[Neurodebian-users] NeuroDebian initial boot problem

[yoh at onerussian.com]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Bram Callewaert wrote:

>    Dear all,

>    I installed NeuroDebian (8.0.0; 64 bit) on my windows PC using the Oracle
>    VM virtual Machine (Virtual Box 6.1) , but I am having problems with the
>    inital booting.  

eh, I wish we upgraded it to something more recent (like debian buster
10.0) but previous attempts were not finalized...  note that you
can "as easily" use any other debian VM image you could trust (since
AFAIK there are no official ones) or install Debian "yourself" fully.
It is not that bad actually.  This walkthrough seems to be quite good:

https://linuxhint.com/install_debian10_virtualbox/

That would allow you to size your VM harddrive more appropriately etc.

After you install it, just install neurodeban and neurodebian-desktop
packages and you would get quite close to the VM setup




>    “ Loading please wait. . .

>      Fsck from util-linux 2.25.2

>      /dev/sda1: recovering journal

>      /dev/sda1: clean, 87152/2498560 files, 641636/9985200 blocks

>      o “


>    Then the text dissapears and only the – remains (flashing) on the screen.

:-(  "recovering journal" suggests that it was not shut down "properly"
but it seems has recovered ok and I would have expected it to boot... 


>    I tried to restart the virtual machine, the computer, adjust the memory
>    settings, ..., but I am not getting past this point.

>    Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be?

sorry  - no immediate ideas. Also that 8.0.0 jessie is quite old by now
and even LTS ended for it: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS just a few days
ago.


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