[Grml] Can Grml tell (and repair) what Fedora did?
Michael Prokop
mika at grml.org
Mon May 4 12:59:13 CEST 2009
* Hubert Gabler <loipersb at aon.at> [20090427 10:54]:
> I have a mini-notebook Acer One with Linpus Lite installed. Playing
> around with this nice little toy I successfully installed Ubuntu 9.04
> (replacing Linpus) and on USB-sticks Debian Live and grml 2008.11-rc1.
> Everything worked perfectly.
> Then I wanted to install Fedora 10, which semmed to take more time than
> expected and so I left the Acer unattended over night. Next day the
> display was frozen and I tried to reboot with the Grml-USB-Stick.
> Booting stopped quite soon, telling me "This grml image failed to boot"
> and "No supported filesystem images found at /live". Then came the
> prompt (initramfs).
> Hopefully I tried the (previoulsy working) Debian Live Stick. Same
> thing, booting stops at (initramfs).
> Now I decided to start from scratch and made a new setup with Acer's
> recovery disk. System works fine, but Grml and Debian Live still end
> booting with those error messages.
> Can it be that the unsuccessfull Fedora installation damaged for
> instance the buit-in RAM or did other nasty things? Can I find out with
> help of Ubuntu or Grml 1.1 (works both from CDROM and from a USB-stick)
> what is the reason and how to return to the original state?
If Linpus Lite works but Fedora/Debian/Grml/... don't it shouldn't
be a problem with RAM, though running memtest won't hurt. :)
Check whether the IDE/SATA configuration in BIOS got changed, looks
like a change from AHCI to IDE mode (or something like that) or the
other way arround for me.
regards,
-mika-
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