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Subject: Re: Can't boot notebook at all anymore
From: Amichai Rotman <amichai () iglu ! org ! il>
Date: 2017-07-03 12:26:45
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Try following this guide to repair the boot process:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/226061/how-to-install-the-boot-repair-tool-in-an-ubuntu-live-disc
Amichai.
2017-06-24 9:53 GMT+03:00 MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz@gmail.com>:
> Before it was just a problem with the SSD. Now the notebook refuses
> to boot at all.
>
> It keeps coming up in busybox, but the more command doesn't wokr, or
> pieps don;t, so i can't peer through dmesg to see what's wrong.
>
> This is an ASUS N75SF that was running Xubuntu 16,04 just fine until
> this weekend. (Last weekend it worked perfectly. I even watched a
> couple of movies on it, Now it has gone completely defective.)
>
> It was saying it couldn't find /sbin/init, and the best advice I could
> find was to reinstall the OS, so I did that.
>
> Now it comes up in busybox and there do not appear to be any errors at all.
>
> Is it possible the motherboard just went wacko?
>
> I ran the disk test and everything seemed to be fine. I was able to
> mount the drive from a live CD boot, chroot and update-grub, and still
> no boot.
>
> After the reinstall, still no boot.
>
> It runs just fine from the live CD (actually a USB3 flash drive).
>
> The only change I can think of that might have impacted this was I
> changed the memory from 8GB to 16GB. The last time I ran the memory
> test, it passed.
>
> I really don't want to have to get another laptop and write off this
> one - it already cost me close to $500 I can't really afford to throw
> away, and don't want to.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Feeling VSF.
>
> MR
>
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<div dir="rtl"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small" dir="ltr">Try \
following this guide to repair the boot process:</div><div class="gmail_default" \
style="font-size:small" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" dir="ltr"><a \
href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/226061/how-to-install-the-boot-repair-tool-in-an \
-ubuntu-live-disc">https://askubuntu.com/questions/226061/how-to-install-the-boot-repair-tool-in-an-ubuntu-live-disc</a><br></div><div \
class="gmail_default" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" \
dir="ltr">Amichai.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">2017-06-24 9:53 GMT+03:00 MR ZenWiz <span \
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrzenwiz@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">mrzenwiz@gmail.com</a>></span>:</div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">Before it was just a problem with the SSD. Now the notebook \
refuses<br> to boot at all.<br>
<br>
It keeps coming up in busybox, but the more command doesn't wokr, or<br>
pieps don;t, so i can't peer through dmesg to see what's wrong.<br>
<br>
This is an ASUS N75SF that was running Xubuntu 16,04 just fine until<br>
this weekend. (Last weekend it worked perfectly. I even watched a<br>
couple of movies on it, Now it has gone completely defective.)<br>
<br>
It was saying it couldn't find /sbin/init, and the best advice I could<br>
find was to reinstall the OS, so I did that.<br>
<br>
Now it comes up in busybox and there do not appear to be any errors at all.<br>
<br>
Is it possible the motherboard just went wacko?<br>
<br>
I ran the disk test and everything seemed to be fine. I was able to<br>
mount the drive from a live CD boot, chroot and update-grub, and still<br>
no boot.<br>
<br>
After the reinstall, still no boot.<br>
<br>
It runs just fine from the live CD (actually a USB3 flash drive).<br>
<br>
The only change I can think of that might have impacted this was I<br>
changed the memory from 8GB to 16GB. The last time I ran the memory<br>
test, it passed.<br>
<br>
I really don't want to have to get another laptop and write off this<br>
one - it already cost me close to $500 I can't really afford to throw<br>
away, and don't want to.<br>
<br>
Suggestions?<br>
<br>
Feeling VSF.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
MR<br>
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