4MLinux (maybe 36 series) hangs at bootup - 'The item KEYBOARD LAYOUT is being processed'

linustalman · 09-19-2021, 08:38 AM

Hi Zbigniew.

I'm running it in a VM on virt-man. It hangs at boot up at this line:

Code:

The item KEYBOARD LAYOUT is being processed

Previously, I had selected force shutdown in the virt-man settings. Maybe that broke something?

Do you know a fix?

Thanks.

zk1234 · 09-19-2021, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linustalman

Previously, I had selected force shutdown in the virt-man settings. Maybe that broke something?

Yes, that may be the reason.

Let's say that your "broken" 4MLinux is installed on the sda1 partition of the virtual disk:
1) boot using LiveCD (the 4MLinux ISO image),
2) commands to execute in the LiveCD terminal:

Code:

chroot /mnt/sda1
cp /var/4MLinux/*.xz /etc/init.d
exit
poweroff

3) now you can try to boot your 4MLinux.

.

linustalman · 09-20-2021, 04:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zk1234

Yes, that may be the reason.

Let's say that your "broken" 4MLinux is installed on the sda1 partition of the virtual disk:
1) boot using LiveCD (the 4MLinux ISO image),
2) commands to execute in the LiveCD terminal:

Code:

chroot /mnt/sda1
cp /var/4MLinux/*.xz /etc/init.d
exit
poweroff

3) now you can try to boot your 4MLinux.

.

I used the 4MLinux-36.0-64bit.0.iso.

No joy.

linustalman · 09-20-2021, 12:33 PM

Come to think of it, I think the VM version was v37 so I guess using the v36 live image would never have fixed it?

linustalman · 09-22-2021, 09:40 AM

In the end, I just copied a backup of my 4MLinux virtual machine image file to my PC. It boots again.

zk1234 · 09-22-2021, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linustalman

In the end, I just copied a backup of my 4MLinux virtual machine image file to my PC. It boots again.

.