First of all, I want to thank you for creating and maintaining this website. Second, If this post isn't in the right place please move it (I thought this forum is the most appropriate).
I Installed Debian 9 Stable recently on my 3yr old PC as a dual boot with WIN8 which I used to run. Both in legacy boot mode.
Debian worked like a charm out of the box. I chose to install NVIDIA proprietary drivers and this also worked like a charm.
Today I did two things after which the system would not boot into Debain anymore and would just stack at a black screen. The two things are:
1. Installed transmission (using the "apt-get" command) which seemed to install well and work.
2. As per apt-get recommendation I ran "apt autoremove" in order to remove lots of unneeded packages (it was around 900 MBs). These packages might have been installed since during the installation I chose to install both XFCE and KDE desktop environments. Though in the end I stacked to XFCE and removed KDE later.
After this I did a reboot and it did not managed to make it to the other side.
I tried to search the web and also asked on the #debian IRC channel on OFTC server.
Using the GRUB advanced options I ran the Debian GNU/Linux, with linux 4.9.0-7amd64 and linux 4.9.0-8amd64 with the quite option removed. I got is the following:
4.9.0-7:
and 4.9.0-8
I tried to search the web for solutions. I did try to do the following (with no success whatsoever):
a. I used live CD and ran fsck -f on my partition which came out OK.
b. I used the installation USB and entered graphic rescue mode, reinstalled the GRUB loader and entered the shell, there I got internet access and used the following commands:
- apt-get update
- apt-get dist-upgrade
Here is a good point to mention that I added the backtrack repositories in order to install remmina (which worked great BTW).
So here I am, with a PC that doesn't boot, I'm not too panicked by it since I can always reinstall (since I didn’t do much on this system anyway) but first I want to try and figure it out. I look at this as an adventure. Hopefully one with a positive ending .
I would really appreciate with you may guide me through the process of making my PC run Linux again.
Rami