Re: [oS-EN] Weird boot sequence.

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:35:22 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On 2026-07-19 00:17, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2026-07-17 02:08, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> On 2026-07-17 00:00, Bill Swisher wrote:
>>> On 7/16/26 11:39 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>>> This has happened before, very sporadically. 
>>>
>>> Err...uhh...your BIOS is confused? Mine all do a boot when the power 
>>> cord goes hot, of course they're not running on battery at the time 
>>> since I don't do battery powered PC's (or hibernation for that matter).
>>
>> When I plug the cable or connect the mains I get a triple blink on 
>> the power led, but that's it.
>>
>> But it is my normal sequence of things: I push the power button on 
>> the laptop, then sometime later I power up mains. And often, in 
>> between, I enter the encryption password.
>>
>
> It is now happening on every boot.
>
> I have seen in the log errors related to the swap and also to the xfs 
> home partition. It is an M2 disk.
>
...
> smartcl doesn't show any error.
>
>
> I will attempt to boot from rescue USB, running TW, and run fsck on 
> all partitions. My main computer is also offline, broken disk, so I 
> will not be able to communicate. Maybe I can setup email on rescue image.
>

I'm back.

I found out that the TW rescue CD on USB stick doesn't have persistence. 
Everything I installed there days ago is lost, my configurations are lost.

*Laicolasse:~ #* lsblk --output NAME,KNAME,RA,RM,RO,PARTFLAGS,SIZE,TYPE,FSTYPE,LABEL,PARTLABEL,PTTYPE,MOUNTPOINT,UUID,PARTUUID,WWN,MODEL,SERIAL,ALIGNMENT | less -S


NAME          KNAME       RA RM RO PARTFLAGS                              SIZE TYPE  FSTYPE      LABEL                         PARTLABEL PTTYPE MOUNTPOINT UUID                                 PARTUUID>
sda           sda       1024  1  0                                       57.7G disk                                                      gpt>
├─sda1        sda1      1024  1  0 0x1000000000000001                   802.3M part  iso9660     openSUSE_Tumbleweed_Rescue_CD ISO9660   gpt               2026-06-03-08-13-53-00               36323032-3630-4330>
└─sda2        sda2      1024  1  0                                         20M part  vfat        BOOT                          Appended2 gpt               997D-D87E                            36323032-3630-4330>


Anyway. Smartctl long test found no error. I did an fsck on home 
(xfs_repair), found nothing. Mounted swap, nothing. Rebooted, nothing.


Baffled.


-- 
Cheers / Saludos,
                
		Carlos E. R.

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