<font color="black"><font size="2"><font face="arial">Hi, Holger. Danke sehr für die Antwort. I do have more than 1 disk. Are you going to suggest installing Debian again on a different disk? I guess that's a possibility. <br>
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I made a change in the BIOS that I don't expect to do any good (the computer will wait 5 seconds now before detecting the hard disks). I don't think that will help, because the main disk must be working for it to go through the GRUB process. <br>
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Ha. I started up 7 times with no problem, but on the 8th try, it froze. A photo is attached. When the "S" appears I'm pretty sure it's above the word "ELF". <br>
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Well, I appreciate if you have any ideas. Bye for now. <br>
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Will<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org><br>
To: Will Stites <stitesww@netscape.net>; 612125 <612125@bugs.debian.org><br>
Sent: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 4:17 am<br>
Subject: Re: Bug#612125: Squeeze: bootup hangs after "Parsing ELF...."<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Hi Will, <br>
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thanks for your bug report! <br>
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On Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011, Will Stites wrote: <br>
> Often, but not always, the boot process hangs up. The last message written <br>
> to the console is <br>
> Decompressing Linux .... Parsing ELF .... <br>
> There is a quick-flashing cursor at the end of the line (maybe 4 flashes / <br>
> second). <br>
> The only way to regain control of the system is to turn off the power. <br>
> Sometimes a capital "S" shows on the line above that one, something like <br>
> this: S <br>
> Decompressing Linux .... Parsing ELF .... <br>
> I'm not sure of the exact position of the S. Also I'm not sure if I have <br>
> the right capitalization, or number of dots or spaces. <br>
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maybe you can take a screenshot with a camera? <br>
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> I have had some instances of the boot process hanging up at a later stage, <br>
> but usually it is at this stage. <br>
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> This could be a problem with my hardware. I don't know how to tell if that <br>
> might be the case. <br>
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do you have more than one disk? <br>
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cheers, <br>
Holger <br>
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