Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot
Kent West composed on 2017-04-26 13:35 (UTC-0500):
> Don Armstrong wrote:
>> 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.
> In /etc/default/grub, I commented out the line that mentioned "quiet", and
> in the next line, added between the quotes "nomodeset", ran "update-grub",
> and rebooted.
> Frozen....
"Edit the grub command command line" was meant to be done on the fly, a
temporary test, done at the grub menu at boot time. Removing quiet allows boot
messages to appear that may provide clues to what is or is not happening.
Nomodeset is a crutch that should usually be done all by itself and only when
the problem encountered is known to be (Xorg usually) video-related.
Your Grub menu should have a failsafe selection. Have you tried selecting it?
Adding noresume to the cmdline at boot time might be a useful diagnostic.
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