Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> wrote:

From: westk@acu.edu
To: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

Both fresh minimal installs of Jessie.

Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" just after grub, requiring holding the power button for 8 seconds to power off. Then power on, and it boots normally.

what do you mean minimal install, can you be more specific?

Normal Jessie install, but when it came time to do the "tasksel"-looking stage within the installer, I uninstalled everything. After the install I then manually installed x-window-system-core, xfce4, firefox-esr, libreoffice, ssh, and a few other utilities like rsycn and cups.

was the disk/partition clean or did you install on top of another installation?

The machine shipped with Windows, but during the partitioning stage of the Jessie install I told it to do the Guided, using entire disk, and then tweaked that manually a bit.

the last Jessie linux kernel was updated a couple of months ago, I doubt they have left any Dell hardware out.

Yeah, but apparently what ships with the Jessie installation is a 3.16. I upgraded the system to stretch, thereby getting a 4.19 kernel, and the problem so far(!, after five successful boots) has gone away.

Newish is probably something made in 2016?

2016/06/30

Dell-freak

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Subject: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot
Local Time: April 26, 2017 6:21 PM
UTC Time: April 26, 2017 3:21 PM
From: westk@acu.edu
To: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

Two identical newish Dell desktops. Configured for non-legacy, UEFI-only booting. No Secure-Boot or Fast Boot.

Both fresh minimal installs of Jessie.

Every other boot results in a hang at "Initializing Ramdisk" just after grub, requiring holding the power button for 8 seconds to power off. Then power on, and it boots normally.

Suggestions?

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