Re: please help! debian won't boot

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

When you downloaded what you used to install debian, did the file have a 
.torrent on the end of it?  If not you may have better luck by using a 
bittorrent client and downloading the torrent form of the file.  Reason 
is integrity checks get done as you download and it could be you got a 
bad download using another form of download file.  Another suggestion I 
would make since you may have some pretty far out hardware is to 
download the image that starts with firmware- and ends with .torrent. 
It should also have x86 somewhere in the name of the image to match as 
closely as possible your hardware.  Good luck.

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Jason Brenkus wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:02:29
> From: Jason Brenkus <jasonbrenkus@gmail.com>
> To: Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? <I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com>,
>     debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: please help! debian won't boot
> Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 07:02:48 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> By cursor what I mean is a flashing underscore line. I tried reinstalling
> grub2 using super grub. At first I didn't think anything happened, but now
> I'm getting more then a blinking cursor.  The screen now says #floppy0: no
> floppy controllers found
> # r8169 0000:03:00.0 eth0: link up
> # Ipv6: ADDCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready.
>
> I tried to record the script that show before this screen and it looks like
> there is a lot loading, but I saw one place in the script that had a red
> FAILED and it looks like it says #failed to start load kernel modules
> It would probably be easier to reinstall, but I'm trying to learn linux.
> Any more suggestions?
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? <
> I.M.Ciobica@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 13-12-2017, at 19h 55'54", Pascal Hambourg wrote about "Re: please
> > help! debian won't boot"
> > > Le 13/12/2017 ? 10:54, Ionel Mugurel Ciob?c? a ?crit :
> > > > 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 ?
> >
> > When you do not know too much about what is the status of the system
> > anything may be a total waste of time.
> >
> > In the past when using Lilo I got this kind of behaviour. Instead of
> > loading the kernel, just after BIOS I would ket a blinking cursor.
> >
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Then you know more than me. I will say then that X config is broken.
> >
> > What induced me in error was the word cursor. For me that was in tty1
> > a blinking underscore line. What Jason may have meant was an X shape
> > mouse, for example.
> >
> > Ionel

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