System freezes during boot-up when using kernel 4.1 or later
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System freezes during boot-up when using kernel 4.1 or later
I am running Debian "testing" release (64 bit) on a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012. I regularly run "apt-get dist-upgrade" to keep my software current. System and software are working fine EXCEPT that I must select a previous version of the kernel (4.0.0-2-amd64) in GRUB in order to boot fully to the login screen. When I try to boot using 4.1 or 4.2, the last boot message I get is the result of fsck (clean). Shortly later the screen flickers and the message font changes (as in normal boot-up), so presumably the video driver has loaded successfully (???) but the system freezes at this point.
I'm a non-technical user, but can type terminal commands and edit settings files like a trained seal if given specific instructions
Did you try passing nomodeset to the kernel?
Next thing I'd do is booting with some live CD and looking at /var/log/dmesg, there may be hints what's going wrong.
Silvanus's freeze upon finishing boot-up looks the same as the one I've had on the same machine. Systems freezes with any kernels 4.1 to 4.3x, on Arch linux.
Note that `nomodeset`, noacpi and lots of cheatcodes (all I knew and more) hasn't the slightest effect.
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