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Offline Vorteggs

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Re: after full update machine will not boot
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2011, 05:37:17 AM »
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Offline gilado

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Re: after full update machine will not boot
« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2011, 01:57:36 PM »
I tried the redo mbr program from the live cd menu. it did not help.

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Re: after full update machine will not boot
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2011, 02:13:33 PM »
Quote from: gilado on August 08, 2011, 01:57:36 PM
I tried the redo mbr program from the live cd menu. it did not help.



Check you hard drive connections... unplug and replug at both ends of the data cable... unplug and replug the power connection.
It could be that only a single pin of the data cable is not making good contact, but it's enough to throw the BIOS for a loop looking for the boot code. Also check the CMOS battery.

How old is the machine in question? What are the system specs?

I bring up the cable because one of my external drives (the boot drive) kept getting lost at the most inconvenient tiles while attached by the E-SATA cable. Removing that troublesome cable and connecting with the USB cable solved the problem until I can get a new E-SATA cable.
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Re: after full update machine will not boot
« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2011, 10:55:11 PM »
So I decided to reinstall.

I downloaded and burnt 2011.6 reboot into this live CD and selected install pclinuxos.

I chose to use existing partitions (as you might recall I have separate (/), home, var) and only format root.

After the install was done, I clicked next, however, the install screen would not disappear.

Used ctl-alt-f1 to get a console and logged in as root. tried to unmount /mnt/install but it was held by a process. fuser revealed it to be /usr/bin/acpid. killed process then executed reboot from the command line.

During reboot, the machine dropped into emergency shell (sh4.1 #)

Typed 'init 5' and the machine continued to complete the install asking for a root password then for a user credentials. Entered the same root password and username/password as the old system had.

Install continued to pick up the old /home and /var directories, and the old user account on home.

Summary: machine now works fine, running 2011.6. I have not lost any data!

Hurray :) :) :)

I'd like to thank y'all for taking the time to help me!!!

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