Will no longer boot up
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- Black ninja
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Will no longer boot up
Hi, I've got Porteus with KDE desktop. I originally set it up with root login without a password. It worked fine for approximately two years.Suddenly it shows a new rectangular login screen that I've never seen before "Welcome to Linux at Porteus".I type in root as username and toor as password. The login screen comes back empty. Help!
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Re: Will no longer boot up
Try rc2 See if any different.
Linux porteus 4.4.0-porteus #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 07:01:55 UTC 2016 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB
Re: Will no longer boot up
have you changed video driver ,that seem,the noveau hang the system,but i am wrong,if you do not use it.
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Re: Will no longer boot up
@ meisthfox
Seems to be similar to this one.
Re: Messed up my 64bit logins after an unclean boot/shutdown (Post by surio #14596)
There might be no "simple" way to solve this.
Seems to be similar to this one.
Re: Messed up my 64bit logins after an unclean boot/shutdown (Post by surio #14596)
There might be no "simple" way to solve this.
Re: Will no longer boot up
hi, you can check if this is like donald says,boot in fresh mode without changes and see if you can boot system.
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Re: Will no longer boot up
Yes it does boot in fresh mode ..... Does rc2 equal fresh mode ? And no, I've not changed the video driver.
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Re: Will no longer boot up
Sorry, if you have been misled. rc2 is freshest version of Porteus distro.meisthfox wrote:Does rc2 equal fresh mode ?
Linux porteus 4.4.0-porteus #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 07:01:55 UTC 2016 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB
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Re: Will no longer boot up
meisthfox, if you have NVIDIA video card you can try this driver for Porteus-v3.2 rc2 x86_64 (kernel version 4.5.3)
nVidia-340.96-porteus-v3.2rc2-x86_64.xzm
nVidia-340.96-porteus-v3.2rc2-x86_64.xzm
Linux 6.6.11-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Jan 14 12:07:37 MSK 2024 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
MS-7A12 » [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600] [1002:73ff] (rev c7) » Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 K2 3200MHz C16
MS-7A12 » [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600] [1002:73ff] (rev c7) » Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 K2 3200MHz C16
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Re: Will no longer boot up
I don't know if it makes any difference but I forgot to mention that my Porteus OS is on a USB stick.
Re: Will no longer boot up
hi, if you have an usb key with fat 32 file system the changes dat is corrupted, seem not shure about this,maybe you have to do a package with the changes folder so you can restore the old changes,you have to make a clean installation do your changes and use the script that make a xzm of your last changes.
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Re: Will no longer boot up
A bit much for this novice...Are there any kind of instructions available to do that? Otherwise I think I'll just have to bite the bullet And do a new installation with the latest version And redo all the customization I want.
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Re: Will no longer boot up
Fresh mode is one o the boot options when you reach the boot menu. It simply doesn't load all of the extras and changes. If you savefile.dat is corrupted then the easiest thing to do is start again and this time don't use a savefile.dat. Format your USB with a linux file system and avoid the heartache. If you do this, the changes will be stored in a folder and not a file container.
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Re: Will no longer boot up
How do I format my USB with a linux file system ? Are instructions on the main Porteus website?
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Re: Will no longer boot up
Linux porteus 4.4.0-porteus #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 07:01:55 UTC 2016 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB