] Hi
I have a Qosmio G25 lap top that I haven't used for a while. I now need
it and decided to upgrade to the latest stable release (jessie). I
updated wheezy to its latest version before upgrading to jessie. I then
changed the sources.list to stable and proceeded with the upgrade.
Everything seemed to work fine. But, on reboot the system got to
"Waiting for /dev/to be fully populated ..." and stalled. After 60
seconds it started printing out [ 70.866964] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0
stuck for 61s! [swapper:0] messages.
The system is a dual boot but on separate 60GB hard drives. Windows XP
is on the first drive and Debian Linux on the second. A grub loader is
used.
I have tried to load the latest Debian netinstall disk. The disk won't
start. The windows side still works fine. Knoppix loads OK but since I
only have one disk drive that is no help. I have tried to create a usb
sd copy but have not been able to create a usable copy. I read somewhere
that loading the .iso copy to the sd would work. I haven't found this to
be the case. I tried to transfer a copy from the net install disk to the
sd but not all of the files will copy across.
I noticed that the netinstall disk has only .exe and .ini files for
starup.?????? (Windoze?)
Im stuck. Any help will be sincerely appreciated.
Gary R.
