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#1 2012-07-03 21:59:24
- aintemail-al
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[solved] Suspect boot message
When booting, after the "INIT: version" line there are four strange lines (see the img).
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/v … directlink
Is everything alright?
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#2 2012-07-03 22:29:47
- nomorewindows
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Re: [solved] Suspect boot message
Your harddrive is indicating a soft reset. also, possibly your harddrive is having data corruption.
May need smartmontools to see if this might be the case.
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
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#3 2012-07-04 06:54:58
- aintemail-al
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Re: [solved] Suspect boot message
Thanks a lot, better an error than a virus or something like that.
Interesting package smartmontools. The first selftest indicates no error, will see if smartd finds somethink wrong on boot.
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#4 2012-07-04 07:50:24
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Re: [solved] Suspect boot message
I am also experiencing this. But only with the proprietary driver (Nvidia), which doesn't have KMS support. With the open source driver (Nouveau, in my case) I still experience it, but only for a second, until KMS kicks in. Enabling early start does away with it completely.
It's not a virus. I think it's either a bug in the framebuffer or we don't have a proper rc.conf/inittab.
Also:
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
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#5 2012-07-04 13:02:31
- aintemail-al
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Re: [solved] Suspect boot message
I am also experiencing this. But only with the proprietary driver (Nvidia), which doesn't have KMS support. With the open source driver (Nouveau, in my case) I still experience it, but only for a second, until KMS kicks in. Enabling early start does away with it completely.
It does the trick. Mkinitcpio the kernel plunging the radeon driver blows the strange letters. Thanks.
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#6 2012-07-04 14:06:31
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Re: [solved] Suspect boot message
Edit your initial post, and add [solved] to the title line.
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
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