Bug 29633

(In reply to Barry Jackson from comment #0)
> (using the Mga7 i586 net-installer
> image as the Mga8 i586 one fails to run stage 2)

Is there a bug issued for that failure?



> When running a LIVE Mga8 on the same hardware it works fine, but this is
> using an earlier kernel. Current in use is 5-10-75-desktop-1.mga8

Please attach a compressed journal output of system booting with the new kernel.


If you install the release kernel, does it work?

CC: (none) => fri

(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #1)
> (In reply to Barry Jackson from comment #0)
> > (using the Mga7 i586 net-installer
> > image as the Mga8 i586 one fails to run stage 2)
> 
> Is there a bug issued for that failure?
> 
No not from me yet. After the text boot screen the USB drive flashes for about a second as though it is loading stage two then it just hangs. Same with the Mga8 xfce i586 iso.

> 
> 
> > When running a LIVE Mga8 on the same hardware it works fine, but this is
> > using an earlier kernel. Current in use is 5-10-75-desktop-1.mga8
> 
> Please attach a compressed journal output of system booting with the new
> kernel.
>

Sorry too late now as I am desperate to get this running for a friend in hospital.

I am re-installing with Mga7 to see if that works - the machine did have Mga6 on it working fine, but rather than try to do two upgrades it seemed safer to just install Mga8 clean :\ wrong!

If Mga7 works I will have that kernel to fall back to, if indeed it is a kernel issue.

> 
> If you install the release kernel, does it work?

You lost me ;) This was a net-install, so the it has (had) the latest release kernel.

Sorry this is not ideal as a bug report but I need to get this set up and running today.

I know how it is to need to get things going ;)


One way to get mga8 on it rather quick would be to boot the mga8 Live system and let it self-install to disk.

If you update it after that you will have both old and new kernel, and can choose more freely if and how you want to experiment.

(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #3)
> I know how it is to need to get things going ;)
> 
> 
> One way to get mga8 on it rather quick would be to boot the mga8 Live system
> and let it self-install to disk.

I already tried that when the net-install iso would not boot, but that also was not a success and just now I forget what the issue was. 

> 
> If you update it after that you will have both old and new kernel, and can
> choose more freely if and how you want to experiment.

I installed Mga7 and hit the same wifi issue. I then remembered about rfkill.
'rfkill unblock all' allowed the wifi to work, so i am now upgrading it to Mga8.

There is another issue just after grub hands over to the initrd where the system hangs with a black screen. CTRL/F2 + CTRL/F1 allows it to switch to plymouth and continue boot. All very strange, but for now I think this one can be closed.

Thanks for your help. 

Closing invalid.

Resolution: (none) => INVALID
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

OK

If AMD GPU, you could check if it is this your lappy runs into:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_8_Errata#AMD.2FATI

Thanks Morgan but it is Intel.
I ran quickly down that long list and did see one that applies - odd graphic effects as graphical desktop starts - but it soon stabilizes.
It now continues boot after login if CTRL and ALT are held down for a few moments until the cursor shape changes on the screen, the plymouth bubbles then appear and activity continues.
Another strange thing is that although this is not UEFI, I found a /boot/EFI/EFI/mageia directory, it was empty and I deleted all from the first EFI with no change to the boot.
I won't have the machine after tomorrow as it's going to a fellow Mageia user in hospital to give him some relief from the boredom!
Cheers,
Barry