013-07-25 Thread Marcus Karlsson
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 12:17:29PM +0300, Pertti Kosunen wrote: > On 20.7.2013 22:16, Marcus Karlsson wrote: > >Does anyone know why this happens or what I can do about it, apart from > >renaming the installed boot loader directory? > > Here are my notes for switching from legacy BIOS mode to UEFI

Re: Unable to boot UEFI installation

2013-07-21 Thread Pertti Kosunen
On 20.7.2013 22:16, Marcus Karlsson wrote: Does anyone know why this happens or what I can do about it, apart from renaming the installed boot loader directory? Here are my notes for switching from legacy BIOS mode to UEFI, manual grub binary and config install might help. # Booted in legac

Re: [solved] Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd (BIOS does not support CF booting)

2012-01-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/01/12 22:37, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi again, > > I could hardly believe it myself, but I actually got it working now, Glad to hear it, and congratulations! (CF boot space, the final frontier?) If you wanted to boot different CF cards you could possible compile those modules as GRUB modu

[solved] Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Lange
Hi again, I could hardly believe it myself, but I actually got it working now, finally the patch from the Puppy linux forum did it! It took me a while to figure out how to use it; because of my limited shell scripting capabilities I had to remove the smart automagic that checks for all available

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/01/12 23:51, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson > unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: > > >> What is the output from:- >> grub> lsmod > > More than fits on the screen, is there something particular I should look > for? Sorry, I overlooked that:- grub>

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/01/12 23:51, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson > unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: > > (...) >> >> Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from >> the CF card. >> Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) the

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Brian
On Sun 22 Jan 2012 at 13:51:11 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson > unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: > > (...) > > > > Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from > > the CF card. > > Having had the time to do a little Googling (about

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Dom
On 22/01/12 12:51, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: (...) Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from the CF card. Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) there are three possible

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson unto us on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:03:25 +1100: (...) > > Your laptop [*1] doesn't appear to have BIOS support for booting from > the CF card. > Having had the time to do a little Googling (about 10 minutes) there are > three possible routes (maybe more). > 1. Boot

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/01/12 20:59, Michael Lange wrote: > Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson > unto us on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:47:38 +1100: > >> On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote: > (...) >> > > That is interesting, I didn't know that, but how does grub then know about > the device when the BIOS doesn't? In

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Lange
Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson unto us on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:47:38 +1100: > On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote: (...) > > > > I wrote that the the BIOS doesn't know about the CF card, so I > > thought it is obvious that grub won't know about it either ;) > > That's incorrect - the BIOS doesn

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > Thus spoketh Brian > unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:01:56 +: > >> On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 20:52:23 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: >> >>> So I think what i would need is a way to start at least one of these >>> hotplug events, the one that install

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, Thus spoketh Brian unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:01:56 +: > On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 20:52:23 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > > > So I think what i would need is a way to start at least one of these > > hotplug events, the one that installs the CF card, from within the > > initrd, *before*

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-19 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 20:52:23 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > So I think what i would need is a way to start at least one of these > hotplug events, the one that installs the CF card, from within the > initrd, *before* it tries to mount / from a device which has not yet been > initialized. You did

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, Thus spoketh Brian unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:25:35 +: (...) > > The UUID on the 'search' line should be that of the partition on the CF > card which holds the kernel and the initrd. The line can omitted, as can > the 'set root' line. The 'linux' and 'initrd' lines are required. N

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-19 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Jan 2012 at 11:15:14 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > the grub.cfg entry: > > menuentry 'CFcard' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class > os { insmod part_msdos >insmod ext2 >set root='(hd0,msdos1)' >search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 7329bb28-71ea-4060-96a1-accae

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-18 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson unto us on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:10:40 +1100: (...) > > set root='(hd1,msdos1)' > > hd0 is the first hard drive (where /boot lives) I think root=(...) should not point to / but to grub's root, at least the page you linked suggests this: "GRUB uses GRUB's root de

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-18 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/01/12 21:15, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the reply. > > Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson > unto us on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:35 +1100: > >> >> At the grub prompt hit 'e' to enter edit mode. >> What where does GRUB expect the root to be? (should not be hd0, probably >> should be

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-18 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, thanks for the reply. Thus spoketh Scott Ferguson unto us on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:23:35 +1100: > > At the grub prompt hit 'e' to enter edit mode. > What where does GRUB expect the root to be? (should not be hd0, probably > should be hd1,1). the grub.cfg entry: menuentry 'CFcard' --class

Re: Unable to boot into CompactFlash card - card not found by initrd

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/01/12 07:08, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I already tried it somewhere else, but as no one knew help, I hope it > is ok to bother you, too ;) > > I am trying to boot my Dell Latitude X1 netbook into a CompactFlash card. > The system is debian squeeze. > The card is inserted into

Re: Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Don Juan
On 12/06/2011 09:23 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Bret Busby wrote: I downloaded a copy of the Debian 6.0.3 amd64 CD1 iso, to install it on a computer Using CD1 is a good choice. on which I had thought that I had been unable to instal Debian 6. What problems are you having trying to install it? Wh

Re: Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > I downloaded a copy of the Debian 6.0.3 amd64 CD1 iso, to install it > on a computer Using CD1 is a good choice. > on which I had thought that I had been unable to instal Debian 6. What problems are you having trying to install it? > When I booted the computer, to go into Ub

Re: Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Bret Busby
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: I would say that you or someone installed Debian 6.0.1, because when Ubuntu 10.04 was out, i think there was not Debian 6. I am the only person who accesses the computer, but I had previously had the impression that my previous

Re: Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
I would say that you or someone installed Debian 6.0.1, because when Ubuntu 10.04 was out, i think there was not Debian 6. Anyways it seems like you dropped into a virtual terminal, try to type in your user name, or anything, and in your screen should appear this: Password: If it does, maybe

Re: Unable to boot squeeze on sw raid array when external USB drive connected

2011-05-21 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
The consensus of people whom I've talked to is that, at the point where grub freezes, there's a problem with misidentification of hard drives when the USB drive is present (in essence, the USB drive is being mistaken for a member of the RAID-1 array; when the drive is absent, this mistake is not ma

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-06 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:10:44PM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:53:36PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote: > >> Dear debian users, > > > > Good afternoon > > > >> I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends > >> laptop r

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-06 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:53:36PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote: >> Dear debian users, > > Good afternoon > >> I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends >> laptop running sid, >> and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, > > Ah dam

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-06 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:44:31AM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > zhang zhengquan a écrit : > > Dear debian users, > > I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends > > laptop running sid, > > and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, > > I have a system rescu

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-06 Thread thveillon.debian
zhang zhengquan a écrit : > Dear debian users, > I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends > laptop running sid, > and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, > I have a system rescue cd that boots well in to another linux on the cdrom. > > I wonder if it is

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-05 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/5 Daniel Dalton : > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:53:36PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote: >> Dear debian users, > > Good afternoon > >> I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends >> laptop running sid, >> and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, > > Ah dam

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-05 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:53:36PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote: > Dear debian users, Good afternoon > I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends > laptop running sid, > and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, Ah damn! :) > I have a system rescue cd tha

[Solved]Re: Unable to boot into encrypted file system after upgrade etch --> lenny

2009-03-27 Thread klappnase
On 26 Mrz., 16:10, Michael Lange wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:41:26 +0200 > Ok, there seems to be a bug in debian's initramfs-tools that resembles a lot the one described at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507721 . In the last few days I learned how to unpack, edit and re-pa

Re: Unable to boot into encrypted file system after upgrade etch --> lenny

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:41:26 +0200 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > klappnase wrote: > > Hello, > > after I upgraded to lenny I am not able to boot the new kernel > > (2.6.26-1-686), however it still works using the old etch kernel > > (2.6.22-2-k7 from backports.org). About my system: There is an > > enc

Re: Unable to boot into encrypted file system after upgrade etch --> lenny

2009-03-26 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
klappnase wrote: Hello, after I upgraded to lenny I am not able to boot the new kernel (2.6.26-1-686), however it still works using the old etch kernel (2.6.22-2-k7 from backports.org). About my system: There is an encrypted root partition on /dev/hda1 and a separate /boot partition on /dev/hda4.

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:20:53AM +, Kjö wrote: > You're right, the problem was in mount, and was quite stupid. My XFS file > system > was broken. I solved the problem by : > - booting on a liveCD (an Ubuntu one) > - installing cryptsetup and lvm2 > - modprobe dm_mod > - modprobe aes > - cryp

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-03-02 Thread Kjö
You're right, the problem was in mount, and was quite stupid. My XFS file system was broken. I solved the problem by : - booting on a liveCD (an Ubuntu one) - installing cryptsetup and lvm2 - modprobe dm_mod - modprobe aes - cryptsetup sda2 hda2_crypt - vgchange -a y [vg] - adding swap : swapon /de

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:20:07AM +, Kjo wrote: > I booted on an install CD ins rescue mode and tried this tuto : > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Rescue/Crypto > > # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/hda2 sda2_crypt > works > > # vgchange -a y [vg] > works > > # mount /dev/[vg]/root /targe

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-25 Thread Kjo
I booted on an install CD ins rescue mode and tried this tuto : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Rescue/Crypto # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/hda2 sda2_crypt works # vgchange -a y [vg] works # mount /dev/[vg]/root /target fails, and outputs : # mount: Mounting /dev/[vg]/root on /target failed

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-24 Thread Kjö
> my system automatically keeps one backup of the initrds. Yours might > as well. Edit the initrd line in your grub boot from the grub > prompt. You can use tab completion to see what initrd's are > available. Mine are all of the form initrd.img- version>-.bak I tried them, it begins to boot but b

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:20:31AM +, Kjö wrote: > > > cryptsetup: unknown fstype, bad password or options? > > > Command failed: Device busy > > > Command failed: Device already exists > > > cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? > > > Command failed: Device already exists > >

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-23 Thread Kjö
> > cryptsetup: unknown fstype, bad password or options? > > Command failed: Device busy > > Command failed: Device already exists > > cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? > > Command failed: Device already exists > > cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? > > cr

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:07:40PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi ! > > Feb 19th, I upgraded my debian testing as I do about twice a week. My > computer was then turned off (but I thing the upgrade was finished) and > I'm not able to boot anymore : I get these error messages : > > Setting u

Re: Re: unable to boot

2007-10-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:29:48PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks for reply, > > I have installed many and many debian on different machines ( which have > Xp, and others Os ), so I am not new to debian. This is the first time I > meet this problem, with VISTA on Laptop > The inst

Re: Re: unable to boot

2007-10-24 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks for reply, I have installed many and many debian on different machines ( which have Xp, and others Os ), so I am not new to debian. This is the first time I meet this problem, with VISTA on Laptop The installation is done normally without any error, I did it twice , at reboot grub trie

Re: unable to boot

2007-10-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 06:41:03PM +0200, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I bought a toshiba (duo-core 1gb memory) laptop with vista, > > I want to install debian, first problem If I use the recovery wind > disk, All the disk is erased , even If I created partition ?? > > Second problem mor

Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-23 Thread Henrik Enberg
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Next I transferred boot.img, debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso onto a USB > > drive. > > Instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en > > say that these two files are sufficient to start the instal

Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-23 Thread Joey Hess
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Next I transferred boot.img, debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso onto a USB > drive. > Instructions on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en > say that these two files are sufficient to start the installation process. You don't copy boot.img onto t

Re: unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:43:43AM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I am using Dell Inspiron E1505. Currently it has Windows XP and I wanted to > install Debian Etch on it using the USB drive method. > > I downloaded boot.img.gz from > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/instal

Re: unable to boot from memory stick

2006-11-09 Thread pol
pol wrote: > I have followed instructions from http://d-i.pascal.at/ > and used 1gb 'dikom' memory stick. The memory stick has been read, at last - i do not know how did i succeed, but i did. Now my problem is that the installer cannot find the iso image, which is in the memory stick. I have c

Re: unable to boot from memory stick

2006-11-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:36:50AM +0100, pol wrote: > hi all, > > I am trying to boot my hp tablet tc4200 from the usb memory stick, so as to > be able to install debian on it, yet booting fails due to "missing > operating system" > > I have followed instructions from http://d-i.pascal.at/

Re: unable to boot from memory stick

2006-11-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:36:50AM +0100, pol wrote: > hi all, > > I am trying to boot my hp tablet tc4200 from the usb memory stick, so as to > be able to install debian on it, yet booting fails due to "missing > operating system" > > I have followed instructions from http://d-i.pascal.at/

Re: Unable to boot from HD - or make boot floppy

2004-02-14 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 04:25:42PM +, Mark wrote: > Yeah - just been through a very similar battle with an Epox motherboard > EP-8RDA and a Samsung 80G and a Maxtor 60G drives. > > I won't bore you with all the hassles, but in my case (after hours of > digging), I discovered that the BIOS has

Re: Unable to boot from HD - or make boot floppy

2004-02-11 Thread Mark
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 11:51:52AM -0800, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hullo the group! > > I've a got machine that I've been fighting with to make a usable > router. Debian Woody installed just dandy - but I cannot get it to boot > using either LILO or GRUB - I get errors going to stage 1.5 from GRU

Re: Unable to boot from HD - or make boot floppy

2004-02-05 Thread Daniel Miller
Pedro M. wrote: Daniel Miller wrote: Hullo the group! I've a got machine that I've been fighting with to make a usable router. Debian Woody installed just dandy - but I cannot get it to boot using either LILO or GRUB - I get errors going to stage 1.5 from GRUB and LILO usually hangs up with

Re: Unable to boot from HD - or make boot floppy

2004-02-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Daniel Miller (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've a got machine that I've been fighting with to make a usable > router. Debian Woody installed just dandy - but I cannot get it to > boot using either LILO or GRUB - I get errors going to stage 1.5 from > GRUB and LILO usually hangs up with L

Re: Unable to boot from HD - or make boot floppy

2004-02-05 Thread Pedro M.
Daniel Miller wrote: Hullo the group! I've a got machine that I've been fighting with to make a usable router. Debian Woody installed just dandy - but I cannot get it to boot using either LILO or GRUB - I get errors going to stage 1.5 from GRUB and LILO usually hangs up with L0 L0 L0, etc. I'

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