Big Problems with Booting ! Freeze on Loading Screen

pillemats

hey there

i have a new lenovo think centre tiny m92p with an internel 2tb hdd and the sytsem to boot on my usb stick external.

now is the problem that it wont start up the system !

sometimes it works but the many time it will not.....

if i put off the internal hdd it will works. the same problem is when i put the hdd to usb converter....

can anyone help me ?

Pho3nX

Verify your External HDD, there maybe some Dead Sectors or corrupted files. Check your HDD with HD Tune (SMART / Health) and do a CHKDSK
Remove all unused files in the root HDD (executables, files from others system/OS)

nadenislamarre

when it doesn't boot, what happend ?
if you press ctrl+alt+f3 (or f2, not sure), do you get a message ?

pillemats

nadenislamarre

the problem is now still be there.... it wont boot.... it freezes on loading screen
somtimes it will boot but very rare

if i press ctrl+alt+f3 it will runs very fast any writing over the screen. that it was... then the loading screen

pillemats

i have tryed some things... but nothing works.
now i formatted the hdd an want to install it directly. is it possible ?
with 2 partitions ?

nadenislamarre

just install the hdd as you have installed the usb key.
can you edit grub.conf (present 2 times, in boot/grub and efi) and remove "console=tty3 quiet loglevel=0" to see errors on the screen.

pillemats

nadenislamarre

i have tryed this now i i dont know what happend....

the last 10 times booting it still works..... very curios

pillemats

I was looking forward to early
Now it does not work anymore. It was apparently just a coincidence
He shows me but only the loading screen

nadenislamarre

my guess is that you've a badly supported computer, ie an unstable loaded driver and you finally get a kernel panic. it may happend, but found the causing driver is not always easy.
ctrl+alt+f3 should work once crashed ; moreover, when kernel panic happend, keyboard leds are blinking;

pillemats

the leds are not blinking..... i have the lenovo m92p and in another post here a user have the same an his works so i think it is another problem....

if it is an driver problem i think the problem is ever there but in my case it works sometimes but not always

what can i do ? maybe an bios reset ?

nadenislamarre

we must found at which step it stops.
do you know how to edit these scripts ?

for example,
edit /etc/init.d/rcS
and add just around "$i start"

    # No sh extension, so fork subprocess.
       echo "starting $i" >> /recalbox/share/boot.log
    $i start
       echo "starting $i done" >> /recalbox/share/boot.log
    ;;

then, save your overlay (see the wiki), reboot, wait during the freeze.
open your key, and check the boot.log file.

pillemats

ok i will try that

pillemats

i have tryed but if i want to overwrite the file

it comes

rm /etc/init.d/rcS: received failure with description 'Read-only file system'

i have tryed to set the rights to 777 but it works not too

pillemats

I observed that the System mostly Starts if i put out the ethernet cable

nadenislamarre

mount -o remount,rw /
then edit
then save the overlay

see https://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/wiki/doku.php?id=en:modify_the_system_while_it_s_running

pillemats

Ok i will Try it but before i try another hdd Because i observed that the hdd with USB convertor on my Notebook sometimes Not works too. I Hope the Problem is only the hdd

pillemats

it dont work

after reboot the file is the same as before editing

is it right ?

#!/bin/sh

Start all init scripts in /etc/init.d

executing them in numerical order.

#
for i in /etc/init.d/S??* ;do

 # Ignore dangling symlinks (if any).
 [ ! -f "$i" ] && continue

 case "$i" in
*.sh)
    # Source shell script for speed.
    (
	trap - INT QUIT TSTP
	set start
	. $i
    )
    ;;
*)
    # No sh extension, so fork subprocess.
    echo "starting $i" >> /recalbox/share/boot.log
$i start
   echo "starting $i done" >> /recalbox/share/boot.log
    ;;
esac

done

nadenislamarre

@pillemats it's because you didn't save the overlay.

pillemats

i delete the olde file..... and have copied the new one....

nadenislamarre

you must call the save overlay script as written in the wiki.
batocera system is like a firmware. when you modify the files, it's done in memory only.
you must save an overlay to apply it on reboot.