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Re: boot error

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 12:40 am
by bcreighton
Can I use snapshot, then MX Linux USB Maker, and just do a fresh install to solve this problem?

Re: boot error

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 3:45 am
by Eadwine Rose
If your system itself is faulty you will be taking that along in the snapshot, and the consequent install.

Re: boot error

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:11 am
by bcreighton
But, it seems to boot and work fine when I use a MX Linux made USB copy?

Re: boot error

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:21 am
by j2mcgreg
bcreighton wrote: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:11 am But, it seems to boot and work fine when I use a MX Linux made USB copy?
But you will only really know through use.

Re: boot error

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:22 am
by bcreighton
"In Linux, newer isn't always better. The best solution is the one that works." Amen.

Guess there is only 1 way to find out.

Re: boot error

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 1:04 pm
by bcreighton
OK, tried new install from MX Linux USB. Exact same error. Rebooted into usb live, ran gparted, checked partitions. Main partition was fine. The fat 32 partition succeeded, no errors, but when it tried to grow file system to fill the partition using libparted, it threw an error with no additional information.

Am I at an end? Should I just do a fresh install?

Re: boot error

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:42 am
by bcreighton
Yea, fresh install, same result. Installed graphic card's codecs, no dice. Think thats it. Odd, the same OS runs off my USB stick without a hitch. Can't figure that one out, but I give up

Re: boot error

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 11:12 am
by j2mcgreg
bcreighton wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:42 am Yea, fresh install, same result. Installed graphic card's codecs, no dice. Think thats it. Odd, the same OS runs off my USB stick without a hitch. Can't figure that one out, but I give up
The MX Live system runs in ram only which is why it seems to work. But when you try to access the HDD, it crashes so it seems obvious that the HDD is the problem.

Re: boot error

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 12:18 pm
by Minnie the Moocher
@bcreighton

Nope, they're not related to any hdd / ssd issues, nothing to worry, even ignorable.

A Bios update might solve such issues when available. Or:
Kermit the Frog wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 8:14 am
oliverjames wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 5:25 am... a number of ACPI error messages ...
... you can add

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loglevel=3
in kernel parameters box in "MX Boot Options".

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt wrote:

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	loglevel=	[KNL,EARLY]
			All Kernel Messages with a loglevel smaller than the
			console loglevel will be printed to the console. It can
			also be changed with klogd or other programs. The
			loglevels are defined as follows:

			0 (KERN_EMERG)		system is unusable
			1 (KERN_ALERT)		action must be taken immediately
			2 (KERN_CRIT)		critical conditions
			3 (KERN_ERR)		error conditions
			4 (KERN_WARNING)	warning conditions
			5 (KERN_NOTICE)		normal but significant condition
			6 (KERN_INFO)		informational
			7 (KERN_DEBUG)		debug-level messages
i.e. loglevel=0 will print emergency messages only (when system is about to crash or is unstable).

In fact quiet is the equivalent of loglevel=4 that's why the system lets the "warning" messages be printed. By the way, no matter you use loglevel 3 or less they're still recorded in log files (in case one needs to search/inquire something). You can also change the splash to nosplash if you prefer the flowing text (like me) but you don't have to.
You can also try (add) the:

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intremap=off
parameter.

Re: boot error

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2025 1:22 pm
by Heliosstyx
In my opinion your hard-disk will be dead soon. I had the same troubles under Fedora 40: freeze, boot error etc. : the reason was my hard-disk had reached its end of life. Replace your hard-disk with an SSD and your troubles will fly away.