06-24-2017, 06:17 PM
I'm really pulling my hair out now. I tried booting in safe video mode, but that didn't help either. About the only difference was that I watched all the commands roll by as opposed to seeing the second splash screen for a time.
Then, worse news. I downloaded Mint 18 and created a fresh, bootable stick. That won't even work now. So my next move with it will be to download Mint 17 and attempt to boot to it. I have to pinpoint the actual problem. This is one of those things that is REALLY going to bug me.
As for your suggestions and recommendations, gold_finger, when I get back on her laptop I'll post the results of inxi -Fxz. Yes, I'm thinking right along with you as far as something being slightly different between Mint 17 and all these later release distros, so I am going to try Mint 17 again. Att his point I have NOTHING that will boot on that laptop.
Some of the other things I tried included booting some of the sticks I created here on my laptop. Every one of them booted just fine. There isn't a LOT of difference between my laptop and hers. Mine is a Lenovo G50-45 with an AMD A8-6410 APU, 4 GiB RAM, and AMD Radeon R5 Graphics × 4. The two laptops were purchased about 4 months apart and were originally loaded with Windows. The day I received each laptop I did a complete wipe of the hard drives, then installed Mint 17 on them. The funny thing is that I used the same, exact USB stick to load each one with. That stick has been formatted and used for many other purposes since, but it was the same one I used to load with.
I also have 2 different sticks I've been using to ensure I don't happen to have a bad stick, but that was never a real consideration since multiple distros each experienced the same problem at the same point in bootup. I really want to have Lite installed on both these laptops, but at this point I'm certainly considering just about anything with hers.
I did take time yesterday to try one other thing. I used Synaptic to do "complete removals" of pretty much every app and package on her laptop. Then I ran the autoremove command, and then did a full version upgrade. Once that was finally done I went back in and made the few tweaks I usually do and then, one by one, reinstalled the apps/packages she uses. I made certain to delete the hidden directories for each of the apps in her home directory so no traces of old problems were left on the machine. Once all done I did quite a bit of web surfing, emailing, doc creation, etc, etc. That machine is just too slow for the hardware it has. I've just GOT to get a fresh install done on it. At this point I'm actually considering buying an optical drive for the sole purpose of installing a new distro!
Then, worse news. I downloaded Mint 18 and created a fresh, bootable stick. That won't even work now. So my next move with it will be to download Mint 17 and attempt to boot to it. I have to pinpoint the actual problem. This is one of those things that is REALLY going to bug me.
As for your suggestions and recommendations, gold_finger, when I get back on her laptop I'll post the results of inxi -Fxz. Yes, I'm thinking right along with you as far as something being slightly different between Mint 17 and all these later release distros, so I am going to try Mint 17 again. Att his point I have NOTHING that will boot on that laptop.
Some of the other things I tried included booting some of the sticks I created here on my laptop. Every one of them booted just fine. There isn't a LOT of difference between my laptop and hers. Mine is a Lenovo G50-45 with an AMD A8-6410 APU, 4 GiB RAM, and AMD Radeon R5 Graphics × 4. The two laptops were purchased about 4 months apart and were originally loaded with Windows. The day I received each laptop I did a complete wipe of the hard drives, then installed Mint 17 on them. The funny thing is that I used the same, exact USB stick to load each one with. That stick has been formatted and used for many other purposes since, but it was the same one I used to load with.
I also have 2 different sticks I've been using to ensure I don't happen to have a bad stick, but that was never a real consideration since multiple distros each experienced the same problem at the same point in bootup. I really want to have Lite installed on both these laptops, but at this point I'm certainly considering just about anything with hers.
I did take time yesterday to try one other thing. I used Synaptic to do "complete removals" of pretty much every app and package on her laptop. Then I ran the autoremove command, and then did a full version upgrade. Once that was finally done I went back in and made the few tweaks I usually do and then, one by one, reinstalled the apps/packages she uses. I made certain to delete the hidden directories for each of the apps in her home directory so no traces of old problems were left on the machine. Once all done I did quite a bit of web surfing, emailing, doc creation, etc, etc. That machine is just too slow for the hardware it has. I've just GOT to get a fresh install done on it. At this point I'm actually considering buying an optical drive for the sole purpose of installing a new distro!
Steve
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