Bianca Freezes on initial boot

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:16 pm

I wonder if it is really freezing or if just the graphics are freezing.

next time you are able to login edit the grub file

# sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

and remove the quiet from the boot command and comment out the splash screen line (put a # in the front of the line).

this will let you see at boot where the system is freezing or timing out...
or at least give us more info.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:35 pm

Just for testing you could turn off USB in the bios (if you can, or at least check its settings) and then test booting the system to see if it is the hardware or the kernel driver causing the problem.

unless the problem is whatever is initialised after the USB and we just cann't see it yet.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:00 am

I have heard of those types of readers doing strange things but not at boot up.
It could be fixed with a newer kernel but that could break other things.
what kernel are you running? (or the original one could fix it)

uname -p

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:15 am

oops wrong unix system. haha

uname -a tells you everything.

if you still have kernel 2.6.27-10 installed boot off it and see if you still get that error.
you can reinstall it from synaptic but you may need to force it because it may complain that a newer one is installed. (bloody computers).