Thanks a lot for your helpful responses guys. I'm at a public computer right now and haven't had a chance to try your ideas yet, but I've noticed a few things that I'd like to clarify:
On 5/9/13, Chris Swenson <ch...@cswenson.com> wrote: > Given that these problems were occurring before, I'm guessing you have bad > hardware that just decided to coincidentally die with your new install of > the OS. Perhaps all the writes to the disk did it when you upgraded. I installed Wheezy from the get-go on this machine; I had done a few apt-get upgrades but no major distribution upgrades. Oddly enough, the hardware didn't seem to die in conjunction with anything important; just a reboot. On 5/10/13, "Артём Н." <artio...@yandex.ru> wrote: > 10.05.2013 05:04, Harry Prevor пишет: >> The normal images didn't work >> for some reason now forgotten, so I had to use the unofficial >> installation images that included nonfree drivers. > What are the drivers? I've forgotten by now, but all I remember is that the official USB installation images didn't work because they thought my USB was a CD drive or something along those lines, and then tried to look for CD drives and failed (because I have none on this machine). I asked #debian about it and they said to try the unofficial images, so I did and they worked fine. > How did you install the system? From DVD or from network? Or in some other > way? I installed it via the unofficial USB installation images with included proprietary drivers. >> - Two HDDs connected and set via /etc/fstab to mount on boot (this >> configuration worked in previous boots so I doubt that is the issue) > SSD? No; they are HDDs unfortunately. On 5/10/13, vi...@tiensuu.eu <vi...@tiensuu.eu> wrote: > Have you installed/upgraded any drivers or installed a new kernel just > before you rebooted the system and it started to crash on boot like this? > Nvidia's proprietary drivers have always been a pain. No, or at least, not that I know of. I might have done an apt-get upgrade or something, but nothing major. I had already booted successfully directly after installing the nvidia driver before. On 5/10/13, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > If the only proprietary driver you need is the Nvidia X driver, then a > rescue disc will work fine for you. You're likely to be pottering about > at the command line anyway. I don't *need* the nvidia driver at all; everything works in the installation without the drivers AFAIK -- But because my brother uses this machine for gaming he needs the better 3D performance, so I installed it after installing the system. I had to use the installation image with drivers for other reasons -- See above. When I get home, here is a list of the things I'll try, in order: - Make sure the RAM is securely in place - Try to boot into single-user mode via GRUB; if that doesn't work, I'll try going in via a LiveUSB and chroot into the system - Pastebin /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog - Pastebin partition / filesystem information - Pastebin /etc/fstab plus result of sfdisk -lxuM /dev/sd - Pastebin debsums -c - Run fsck on my hard drives - Include SMART logs (will look that up later) - Install and try out the memory checking package If any of this is wrong, please let me know. Thanks again. -- Harry Prevor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cabafzd2de-61csvhkonbahpjxuhw4r+rva4xonr1koe85f-...@mail.gmail.com