topic title: Unable to restart laptop
Posts: 177
rmcellig
Joined: 04 Mar 2014
#1
I installed the latest Antix 15 to a partition on my thinkpad T60. Every time I restart my laptop it hangs on the Thinkpad startup screen. I don't even get to the grub menu so I always have to do a hard reboot. Any ideas how I can resolve this issue?

I'm running Icewm.

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$ inxi -F
System:    Host: ANTIX15 Kernel: 4.0.5-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit) Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-V_386-full Killah P 30 June 2015
Machine:   System: LENOVO product: 200762U v: ThinkPad T60
           Mobo: LENOVO model: 200762U Bios: LENOVO v: 79ETE0WW (2.20 ) date: 12/07/2007
CPU:       Dual core Intel T2500 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2000 MHz 1: 1667 MHz 2: 1333 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV515/M54 [Mobility Radeon X1400]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x1024@60.02hz, 1280x1024@60.02hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV515 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.0.5-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: e1000e
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:15:58:7c:d8:9f
           Card-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC driver: ath5k
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:19:7d:13:ab:db
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2131.3GB (76.2% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: HTS541010G9SA00 size: 100.0GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdc model: DT_101_G2 size: 30.9GB
           ID-3: USB /dev/sdb model: My_Passport_07A8 size: 1000.2GB
           ID-4: USB /dev/sdd model: External size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 41G used: 3.6G (10%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.14GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0C mobo: 42.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2878
Info:      Processes: 172 Uptime: 11:09 Memory: 375.4/2019.2MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.25
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
it hangs on the Thinkpad startup screen. I don't even get to the grub menu
First thing I would check is correct time and date in the bios. I moved your thread because your description does not sound like a AntiX bug to me. But more of a hardware/bios setting issue instead.
Posts: 325
male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#3
Or,
the boot menu is by the entry GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 in the configuration file (/)etc(/)default(/)grub hidden.

Solution:
the Boot menu temporarily by pressing and holding the Shift ⇧ once Grub loading ... appears, make it visible.

Then comment out the entry #out