[GTALUG] Cannot open rescue disk

[William Park]

I assume you tried different usb port.  It could be USB ports on the
motherboard are toast.
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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 11:09:47PM -0400, Ken Heard via talk wrote:
> The computer has Debian Jessie installed in it.  One day recently after
> starting it, the BIOS identified the hardware.  It went as far as to display
> the line "Verifying DMI Pool Data ..................." and then stopped. The
> rest of the monitor was filled up with series of 99s
> 
> I then tried to use a the Rescue mode on a Stretch net install disk. The
> opening menu of the disk appeared on the monitor, but it did not respond to
> input from the keyboard.  I consequently could not select the rescue option.
> 
> I checked the keyboard on another computer where it worked.  Using the
> keyboard from the other computer on the one not working also did not work
> there.
> 
> The net install disk can be opened on the other computer.  In fact I used it
> there to install Stretch on it.
> 
> I did a Google search, but all the references I found assumed ability to
> open the computer from a rescue disk.
> 
> Does anybody know why this problem would arise, and what to do about it --
> if anything -- by way of fixing it.
> 
> Regards, Ken Heard
> 
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