I’ve been trying to preserve home. So that might be the problem? Yea,
manjaro wouldn’t install either. The boot loader could not be installed.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:24 AM Matthew Gibson via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Have you done a nuke and pave install or are you limping your /home along?
> you could have some “could not be installed form of corrupted config file
> in your home that might be causing problems. worth a thought. and a stroll
> through your home dir.
> To
> Thanks for the update. Keep up the troubleshooting spirit!
>
> TTFN
> Matthew
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:23 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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