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newsEasy Excalibur hanging again at 2nd boot
I thought it was fixed, see earlier blog post:
- Kernel 6.12.35 freeze — July 06, 2025
...the kernel in Easy 6.108 is 6.12.37, with those changes reverted. And, testing, it looked fixed. Until forum member james2 posted:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=152262#p152262
2nd startup tonight loading stopped after services on checking
for opticals
Yes, that's about where it was freezing for me.
I've been testing Easy Excalibur on a WD Elements 480GB SSD, see
this blog post:
- First test WD Elements SE SSD 480GB and comparisons — May 14, 2022
Many repeated boots, no problem.
james2's post got me worried. I wrote Easy 6.109 (the latest build, still the 6.12.37 kernel), to a Crucial SSD CT480E100SSD8, 480GB NVME M.2, in a Simplecom SE505 USB caddy. The caddy is described here:
First boot OK, second boot ...oh dear, it hangs, about the same place as james2's experience.
So, that has got me wondering...
The WD SSD is probably a SATA interface, but perhaps that is not
a factor. What does jump out at me is that the one that works is
USB gen1, the one that fails is gen2.
I haven't got figures right now, but I do recall that the data transfer when using easydd was faster to the WD SSD than to the Crucial SSD. Which seems wrong, but I recall something, can't recall the details, that Linux has some problems with USB gen2 ...these are only vague memories, from awhile back, will have to read up on it.
Anyway, having one SSD that boots repeatedly OK, the other only
once, does give me something to go on. Right now, I'm wondering
about udev. Easy Excalibur has udev rules provided by
Devuan/Debian packages, whereas before most of the core rules were
from the compile of eudev in OpenEmbedded.
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