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edit doktor5000: thread has been split from viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8569

I'm having problems with a fresh install of M4 and booting also. A cold boot will not succeed with the latest kernel. The only way I can get the latest kernel to boot is to try a tty terminal (Ctrl + Alt +2) and do a ctrl + alt + del.

The original kernel boots ok.

Original kernel is 12.8
Latest Kernel I have is 14.18

Seems I'm a member of a club here!

Seán

This thread is not about a fresh install, and as you can see the OP can't boot any kernel at all, due to corrupt initrd images, it seems from the error messages.

Please create a separate thread for your issue, and provide some log excerpts. Also 3.14.18 kernel is an update candidate, why did you install that?

doktor5000 wrote:This thread is not about a fresh install, and as you can see the OP can't boot any kernel at all, due to corrupt initrd images, it seems from the error messages.

I have no problem with the install. The problem occurred after the update.

doktor5000 wrote:Please create a separate thread for your issue, and provide some log excerpts. Also 3.14.18 kernel is an update candidate, why did you install that?

The 3.14.18 kernel was on the Mageia-4-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso image I had. It isn't obvious from its name that its anything other than Mageia 4 install iso.

When you go to http://www.mageia.org/ you get the following message:

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Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403
http://www.mageia.org
Apache/2.2.23 (Mageia/PREFORK-1.mga1)
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No doubt more to follow!

Seán

seanmacsuibhne wrote:The original kernel boots ok.

Original kernel is 12.8
Latest Kernel I have is 14.18

So in your first post you mention the original kernel is 3.12.8. Then you mention the latest 3.14.18 came from the LiveDVD.

seanmacsuibhne wrote:
doktor5000 wrote:Also 3.14.18 kernel is an update candidate, why did you install that?

The 3.14.18 kernel was on the Mageia-4-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso image I had.

Would be interesting to know where you got the image from. The current Mageia 4.1 image has 3.12.21:

Code: Select all: ┌─[doktor5000@Mageia4]─[17:09:13]─[~] └──╼ wget -O - ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/mageia/iso/4.1/Mageia-4.1-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-4.1-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.lst 2>/dev/null | grep ^kernel kernel-desktop-3.12.21-2.mga4-1-1.mga4 kernel-desktop-latest-3.12.21-2.mga4 kernel-firmware-20131013-2.mga4 kernel-firmware-nonfree-20140119-1.mga4.nonfree

The older Mageia 4 images have 3.12.8:

Code: Select all: ┌─[doktor5000@Mageia4]─[17:09:23]─[~] └──╼ wget -O - ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/mageia/iso/4/Mageia-4-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD/Mageia-4-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.lst 2>/dev/null | grep ^kernelkernel-desktop-3.12.8-2.mga4-1-1.mga4 kernel-desktop-latest-3.12.8-2.mga4 kernel-firmware-20131013-2.mga4 kernel-firmware-nonfree-20140119-1.mga4.nonfree

Anyways, doesn't matter. You mentioned previously:

A cold boot will not succeed with the latest kernel. The only way I can get the latest kernel to boot is to try a tty terminal (Ctrl + Alt +2) and do a ctrl + alt + del.

How far does the kernel boot? Also, at which point do you switch to a tty and press Ctrl+Alt+Del, and how does that help?

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