On 17/12/2025 13:13, Terry Coles wrote:
It takes a while to boot into Partition Magic, so I'll report back
when it has been done.
I've fixed it. This was a problem strewn with red herrings; Boot-repair
blamed sda1, but sda1 was clean. However, the disc is called sda, but
that is an efi partition which I don't use because this is a legacy
booting machine.
I used the SMART Extended Tests tool to prove to myself that the discs
were OK, but now know that those tests do not address file-system
problems. So I ran fsck, but that said that the discs were clean....
I then discovered the problem by accident. I ran apt update and found
some updates. While setting up the changes, apt upgrade threw up kernel
setup errors relating to the nVidia proprietary driver that I had been
offered some time ago. I removed the nVidia driver and everything built
fine.
I can now boot up properly, :-)
Thanks for all ideas and suggestions.
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