omnichad

So...not trying to troll in my own thread or anything but you sound like a Windows user, all of a sudden.

I'm not going to learn anything that way. I'm already at a point where I can get it to boot with an alternate kernel. The rest of the whole operating system seems fine. A reinstall would risk ruining the rest of it. This is obviously a very specific problem, with a broad range of possible causes.

I am going to consider this case closed unless I get a good tip. I'd rather have a computer that mysteriously works, and maybe work on it when I have time than to do anything that risks making it worse, with no undo.

gogalthorp

The repair does a reinstall of all items. But also there is some diagnostics and simple repair of the file system that can be done and you don't have to do the full reinstall. More extensive repair must be done form single user mode or an external boot disk. It truly bothers me that your BIOS settings were messed up. This simply should not happen. All sorts of weird things can happen if the BIOS is not correct. So before you do any more writing to the partition check the file system.