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Re: Unable too boot after fresh install of latest "testing"



Am 10.11.2014 um 15:41 schrieb Raffaele Morelli:
> On 10/11/14 at 03:01pm, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:16:59 +0200
>> Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have been using "testing" for quite some time. Saturday, I upgraded to 
>>> the latest version. That was a disaster. Eventually I gave up fixing the 
>>> upgrade and performed a fresh install (with encrypted root file system). 
>>> No matter what I did (I tried 5 - 6 fresh installs on two disks, and a 
>>> few boots into rescue mode to try to execute grub-install or update-grub 
>>> manually), I was unable to boot after the upgrade.
>>>
>>> After the upgrade, I have a black screen with a little cursor blinking 
>>> in the upper, left corner. No messages from grub. No response when I 
>>> press keys on the keyboard. No time-out. It just stays there.
>>>
> 
> You still should be able to switch to another console with Ctrl+Alt+F{1-6}.

From Jarle's description, he doesn't seem to get this far.

It rather looks like it's a problem in GRUB/bootloader or the initramfs.
It's a bit hard to tell with the amount of information we have so far.


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