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.
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Harry Prevor
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