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Damacustas

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Registered: 2014-04-27

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] Freeze in early boot

Hey everyone,

This morning I attempted to boot my computer but for some reason it freezes right after grub has loaded Linux. The only output I get is:

[0.000000] [Firmware Bug]: AMD-Vi: IOAPIC[130] not in IVRS table
[0.000000] AMD-Vi: Disabling interrupt remapping
Starting version 238
/dev/nvme0n1p2: clean, 1176602/20971520 files, 32727522/83886080 blocks
[5.773065] sp5100-tco sp5100-tco: Watchdog hardware is disabled
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I have attempted booting using the fallback option and arch-chroot'ing into the filesystem to install any package updates and run mkinitcpio -p linux. Unfortunately, both to no avail.
My windows 10 installation starts up fine, making me thing this is a software issue and not a hardware issue.

Since this problem happens so early during boot I do not really know how to proceed.

Last edited by Damacustas (2018-06-30 21:23:52)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Freeze in early boot

Was this the first boot after a package update or config change?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Freeze in early boot

First determine the nature of the "freeze", avoid the graphical.target, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … _boot_into (maybe also try "nomodeset") and also remove the "quiet" parameter and add more and earlier output: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ge … bug_output
Also be sure to https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/418 … -10-a.html

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Damacustas

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Registered: 2014-04-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Freeze in early boot

Ultimately it turned out to be a hardware issue. I have two graphics cards in my machine that I swapped places. One did not connect good enough in the PCIe port.
When starting to the multi-user target as seth suggested, I encountered no problem. I ran nvidia-smi to check on the status of both GPUs and I got the error message that something wasn't right with PCIe connection to one of the graphics cards. I shut down, took one out, booted up and started the graphical target and everything ran fine.

Thank you both for the suggestions!

EDIT: Because the monitors were added to the other GPU, that was not extracted, Windows was working fine.

Last edited by Damacustas (2018-06-30 21:24:59)