Mageia 3 won't boot, triple boot, no recovery mode

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Mageia 3 won't boot, triple boot, no recovery mode

Postby linux_dreams » Aug 12th, '13, 04:19

Hi,
I've installed Mageia 3 (64bits version) over some partition of my hard disk. Since I could not boot ubuntu anymore (for a moment I triple booted Windows XP, Ubuntu 12.04 and Mageia 3), I decided to delete my ubuntu partition and create a new one and install Ubuntu 12.04 on it.
Ever since I have done that, I can't boot Mageia 3 anymore. I can still access to my files in the Mageia 3 partition but I can't boot the OS anymore.
When I reboot, grub appears and the last 2 lines are "Mageia 3 (3)" and "Mageia 3 (3)" and both leads to the same "error" message. So there's not even a recovery mode for Mageia 3.
The error message I get when trying to boot any of these 2 Mageia 3 (3) is:
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Display driver issue
The display driver currently requires you to use 'noKmsboot' boot option to prevent the KMS driver of the kernel from being loaded into the boot process. Startup of the X server may now fail as that option was not specified.
OK.

Then I can't do anything. I have a commandline that I get no response whatever I write in. So I have to manually push on the reset button of my computer to reboot.
I've seen a similar error message in this forum from 2012 for Mageia 1 I believe, but the thread remained unsolved (the guy reinstalled Mageia from scractch to overcome the problem and the answers given to him didn't work).
I would like any help to boot Mageia 3 again. Thank you in advance!
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Re: Mageia 3 won't boot, triple boot, no recovery mode

Postby doktor5000 » Aug 12th, '13, 21:01

Have you tried what the message tells you?

In Grub bootmenu press F6 then select -> Default and then append nokmsboot in the input line that appears.

Also, does Mageia boot in Failsafe mode?
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Re: Mageia 3 won't boot, triple boot, no recovery mode

Postby linux_dreams » Aug 13th, '13, 01:23

doktor5000 wrote:Have you tried what the message tells you?

In Grub bootmenu press F6 then select -> Default and then append nokmsboot in the input line that appears.

Also, does Mageia boot in Failsafe mode?

I thank you for your reply. No I have not tried that. Instead, I've passed the whole day almost non stop trying to fix this problem with 2 guys. We even did teamviewer (in Ubuntu) so they could get the control of my pc, but with no luck. Basically they installed Archbang (apparently a fork of Arch Linux) over my mageia 3 partition (and the triple boot works fine).
Therefore I don't want anyone else trying to fix this problem for now, as I am not affected anymore. But I guess I can't write the thread as [SOLVED] because I am not sure it would have worked.
Thank you.
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Re: Mageia 3 won't boot, triple boot, no recovery mode

Postby doktor5000 » Aug 13th, '13, 20:56

linux_dreams wrote:Therefore I don't want anyone else trying to fix this problem for now, as I am not affected anymore. But I guess I can't write the thread as [SOLVED] because I am not sure it would have worked.
Thank you.


Well, just mark it as [DONE] then. You can do this by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks

And have fun with Archbang :D
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