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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mageia3-B2 will no longer boot</H1>
<B>Maurice Batey</B>
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<I>Wed Mar 20 23:03:12 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>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...
Suggestions welcome!
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/\/\aurice
(Retired in Surrey, UK) Registered Linux User #487649
Linux 64-bit Mageia-2
KDE 4.8.5 Virtualbox 4.1.14 Firefox 17.0.3 KMail 4.8.5
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