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2012.2 install went fine. But
Grandpa:
After several months of not being able to boot my kde 2011.9(I think it was 2011.9). I decided to stop waiting on the 64bit version and install kde 2012.2. I had tried several other versions of kde PCLinuxOS. All would leave me at "localhost" login. However PCLinuxOS Gnome MMXll would boot. I was going to use that, but could not bring myself to leave kde. Yesterday I came upon "AS" instructions
"Also, at LiveCD Grub prompt, press F6 (options) remove the option "quiet" and change "splash=silent" to "splash=verbose", you will have a chance to see what is going on"
I tried that and the live c-d of 2012.2 would boot. Today I installed it. I only wanted to install "/". I have done that in the pass. I don't lose any data that way. So again today that is what I did. Everything went along fine. when the Grub menu came up I changed the first option to read "PClinuxOS 2012.2. Saved that and rebooted after removing the c-d when told to.
Now the grub login screen comes up and reads as follows.
PClinuxOS 2012.2
Boot PClinuxOS Safe mode
Boot Windows
Now the problem!!!
If I click on either one of the first two options the first thing I see is "Can not open file. delete". If I click on "boot windows" Win 7 will boot. Finally after hours shaking my head wondering what the he** to do next I tried again to boot this time pressing "f3" for Kernel Options and selecting "Safe Settings". If I then select the option to boot "PClinuxOS 2012.2 I get the same message "can not open file delete". But if I choose "Safe mode" I also get the same screen, but after a few seconds it starts up again and boots into 2012.2 kde PClinuxOS. Everything looks as it should all my data is there like I wanted. I went to synaptic and updated. I also installed Liberoffice. The only thing the scroll wheel on the mouse does not work. Need to work on that.
I need some help on how to boot without having to press "f3" etc.
I know this very long of a post but I wanted it to be clear what I did and how I did it from the start. Hope I didn't just muddy the waters to much. Any help on the two problems would be very much appreciated. Thanks for your time reading this and your replies.
Just17:
How long did you wait after seeing the "Can not open file. delete" message?
That message is common ...... has been on every boot I made for quite some time, and can be ignored.
Grandpa:
Will reboot and time the wait. Thanks for the reply.
(edit)
I used the stopwatch on my cell phone.
After 3 min 14 sec. this message came.
Call Trace:
[<c0439408>] ? panic+0x66/0x161
[<c0140f3e>] ? do_exit+0x74e/0x750
[<c014116e>] ? do_group_exit0x3e/0xa0
[<c01411e8>] ? sys_exit_group+0x180x20
[<c043c968>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
I waited another 9 min(had to copy this down) nothing happen. This is what I got using both options to boot PClinuxOS. I then did the f3 thing and booted back into PClinuxOS.
AS:
--- Quote from: Grandpa on February 21, 2012, 04:28:08 PM ---Will reboot and time the wait. Thanks for the reply.
(edit)
I used the stopwatch on my cell phone.
After 3 min 14 sec. this message came.
Call Trace:
[<c0439408>] ? panic+0x66/0x161
[<c0140f3e>] ? do_exit+0x74e/0x750
[<c014116e>] ? do_group_exit0x3e/0xa0
[<c01411e8>] ? sys_exit_group+0x180x20
[<c043c968>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb
I waited another 9 min(had to copy this down) nothing happen. This is what I got using both options to boot PClinuxOS. I then did the f3 thing and booted back into PClinuxOS.
--- End quote ---
apparently it is a kernel panic ... (kernel crashed) ... if so you should see the keyboard leds blinking ...
and that doesn't happen if you use "splash=verbose" and remove the "quiet" option, correct ?
Grandpa:
You are right on the leds blinking. I had never noticed that before. The rest about "splash=verbose and quiet i don't know. When I press f3 I then choose "safeboot". There are different things that show up on that line. But I don't know how to see things that I can't see. Boy that sounds dumb. What I am trying to say is there is more written then you can see. How do you move along that. Can't seem to get the cursor down there.
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