[Mageia-dev] Mageia3-B2 will no longer boot

Thu Mar 21 00:23:06 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Maurice Batey at 20/03/13 22:03 did gyre and gimble:
+> On my netbook, the bread-and-butter install is Mageia-2, but I have also
+> been trying Mageia-3B2 to try to check out the Broadcom WiFi situation.
+> 
+> Until the last Cauldron update I made 2 weeks ago, all has gone well,
+> except the last time I used it was difficult to boot it, often needing 2-3
+> attempts.
+> 
+> Today I checked again and it repeatedly failed to boot.
+>   (Mageia-2 still boots reliably.)
+>   
+> When the Mageia-3B2 boot starts, it gets as far as 3 bubbles over the
+> cauldron, then the screen goes blank, there is still a lot of disk activity
+> for a few seconds, then nothing - even after 5 minutes.
+>   However , if I then tap the netbook's 'off' switch, momentarily I see a
+> cauldron with *5* bubbles flash onto the screen before the screen dies from
+> power-down.
+> 
+> I could access  the Mageia-3B2 install from Mageia-2 if anyone can suggest
+> what settings might be usefully checked and/or changed.
+> 
+>   In the meantime my Mageia-3B2 is dead in the water...
+
+Have you tried switching to ctl+alt+f2 to see if you get a text login?
+
+Failing that, edit your kernel command line, and remove the quiet and
+splash options, and add systemd.log_level=debug
+systemd.log_target=console+journal
+
+Then see how far you get.
+
+
+It's likely waiting for something to complete, or some job had to be
+ejected due to initscript conflicts etc.
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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