[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#612125: Squeeze: bootup hangs after "Parsing ELF...."

[Will Stites]

Hi, Holger. Danke sehr für die Antwort. I do have more than 1 disk. Are you going to suggest installing Debian again on a different disk? I guess that's a possibility. 

I made a change in the BIOS that I don't expect to do any good (the computer will wait 5 seconds now before detecting the hard disks). I don't think that will help, because the main disk must be working for it to go through the GRUB process. 

Ha. I started up 7 times with no problem, but on the 8th try, it froze. A photo is attached. When the "S" appears I'm pretty sure it's above the word "ELF". 

Well, I appreciate if you have any ideas. Bye for now. 

Will
 



-----Original Message-----
From: Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>
To: Will Stites <stitesww at netscape.net>; 612125 <612125 at bugs.debian.org>
Sent: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 4:17 am
Subject: Re: Bug#612125: Squeeze: bootup hangs after "Parsing ELF...."

 
 
 
Hi Will, 
 
thanks for your bug report! 
 
On Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011, Will Stites wrote: 
> Often, but not always, the boot process hangs up. The last message written 
> to the console is 
> Decompressing Linux ....  Parsing ELF .... 
> There is a quick-flashing cursor at the end of the line (maybe 4 flashes / 
> second). 
> The only way to regain control of the system is to turn off the power. 
> Sometimes a capital "S" shows on the line above that one, something like 
> this: S 
> Decompressing Linux ....  Parsing ELF .... 
> I'm not sure of the exact position of the S. Also I'm not sure if I have 
> the right capitalization, or number of dots or spaces. 
 
maybe you can take a screenshot with a camera? 
 
> I have had some instances of the boot process hanging up at a later stage, 
> but usually it is at this stage. 
> 
> This could be a problem with my hardware. I don't know how to tell if that 
> might be the case. 
 
do you have more than one disk? 
 
 
cheers, 
	Holger 
 
 

  

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