[SOLVED] Cannot boot Slackware 14.2 on external USB SSD
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With CTRL-ALT-F2 you jump from X (in level 4) to level 3; when in level 3 ALT-F1/2/3/4 switches between terminals and ALT-F7 brings you back to X (level 4).
Freezes with CTRL-ALT-F2 suggest thus that you are in level 4, after startx in level 3.
These kind of freezes (As if the keyboard lost contact with the rest..) I have noticed in the past but I cannot remember what I've done to get rid of them.
Maybe go down to a more tested/stable kernel version, such as 4.13.16 being the latest update on Dave Spencer's dusk.idlemoor repository
I don't know what graphics you have but the intel-stuff (i915) is not without errors in kernel 4.14.2
I normally remove xscreensaver as that somehow always bothers me, but whether this is a culprit I cannot tell;
With CTRL-ALT-F2 you jump from X (in level 4) to level 3; when in level 3 ALT-F1/2/3/4 switches between terminals and ALT-F7 brings you back to X (level 4).
Freezes with CTRL-ALT-F2 suggest thus that you are in level 4, after startx in level 3.
Immediately after boot (text mode login), the runlevel command always answers "3", which is the configured runlevel. When CTRL-ALT-F2 freezes the system, X is not involved yet. The second kind of freeze I observe is different : After telinit 4 I can work in my Xfce session for a few hours without any problems (CTRL-ALT-Fx does just work, as everything else) and suddenly, the system freezes. I believe this second kind of freeze is different, and this time X might be the culprit. Well, at least it is a suspect.
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Originally Posted by brobr
These kind of freezes (As if the keyboard lost contact with the rest..) I have noticed in the past but I cannot remember what I've done to get rid of them.
Too bad
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Originally Posted by brobr
Maybe go down to a more tested/stable kernel version, such as 4.13.16 being the latest update on Dave Spencer's dusk.idlemoor repository
I don't know what graphics you have but the intel-stuff (i915) is not without errors in kernel 4.14.2
Intel Iris stuff, yes. I will continue to investigate. Trying another kernel is a good idea.
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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859
I think the initrd.gz needs to be copied to the ./EFI/Boot/
Indeed, but that is already done
Anyway, I was asking help to solve a boot issue, and this issue is obviously solved. Thanks everyone !
When you boot from external USB hard drive, may happen that the storage devices to be slow to appear, so the init script (from initrd) should wait a bit for them.
I for one, I use with great success a wait time of 5 seconds, which means adding "-w 5" to the mkinitrd command line.
And, of course, the persistent naming is a must - both on initrd and /etc/fstab .
Last edited by LuckyCyborg; 07-08-2021 at 02:22 PM.
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