Hello,

In the last several weeks I have been unable to boot up Antix in just the first try. Usually it runs to:

/dev to be fully populated...

and then the screen blanks out and remains that way for a long time. So I just turn it off and start it again.

I have to do this 4-6 times before the system finally gets past that message and boots up normally.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Pedro

Any suggestions?

1st thing I would try. Make sure the gear is dust free < I have a air compressor so this is easy peasy for me >

Then. I would boot a live session with my antix cd and
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on the funky drive in question.

Then fire the bad girl up and see if she behaves better then.

Roky,

Thanks. I'll try the gparted suggestion. I forgot to mention that I have windows 10 as dual boot (on the same drive; diff partition) and that has no problem booting up.

I've tried Gparted several times and the problem still persists. Sometimes it takes more than 6 times before it boots. Windows on the same drive does not have this problem (different partition).

Once Antix boots up, it runs normally. This is quite frustrating (time consuming also). Any suggestions??

thanks.

Pedro

I'm kinda stumped Pedro.

Maybe look through /var/logs or dmseg?

It might save time to just backup movies, music, skins, themes, etc.............. to a external usb drive and just do a reinstall.

I have a 1TB external usb drive holding certain files in case I decide to upgrade to AntiX 16 from any poof my older
testing installs on my other gear.

Ok. thanks for the suggestions. I hope I can fix this. Not really ready to spend the time reinstalling all the stuff I've put in already.

I had a problem that presented similarly to this one caused by the nvidiafb.

what hardware are you running, post output of inxi -F or inxi -G and dmesg | tail immediately after a boot. __{{emoticon}}__