I spoke too soon. It boot into busybox this morning. So it is looking like
it is the hard drive after all. One mor operating system to try before I
buy the new hard drive. I was told arch works best so (while not arch)
manjaro is what I will try. I tried to install arch but it failed while I
was installing it.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 5:12 AM Michael <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> okay, here is a little update. I installed 20.3 and ran it like two days
> with no busybox error. I then update the operating system (not
> dist-upgrade) and the next boot gave the hardware splashscreen and then it
> went black. So I can live with the computer but can't update it. Oh well.
> It will only be for a year!
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 6:30 PM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> eh. Just pointed you in the right direction. Good luck in your
>> distro-hop.
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:28 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks so much for taking the time out of your day to teach me how I
>>> should have looked into the error and you solved my problem. So I’ll
>>> distro hop till I find something that doesn’t panic.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 5:21 PM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss <
>>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Salutations.
>>>> Taking a peek at a quick internet search for the keywords "initramfs
>>>> zstd compression" and perusing the listings with the knowledge that Michael
>>>> is using Mint21 (I'm assuming it's similarly labeled following it's parent
>>>> of Ubuntu) it seems likely that there is an issue with the compression
>>>> being run on that particular hardware. Then I found this article by
>>>> Phoronix which gives added weight to the theory that it is a compression
>>>> problem: Ubuntu Rethinking Its Initramfs Compression Strategy -
>>>> Phoronix <https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Initramfs-Zstd-Too-High>
>>>>
>>>> It's likely that Mint22 or even Ubuntu21.xx LTS will not have the same
>>>> problem. That's just my theory though. Use at your own discretion.
>>>>
>>>> As for this little jewel of disdain ridden text: "Who ever needed init
>>>> system support before systemd?" Literally anyone who wasn't familiar with
>>>> the technology and didn't RTFM.
>>>>
>>>> Just the thoughts of a Gentoo-Juvenile-now-Fedora-Adult.
>>>> Michael, Hope you find a solution you like for your woes.
>>>> Steve, Stay Sassy friend.
>>>>
>>>> TTFN
>>>> Matthew
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:13 AM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
>>>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 19:47 +0000, T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > You could go to a distro which has something other than systemd for
>>>>> init,
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes yes yes yes, YES!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> > but recognize you will be missing some features (which could
>>>>> probably be done
>>>>> > with something else), the daemon services will be written and
>>>>> managed differently,
>>>>>
>>>>> s/differently/better/ in the case of the runit init system.
>>>>>
>>>>> > and there are a lot fewer people available for support.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who ever needed init system support before systemd?
>>>>>
>>>>> > Unfortunately, a bit of FLOSSware is written with the assumption
>>>>> you're using
>>>>> > systemd.
>>>>>
>>>>> Who needs Gnome and the Snap packager anyway?
>>>>>
>>>>> > I tried Artix for a hot minute but decided ultimately it wasn't for
>>>>> me because
>>>>> > either a) I am dependent on the distributers to maintain their
>>>>> repositories which
>>>>> > are often missing packages for configuring daemon services or b) I
>>>>> would be
>>>>> > compiling packages for myself and writing my own init scripts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Try Void Linux. All major software, and even some minor software, is
>>>>> supported. Void
>>>>> uses the Runit init system. With runit, writing your own init scripts
>>>>> (called run
>>>>> scripts) is trivial --- easier than writing a systemd Unit File.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that the s6 init system is a little more complicated and
>>>>> featureful, but what I
>>>>> said about runit is true of s6 too.
>>>>>
>>>>> SteveT
>>>>> A happy Void and Runit user for 7 years
>>>>>
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