Re: Stretch System Stops Boot Process Immediately After Grub Screen (me too!)
Mike Conde wrote:
> I am having exactly the same problem as Jape Person's post from Oct 22
> 2016, except my hardware environment is completely different.
>
> I am running Debian testing/Stretch 64-bit on a virtual machine under
> virtualbox. The host OS is Windows 7 64-bit.
>
> I don't know exactly which kernel update was the culprit because I got
> behind on my updates, but I think the problem appeared sometime around
> 4.7.6 or so.
>
> I still have a 4.6 kernel image on the VM so I am able to boot to that
> just fine.
>
> To be specific, after the grub menu disappears the screen goes blank and
> there is no further activity, no matter how long I wait. Choosing
> recovery
> mode in grub does not change anything. Also redirecting the console out a
> serial port doesn't provide any info -- no serial data is transmitted.
>
> I thought this might be a virtualbox compatibility problem, but since
> someone else is experiencing the same thing on a non-VM machine I now
> suspect the kernel.
>
> Should I post this as a bug somewere, and if so where?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Mike Conde
Have you checked your boot partition - does it have enough free space?
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