Boot process hang (after swap creation?)

[simgunz]

I downloaded the latest Debian 9 live usb with nonfree driver and burned it to a USB drive. I loaded the live system on an old ASUS X71SL. I managed to run the live and then install the system. The debian system was able to boot fine. After rebooting in Windows 7 and applying a Windows update the Debian system hanged on boot. In particular starting in Debian recovery mode it seems to hang after these two messages:

zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud
[ 3.651373] ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!

I tried to run the live USB and also that one hanged at the same point.

The last time I managed to boot I created a swap partition on a logical partition of the disk. Can this be the cause? Can it be that also the live tries to use the swap and it hangs?

[L_V]

Try to add noresume as kernel boot option.

[simgunz]

Tried what you suggested and nothing changed.

I now removed the swap partition. Same problem.

Tried to boot ubuntu live and I get a black screen with blinking cursor.

Tried to boot with TinyCore and it get stuck on "Booting the kernel".

[simgunz]

Another thing I did before the hang was to add the swap and an NTFS HHD to fstab. I used the disk naming /dev/sda1 instead of UUID, while the root file system used UUID. can be this mixing og naming that causes the hang? How can I change this if I cannot boot any distro?

[Segfault]

> I tried to run the live USB and also that one hanged at the same point.

Sounds like the Windows update did something to your BIOS/UEFI. Can't tell what, I'm not a Windows user.

[L_V]

A I used the disk naming /dev/sda1 instead of UUID, while the root file system used UUID.

This can obviously be the root cause if you boot from usb. Then use UUID for root and swap identification.

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[p.H]

Another thing I did before the hang was to add the swap and an NTFS HHD to fstab. I used the disk naming /dev/sda1 instead of UUID, while the root file system used UUID. can be this mixing og naming that causes the hang?

Be serious. How could this have any effect on another system ?

[simgunz]

Another thing I did before the hang was to add the swap and an NTFS HHD to fstab. I used the disk naming /dev/sda1 instead of UUID, while the root file system used UUID. can be this mixing og naming that causes the hang?

Be serious. How could this have any effect on another system ?

The fstab entries clearly cannot have effects of the USB live, I am just reporting all the things that I did. But I am wondering what can have an effect on a USB live distro that was working 5 minutes before. The only thing I can think of is either the BIOS or the swap (maybe the usb live tries to use the swap if it finds one). I ruled out the swap by eliminating the swap partion. So it can be only the BIOS (or an hardware failure?).

The BIOS does not have UEFI or secure boot, it's a plain old legacy BIOS without many options.

Another thing is that at some point the date/time of the BIOS was wrong and I set it to the correct time (maybe the BIOS battery is dying).

This can obviously be the root cause if you boot from usb. Then use UUID for root and swap identification.

I did remove the swap partition from Windows. So it should not affect the live USB? Also form where should I run that command. I cannot reach any shell.

[L_V]

Do you have something like this in your BIOS ?
"Security Chip / Security tab "
If yes, try disabling security chip.

[p.H]

Can you boot a live system when the internal drive is unplugged ? Failure would rule out any change that the Windows update may have done to the drive contents.

[simgunz]

As reported here:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=198561

BIOS > Security> I / O interface Security> "New interface card" or so. Set it to locked.

Solves the problem.

Still not sure what caused this.
I may have resetted the BIOS settings by mistake and this thing go resetted to unlocked.

[L_V]

Still not sure what caused this.

I think you already have answered to your question.

After rebooting in Windows 7 and applying a Windows update the Debian system hanged on boot.