CrunchBang Linux

John.L

Member

From: Georgia, U.S.

Registered: 2010-06-08

Posts: 16

The Blinking Underscore of Death

Once I install, md5sum verified, crunchbang-10-alpha-01-openbox-i686.iso
and am asked to remove any external devices, in my case... I tried both
CD-ROM and USB Drive, it then restarts and starts to boot. And then,
nothing. Just a black screen and a blinking underscore... of death.

Here are my system specs:
HP Pavilion DV6xxx Series (Entertainment Series)
250GB Hard Drive
4GB RAM
Intel Centrino (Inside) Processor
Anything else you would like to know?

EDIT: Found out that if I select "Guided - use entire disk and set up
LVM," and select "Separate /home partition," then this is when I will get
the error. But if I select the defaults, everything works correctly.

When I run the "single-user" mode from GRUB boot to see where it is
stalling at, it seems to hang up around the internet part, starting services... but have tried different things and still hangs up there.

Any thoughts?

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John L.

safetycopy

urban legend

From: The Chatsubo

Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 1,311

Re: The Blinking Underscore of Death

^ I often have problems around that area, usually with a message about Bluetooth (which I don't have). Do you have a USB NIC? If so, try disconnecting that.

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i wonder if i missed the warning
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John.L

Member

From: Georgia, U.S.

Registered: 2010-06-08

Posts: 16

Re: The Blinking Underscore of Death

^ I often have problems around that area, usually with a message about Bluetooth (which I don't have). Do you have a USB NIC? If so, try disconnecting that.

As I recall, I believe mine gets the Bluetooth message to, then stalls.

No, no USB NIC is connected.

Last edited by John.L (2010-06-10 19:45:10)

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John L.

mig5

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2010-06-07

Posts: 9

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Re: The Blinking Underscore of Death

I also experienced this with choosing encrypted LVM partitions. I ended up reinstalling without LVM after finding no solution. The last thing I tried was run in single-user-mode and saw that the boot process seemed to hang when 'initialising the filesystem' or somesuch.

Last edited by mig5 (2010-06-14 23:35:42)

kerom

New Member

Registered: 2010-06-15

Posts: 4

Re: The Blinking Underscore of Death

I also experienced this when trying to install with LVM, using encryption or not. Only way I was able to have it boot past grub is to use regular disk partitioning.

When using encryption, I did get past the underscore though... It displayed missing component lvm and e2... So when installing grub from the liveCD, being chrooted into the installed system, I tried to install lvm2 and e2fsprogs, but still no success.

I did not, however, go into great depths investigating this, trying different configs, etc.

mig5

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2010-06-07

Posts: 9

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Re: The Blinking Underscore of Death

I'd be interested in finding out whether this is Statler specific or a problem present in Squeeze already. I'll fire up a VM to find out.

Edit: I found with the latest daily squeeze netinstall, both LVM and encrypted LVM installs work fine.. so this may either be a problem with Statler itself, or with the version of Squeeze bundled with Statler at the time of its last published .iso release..

Last edited by mig5 (2010-06-16 12:49:52)