Hello all,
My son's system is hanging partway through the boot process. He had
PClinuxOS 2007 and did a funky process described here
(http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=54418)
but the gist of it is he used:
apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
until all packages were current. Everything seemed to be working fine
until he rebooted - then it wouldn't start X and dropped to CLI. I had
him execute "video" to check that his graphics adapter and screen
settings were correct - they were (he has an Intel 900 series). He
later noticed that for some strange reason Xorg wasn't installed and he
had to apt-get it manually. That seems to have gotten him further but
now it hangs during boot with the following:
determining kernel parameters
starting udev............
INIT runlevel 5
Somewhere along the way he also got a message like this:
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 410: 431 killed /sbin/start_udev
Now he can't even get to a CLI. We've tried safe mode and fiddling with
boot options. Option "init=3" causes a kernel panic, "acpi=off" and
"single" still fail at udev, and "noudev" doesn't help either. He says
he can't doesn't have an option to boot to the original kernel and the
appropriate initrd*.img and vmlinuz* don't seem to be in /boot anyway -
just the ones for the new kernel.
He has a dual-boot system and can still boot into Linux Mint if he needs
to edit .conf files or whatever on the PClinuxOS partition.
Thoughts? I've run him through everything I can think of, and since
he's across the continent I can't just sit down in front of it and
hammer it out.
Thank you,
Lisa