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Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot



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.

Try booting without the quiet option, and possibly with nomodeset, and
see if it works. [You'll have to edit the grub command line to do this.]

Your newish hardware may require a backported kernel to function reliably.


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