Unable to boot with LVM.

2022-04-22 Thread Maliga Saman
Hi, I get an error while trying to setup LVM and boot from it. Please find the screenshot of the error attached with this email. Any ideas? Regards, Maliga Saman. Mobile: +91 9444281879

Unable to boot with LVM.

2022-04-22 Thread Maliga Saman
Hi, I get an error while trying to setup LVM and boot from it. Please find the screenshot of the error attached with this email. Any ideas? Regards, Maliga Saman. Mobile: +91 9444281879

Unable to boot with LVM.

2022-04-22 Thread Maliga Saman
Hi, I get an error while trying to setup LVM and boot from it. Please find the screenshot of the error attached with this email. Any ideas? Regards, Maliga Saman. Mobile: +91 9444281879

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

Unable to boot UEFI laptop from Debian 11 Live USB stick

2022-02-07 Thread Flacusbigotis
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 the same for Knoppix 9.1 following their instructions. So not sure why

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

Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-23 Thread John Mok
Hi, Tried to install Buster on Xen HVM + OVMF. Installation completed successfully, but unable to boot (Windows HVM guest has no boot problem). Re-install Buster with BIOS and boot succeeded. OVMF boot NOT supported on Debian ? I hope someone could point me in the right direction. Best regards

[OT]etiquette was: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-29 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 05:31:02PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > 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 i

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: Additional information to add to "Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4"

2020-07-29 Thread Hans
emctl get-default if the output is not --> graphical.targetthen$ > systemctl set-default graphical.targetthen$ starx > Le mer. 29 juil. 2020 à 09:15, gajuph4...@yahoo.com a écrit : > > Hi guys > > > > I posted a request for help titled "Unable to boot into the Gno

Re: Additional information to add to "Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4"

2020-07-29 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:53:58PM +0200, echo test wrote: > try > > $ systemctl get-default > > if the output is not --> graphical.target > > then > > $ systemctl set-default graphical.target > > then > > $ starx ^^ startx ^ :-) Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: Digital

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: Additional information to add to "Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4"

2020-07-29 Thread echo test
try $ systemctl get-default if the output is not --> graphical.target then $ systemctl set-default graphical.target then $ starx Le mer. 29 juil. 2020 à 09:15, gajuph4...@yahoo.com a écrit : > Hi guys > > I posted a request for help titled "Unable to boot into

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

2020-07-28 Thread Mick Kent
- Original Message -- From: "gajuph4...@yahoo.com" To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Sent: 7/28/2020 2:36:06 PM Subject: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4 I chose the option Expert Install when I installed Debian Buster. I did not i

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

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

2020-07-28 Thread gajuph4...@yahoo.com
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 installed the packages named below: xorg gnome-

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

Unable to boot new buster installation

2020-06-07 Thread Gary L. Roach
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 input timing is not supported by the monito

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

Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Daniel Fishman
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 words: BIOS/GTP). I partitioned the HDD accordingly (s

Re: Conversion to btrfs raid1 profile on added ext device renders some systems unable to boot into converted rootfs

2018-10-23 Thread Qu Wenruo
Add Cc to debian user list. On 2018/10/24 上午3:21, Tony Prokott wrote: > The trouble is yet unresolved, symptoms are as they were, but I've diagnosed > a step further. Maybe you can help me advance the diagnosis or better pose my > question among debian experts, related to adjusting the building

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

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

2016-01-05 Thread Ben Wagner
I have been running Debian Jessie on my laptop for more than a year. The laptop has a regular HDD as /dev/sda and a 32G SSD drive as /dev/sdb. /dev/sda11 is LUKS1-encrypted as /dev/mapper/sda11-crypt. There are two LVM VGs: $ pvs PV VGFmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/ma

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 accordin

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 la

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 accord

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 acco

unable to boot with systemd (works with sysvinit)

2015-01-10 Thread Johannes Schauer
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 rebooted was September last year. The output of `jou

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

Unable to boot UEFI installation

2013-07-20 Thread Marcus Karlsson
ubuntu directory made the machine unable to boot again. This is the output from efibootmgr: # efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder: ,0001,0002,0003,0004 Boot* debian HD(1,800,f3800,cc9862e4-6391-4ba2-9105-2692e627993f)File(\EFI\debian\grubx64.efi) Boot0001

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

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

2012-01-17 Thread Michael Lange
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 the netbook's built-in CF card slot, which apparently is

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

Unable to boot Debian 6

2011-12-06 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I downloaded a copy of the Debian 6.0.3 amd64 CD1 iso, to install it on a computer on which I had thought that I had been unable to instal Debian 6. When I booted the computer, to go into Ubuntu 10.04, to reboot with the CD, I found that the GRUB menu included an installation of Debia

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

2011-05-21 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
connected to the computer, > it's unable to boot, instead it hangs with the "Welcome to GRUB!" message on > the screen. Through copious use of echo statements, I've traced the problem > down to the following code block near the top of grub.cfg: > > insmod raid

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

2011-05-19 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi there -- I am running squeeze with a non-RAID boot partition and a RAID-1 main partition. I use GRUB2 as my bootloader. My problem is the following: When I have my Seagate FreeAgent USB hard drive connected to the computer, it's unable to boot, instead it hangs with the "Welco

Squeeze. Netinstall image unable to boot in VirtualBox

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! I have downloaded debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso (15-09-2010) and trying to install a system from that in Oracle VirtualBox. The boot process is not starting. "FATAL: Could not read from boot media! System halted" MD5 sum is correct. Please, help. Thanks in advance! -- Sincerely

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

2009-04-06 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
h 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 that boots well in to another linux on the > >> cdrom. > > &

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 i

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 afte

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. > &

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

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 s

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

2009-04-05 Thread zhang zhengquan
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 possible to uninstall the package

[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.

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

2009-03-25 Thread klappnase
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. When booting the n

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