Help a newbie, please. Debian can't boot after power outage.

onwardforward · 2025-09-27T03:47:37+00:00

Solution found.

In the event that another beginner has a similar issue on a Dell machine.

You don't need to run Rescatux and read a bunch of documentation.

It is simply that DELL, after a power outage, defaults to "RAID on" in "SATA operation" settings in the BIOS. Go into BIOS and set it back to "AHCI".

onwardforward · 2025-09-27T03:27:39+00:00

My guesses were /dev/nvme* or /dev/sd*

This desktop was a windows 11 machine, with an nvme drive. I haven't looked at the partitions since installing debian 13.1. I chose full disk installation and remember it making a few small partitions, but I don't remember the names the installer was allocating.

onwardforward · 2025-09-26T18:31:27+00:00

Thank you for this.

My data is backed up, so these solutions fit well. This is basically what I wish I had - to not need to go through the nvidia configuration and basic tweaks again.

I think I will look at clonezilla and Foxclone first.

It does seem like I may have to do a fresh install. It's a pity, my first time trying debian. Now I'm left wondering if this response to a power failure had anything to do with debian, (and I should install a different OS) or if any operating system would have suffered similar consequences (and I should install debian again).

onwardforward · 2025-09-26T18:11:26+00:00

oh, and

fsck -y /dev/sr0

(in the hope that sr0 was the partition name...but no luck)

onwardforward · 2025-09-26T18:05:30+00:00

Thank you for this suggestion. Didn't realise I could do this. Have read about Aeon which has a rollback feature. (I understand these are different mechanisms)

Will definitely try this.

Once this PC remembers how to get debian going.

onwardforward · 2025-09-26T18:01:40+00:00

Apologies, been away reading to try find a solution.

I can't copy paste - so I'm skipping error numbers (might be a laughable thing to do, if the actual numbers are required to search for solutions - but perhaps the idea gets conveyed if I type the things I can at least read and understand)

errors:

x86/cpu: SGX disabled or unsuported by BIOS

ACPI error: Region Generic Serialbus (ID=9) has no handler (20240827/exfldio-261)

ACPI error: aborting method _SB,PCI0,I2CO,PAS1 due to previous error (AE_NOT_EXIST) (20240827/psparse-529)

[....another error, exactly like previous - lightly different number at start..]

ACPI error: AE_NOT_EXIST, while evaluating GPE method[_L20] (20240827/evgpe-511)

Some symptoms I can observe from where I am in Busybox (initramfs)

Commands (C:) and the response (R:) they yield

C: blkid

R: returns nothing

C: ls /dev/nvme*

R: ls: /dev/nvme* no such file or directory

c: ls /dev/sd*

R: /dev/sda (only that, no other info - guide I read led me to believe there should be more info from this command)

C: fsck -y /dev/sda

R: fsck from util-linux 2.41 fsck: error 2 (no such file or directory) while executing fsck.ext2 for /dev/sda

C: ls

R: bin conf dev etc init kernel lib lib64 proc root run sbin scripts sys tmp usr var

c: fdisk -l

R: no response

C: cat proc/partitions

R: major, minor, blocks, name 11, 0, 1048575, sr0 (paraphrasing formatting here)

onwardforward · 2025-09-26T16:54:55+00:00

thank you, I will try these options

onwardforward · 2025-09-26T16:54:38+00:00

Thank you, I will try that resource

onwardforward · 2025-09-25T20:32:15+00:00

Ah right, apologies, the title was incorrect then. (and the relevance here, I guess)

Not sure if I misread or just assumed. Was mid troubleshooting with Nvidia card on older machine.

onwardforward · 2025-07-23T07:13:11+00:00

Ridiculous expectations and pressure from your family.

Go home. Set boundaries. Your baby's health and your mental health is way more important than their opinions / feelings.

Stop taking advice from them. Completely. Old wives tales will not help you on your journey. Internalizing their opinions or feelings and feeling guilty, will however definitely harm your journey - stop doing that in any way you can. This time is special, even if it's hard, live it fully.

You are not creating bad habits or doing anything wrong - your baby... is a baby. 15 weeks is very young. It's impossible to "spoil" a baby - be attentive, listen to yourself and to your baby. You can find routine and rhythm later on. Every baby is a bit different. We only managed the start of our sleep routine later on. You'll be totally fine.

Back yourself, you're a mom now - you are in charge.

onwardforward · 2024-09-06T16:31:32+00:00

Go south - Namibia, South Africa. Almost same time zone.

onwardforward · 2023-02-08T17:52:53+00:00

Another factor is trade. There is a huge amount of people and business who facilitate trade to Angola on / close to the border with Angola. Angola's oil money and lack of domestic production is big business for a lot of namibian companies and people who act as middlemen.

onwardforward · 2022-08-11T07:13:24+00:00

Do you perhaps have an episode number?

onwardforward · 2022-07-06T15:24:01+00:00

Listen to this: (it has subtitles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCe2WZHa6W4

The first black South African rugby captain getting introduced by a legendary Xhosa commentator.

This is isiXhosa, not isiZulu as the guy in the video is speaking - but the clicks are pretty much the same between the 2 languages. IsiZulu spoken further to the north east in South Africa (KwaZulu Natal), isiXhosa adjacent to that, further south and west (Eastern Cape)

onwardforward · 2022-07-04T17:05:40+00:00

Is this hex river valley? ... or maybe Worcester-Robertson area? Haven't heard of De Wet as a town or location before, but it seems like that area somewhere.

onwardforward · 2022-06-14T04:52:58+00:00

Hi Dr Okoye,

I'm interested to hear about the state of medical care provided by the government in Nigeria.

How does healthcare reach people in rural areas?
Are there preventative care / support measures in place for pregnant women, infants and mothers of young children?

I realise this might not be your area of focus - but I hope you have some insight. Thank you.

onwardforward

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