Bricked system help
by asarangan from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5DGT8)
I've been running slackware64-current without any problems. Today I did a slackpkg update. It upgraded to kernel 5.10.11, but the system won't boot anymore. Yes, I did run mkinitrd and lilo after the update.
This is what I did after the update:
mkinitrd -c -m ext4
lilo -v (no errors came up - I am using the huge kernel)
Upon boot, it says "BIOS data check successful" and then reboots itself repeatedly.
I booted the machine using a USB flash drive. Everything goes fine with that. Then I mounted my old partition (which is /dev/sda2) as /mnt. I also mounted /boot partition (which is /dev/sda1) under /mnt/boot. Then I mounted the /proc /sys /run and /dev with mount --bind. Then I chroot. All looks good so far. Then I reran mkinitrd and then lilo. Everything seemed fine. No errors. But when I reboot, it hangs at the same place right after "BIOS data check successful".
Any ideas?
This is what I did after the update:
mkinitrd -c -m ext4
lilo -v (no errors came up - I am using the huge kernel)
Upon boot, it says "BIOS data check successful" and then reboots itself repeatedly.
I booted the machine using a USB flash drive. Everything goes fine with that. Then I mounted my old partition (which is /dev/sda2) as /mnt. I also mounted /boot partition (which is /dev/sda1) under /mnt/boot. Then I mounted the /proc /sys /run and /dev with mount --bind. Then I chroot. All looks good so far. Then I reran mkinitrd and then lilo. Everything seemed fine. No errors. But when I reboot, it hangs at the same place right after "BIOS data check successful".
Any ideas?