F15 not boot anymore !

[tantan]

thinkpad g40.
Last thing I remember I did was close the lid of laptop before going out.
X never resumes (as always), and had to hard-reset (this, a LXDE issue, AFAIK).
Now there is this shiny, blinky cursor greeting at me, with a black, black blackscreen on the background.(!!)
I have a RIP linux on hand, as part of a recovery disc for windows troubleshoot, but the only use I know of it (for linux) is to make sure the drives and its files are OK, in good state. But I cannot revert this system to the last working state.
Any help is appreciated. I'm really lost this time.:confused:

[michaaa62]

Looks like your bootloader installation is corrupted. Did you boot through grub? Reinstalling grub from a chroot from your RIP linux . Mount your root partition to some point like /mnt. Dont forget /boot and all your seperate partitions, if there are any.
su
mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
mount /dev/sdaY /mnt/boot #if necessary, its your /boot partition
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
chroot /mnt
Now the prompt changesgrub-install --no-floppy --recheck /dev/sda
Reboot

[tantan]

Thanks!. But it didn't work. Same blinking prompt still.

[michaaa62]

Is there another drive attached like a usb-stick or usb-hdd, which the bios thinks it should boot of?
You could try to point the grub-install command to the root directory with the option --root-directory=/ .
Anyway what is your setup? Dual boot or linux only, is your system on more than one partition?
Did you try to locate the grub.conf and look for a possibly broken resume entry? is your grub menu hidden?
Please give some more info.

[tantan]

Hello again !
Here is my customization:
1) ~16 GB HHD, IDE. Installed F15 through PREUPGRADE, over a F14 installation. (Both distros always showed "sdaX" for partition number X, even if harddrive is an IDE; RIP linux shows them as hdaX. Just a note.) Partition scheme: sda1 = /boot : ext2, 0.327 GiB; sda2 = / : ext4 (default), 11 GiB; sda3 = /var : ext4, 4 GiB; sda4 = [swap] : rest of HDD (+/- 0.924 GiB).
2) Where is /home, you ask ?? Well, it is on a USB (Allows me for a convenient backup). A entire 8 GiB drive dedicated to that.
3) BIOS is configured to not boot from USB : disabled legacy and USB and LAN .... any option to boot from any devices other than CD or HDD.

You could try to point the grub-install command to the root directory with the option --root-directory=/ .

Hope my specifications will give you and others some info in order to help and prevent me to break the system any further...

Did you try to locate the grub.conf and look for a possibly broken resume entry? is your grub menu hidden?

I don't know how to do that, precisely.
But I tried this:
RIP linux. Mount partitions. grub.conf:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686 ro root=UUID=5c232fec-040b-4d35-a63e-776719245e62 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.38.8-32.fc15.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=5c232fec-040b-4d35-a63e-776719245e62 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=5c232fec-040b-4d35-a63e-776719245e62 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.img


A line says 'hiddenmenu' (WELL, not so hidden, I can access it by pressing spacebar at startup), after wich follows 3 entries corresponding with the diferent kernels the system had installed (Tried before first post; I could not start the system with any of these options, anyway) .
Hope this helps to diagnose/troubleshoot.

[tantan]

:)Nothing yet ??

[hephasteus]

:)Nothing yet ??

If you don't have a big enough swap space then when you close lid it suspends to disk and the disk is not big enough to suspend correctly so it goes nuts and it tries to reload the system to how it was before you closed the lid and if you chopped of a gig or 2 of ram space then it can't reload it.
IE if you have 4gb of ram you're swap space has to be slighly larger than 4gb or around 5gb.

[tantan]

If you don't have a big enough swap space then when you close lid it suspends to disk and the disk is not big enough to suspend correctly so it goes nuts and it tries to reload the system to how it was before you closed the lid and if you chopped of a gig or 2 of ram space then it can't reload it.
IE if you have 4gb of ram you're swap space has to be slighly larger than 4gb or around 5gb.
:) Thank you very much !! It's a great hint to the cause of the problem. 1280 MB ram vs 946 MB swap. But, I can't still boot the system. How to revert that operation in case it really was.

[tantan]

Here is some more information that may help Last minute.
Hangs during Display Manager...

[tantan]

Does this issue have a solution ?? ::Please help.