Can't boot notebook at all anymore

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 09:11:27 +0100, Pete Smout wrote:
>Sounds like a hardware prob

Not necessarily because hardware is broken, a kernel upgrade,
and/or graphics driver upgrade etc. could cause a regression regarding
hardware compatibility. Perhaps the OP should try to boot an older
kernel.

At the moment there could be another issue related to a kernel upgrade.
It doesn't affect hardware compatibility, but does cause some software
to fail.

Unlikely that this issue is related to the problems the OP experiences,
I just want to point out, that there could be even far-fetched issues
similar to this one:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2017-June/017504.html

More likely it's a hardware issue.

As already pointed out by Colin, checking the SMART data should be
done, e.g. by running

$ sudo -i
# for drive in $(smartctl --scan|cut -d- -f1); do smartctl -HA $drive; done

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 23:53:49 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>I ran the disk test and everything seemed to be fine.

What disk test? What output do you get?

>After the reinstall, still no boot.

Does GRUB complain? If so, what messages do you get?

Does the startup process beginn? IIUC it does and you get "couldn't
find /sbin/init", right?

Using a live media, what is the output of

$ ls -l /mountpoint/sbin/init /mountpoint/lib/systemd/systemd

Replace "/mountpoint" by the corect mount point.

Regards,
Ralf
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