[Grml] Can Grml tell (and repair) what Fedora did?

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Hubert Gabler

2009-04-27 08:53:42 UTC

Dear experts,

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?

Thankful for any help,
Hubert

Hubert Gabler

2009-04-27 08:53:42 UTC

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Hubert Gabler

2009-04-27 08:53:42 UTC

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Michael Prokop

2009-05-04 10:59:13 UTC

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Post by Hubert Gabler
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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Michael Prokop

2009-05-04 10:59:13 UTC

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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-
--
http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins
http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge
http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog
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Michael Prokop

2009-05-04 10:59:13 UTC

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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-
--
http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins
http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge
http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog
#grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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