Re: please help! debian won't boot

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 13/12/2017 à 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă a écrit :
> On 13-12-2017, at 01h 41'15", Jason Brenkus wrote about "please help! debian won't boot"
> > I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what went
> > wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to load and
> > then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then nothing happens no
> > matter how long i wait. If i boot in to recover mode i get a screen that
> > says #IPv6: ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready. And no
> > amount of waiting changes it. I had trouble getting the correct drivers for
> > my gpu which is a amd radeon r9 270 i believe. The last thing i did before
> > the system didn't boot was install a mining program.
>
> Not knowing that is wrong I would reinstall grub.

IMO it would be a total waste of time. What makes you think that GRUB is 
broken ?

> It is important to know if the system stops before or after
> loading the kernel, etc.

We already know. The above message happens when the ethernet interface 
is activated, which means that the kernel was loaded and started, the 
initramfs was loaded and did its job and the init system started its tasks.