SteamOS hanging on boot (logo)

[SalameMaster]

My SteamOS stoped working some days ago. It just hangs at the purple logo.
I already pressed ESC, holded SHIFT but I don't know how to access its grub menu so I can see what is happening and try to fix it.

Any ideas on how to fix my SteamOS?


ps. I have two HDs on this machine, the second one have a Win7 and it´s working perfect. And I have no CD drive to boot any rescue disk.

[S]

unplug your Win7 HDD and start your computer. Keep tapping the Esc key to get into Grub and select 'restore partion'(or whatever it says). This will restore the filesystem with the version you originally installed.

Note: After doing this you might have broken packages, but the OS should boot.

[Shark]

Any chance it is running ssh and you can post the output of dmesg?

[Player]

You can crate very easy a Linux based USB flash drive from MS Windows. There are many tools and lightwheight Linux based distros. For fast use and creation I like Porteus Linux, Puppy Linux, Slitaz, etc. Here are the tools I like to use: Lili USB (Linux Live USB Creator), Live usb creator (pendrivelinux), unebootin, SARDU, etc. It is easy to create a bootable drive even if you don't have the ".iso" image because the program for its creation can download the latest version of your preffered distro for you.

[SalameMaster]

Hi guys, sorry for take so long to come back, my baby girl is only 8 days old now and I´m a little bit out of spare time. :)

I find out that press ESC desperatly on boot, brings the grub menu.

Selecting the "Rescue Mode" option I can sse the boot messages and see that it hangs after saying that the HDD of the UUID "nnn" can not be found.

The funny part is that in the menus I have the "CloneZilla" option, and selecting this one, it will boot to a menu where I can select to drop me on a command shell. There I can mount all my SteamOS partitions and they are all perfect. There I can also confirm that the root partition has the right "nnn" UUID.

So it seens odd that I managed to mount and confirm that the UUID of my partitions are alright. I don´t understand why grub can´t find it and have absolutly no idea on how to fix it.
If it was LiLo I would already fixed it... damn grub.

Can someone more exprienced on grub point me in the right direction that does not include wipeout what I already have?


ps. That episode and my lack of spare time makes me wonder why on earth I dind´t buy a PS4 already... hehehe.

[Player]

Congratulations - daddy! Felicidades! ;)
I think you will need to wait until someone experienced in GRUB2 will see your post or you will need to find help on any Ubuntu, Debian or other distro forum/community. But I think the fastest way is a fresh install. Wait one day more, if no one helps you here, then install SteamOS again without attaching or detaching other HDDs (IMHO) to not commit the same "error".

[SalameMaster]

Hi people.

My baby girl is doing just fine as my SteamOS too... I managed to fix it!
Using some info found at http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/109464/how-can-i-fix-install-reinstall-grub I did that:

1- Keep pressing ESC at boot to show the grub menu
2- Select Clonezilla
3- At the Clonezilla menu, select "shell" and "cmd"
4- mkdir hd
5- sudo mount /dev/sda2 hd ; sudo mount --bind /dev hd/dev ; sudo mount --bind /dev/pts hd/pts ; sudo mount --bind /proc hd/proc ; sudo mount --bind /sys hd/sys
6- sudo chroot hd
7- /etc/init.d/networking start

This latest command I did in the hope that network would start, instead it started to give a bunch of messages about modules missing and started to messing around with grub.
I just waited.
After it did it's stuff...

8- exit
9- sudo umount hd/proc hd/sys
10- sudo umount -l hd/dev/pts hd/dev
11- shutdown -r 0

So it booted into SteamOS and started to update Steam... Was a magic moment! ;)


Hope it helps others.
Thx everyone!
Vlw galera!