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#1 2016-05-31 15:24:29

Davy
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[SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Hello,
I've just finished installing Crunchbang (Hydrogen-amd64) onto my new computer. I have a problem when booting it up. The GRUB starts up and I select "BunsenLabs GNU/Linux". I get a message saying "Loading. please wait" then "Scanning for Btrfs filesystems..." and after a moment: "/dev/sdb1: clean, 100853/610800 files, 688614/2441216 blocks". Then nothing else, it just sits like that.

/dev/sdb1 is the root partition. I have a ssd and a normal harddrive: the ssd being sdb and the normal harddrive being sda. The normal hardrive has the /home partition and the ssd has the root and swap partitions. None of them are btrfs, I don't think.

I've tried going through the installation from fresh a few times, but no joy.
I'm very new to this, and any help would be much appreciated.

Davy

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#2 2016-05-31 15:35:18

xaos52
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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Hi Davy,
Can you give us more details about your computer - make and model.

The messages you are seeing are normal. Nothing to worry about.

Can you give it a couple of minutes while it is 'just sitting there' to see if it comes back.

Do you have numlock or caps-lock indicators on the computer? Do they go on and off when you press the corresponding keys? If not your system is hard-locked, else it is still working.

Edit:
What medium are you booting from?
How did you transfer the ISO image to that medium?

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#3 2016-05-31 16:27:07

Davy
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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Thanks for replying, xaos,
Here's a pcpartpicker list of all the parts in the computer: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4brWGf
I've had it sitting next to me for half an hour now with the same text on it.
The capslock and numlock lights on my keyboard stay off when I press their keys.
It should be booting from the ssd: "/dev/sdb"
I used "Win32DiskImager" to burn the image to a usb.

One thing I forgot to mention: I tried starting it in recovery mode, and when it stopped on "[ OK ] Started udev Coldplug all Devices" for twenty minutes (I couldn't turn on capslock or numlock here either) I turned it off and tried again with the normal mode, and this time instead of just saying:

Loading, please wait.
Scanning for Btrfs filesystems..
/dev/sdb1: clean, 100853/610800 files, 688614/2441216 blocks
_

it now said (changes in bold)

Loading, please wait.
Scanning for Btrfs filesystems..
/dev/sdb1: recovering journal
/dev/sdb1: clean, 100853/610800 files, 688686/2441216 blocks
_

Davy

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#4 2016-05-31 18:20:27

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Again those messages are normal.
You are rebooting after a hard poweroff, so the system is recovering its filesystem from its journal.
Also the 'file system check' is for /dev/sdb1. Looks like it finds your root file system on /dev/sdb.

Can you try installing on the hard disk in stead of the SSD, and boot from there?

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#5 2016-05-31 18:37:56

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

This is just a guess. The package dependency 'btrfs-tools' is used by the system snapshot application 'snapper.' Few months ago,

I removed the 'snapper' application from my Bunsenlabs 8.2 hydrogen. But, GRUB did not work as it should until I also

removed the package 'btrfs-tools.' (When 'btrfs-tools' was removed GRUB no longer scanned for btrfs files at boot time.)

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#6 2016-05-31 19:56:48

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Huh, when I tried being straightforward by installing it on sda (the hard disl) with no fancy settings it successfully installed and automatically rebooted so it could startup like before, and now it says this:

error: no such partition.
Entering rescue mode...
grub rescue> _

It's been like that for ten, maybe fifteen minutes now.

EDIT1: Oh! How silly of me. I can enter commands here. Not sure what to do though.
EDIT2: I'm looking in to how to use the "GRUB rescue" now. Not sure if I should just try and re-install, because it looks like I did something wrong in the installation. Maybe I need to reformat the ssd, because the bootloader might still be on that
EDIT3: Ah, I see the problem with that though. When I turn off the computer and change the boot sequence to use my usb first, it still does that grub rescue thing.
EDIT4: I think I managed to fix that by pointing it to where the GRUB files were.

Davy

Last edited by Davy (2016-05-31 20:29:42)

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#7 2016-05-31 21:42:51

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

ok, I've installed everything to sda: the normal hardrive. When I selected GNU/Linux from the grub menu this printed:

Loading, please wait...
Scanning for Btrfs flesystems
/dev/sda1: clean, 100761/610800 files, 687545/2441216 blocks
[    3.935345] nouveau E[  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] unknown chipset, 0x126020a1
[    3.935379] nouveau E[     DRM][ failed to create 0x80000080, -22
_

I'm leaving it just in case it's just taking a long while to load, but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere.

Davy

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#8 2016-05-31 21:46:31

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Can you switch to a console screen with <Ctrl>+<Alt>+F2?

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#9 2016-05-31 21:50:06

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Can you switch to a console screen with <Ctrl>+<Alt>+F2?

No, Nothing happens.

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#10 2016-05-31 21:56:03

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Does the live environment on the BunsenLabs ISO image work with your hardware?

You could try disabling kernel modesetting.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ke … odesetting

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#11 2016-05-31 22:06:11

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Does the live environment on the BunsenLabs ISO image work with your hardware?

You could try disabling kernel modesetting.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ke … odesetting

Yes, it works grand. I'll try without kernal modesetting nonetheless

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#12 2016-05-31 22:19:56

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Great! Adding nomodeset to the kernal boot parameters worked a charm. I wonder if it will be fixed after I install drivers for the graphics card. I'll have a further look into this to see how best to proceed. Thanks a million for the help!

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#13 2016-06-01 07:47:46

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

You're welcome smile

I have marked the thread [SOLVED]

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#14 2016-07-30 04:21:03

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Could you please explain what is the most simple way to add nomodeset to the kernel boot parameters? How can I do it during install procedure? After it?

I have the same problem with Debian Jessie netinst and Bunsenlabs. So its at least Debian scale problem. No problems with Lenovo X220 laptop with 64gb ssd home computer, but hangs on a Dell XPS 8700 desktop with 500gb ssd, dual boot Win10 work computer.

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#15 2016-07-30 09:59:20

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#16 2016-08-01 05:54:06

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Re: [SOLVED] Startup gets stuck

Works. Installed new Nvidia driver. Thank you!

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