On Saturday 09 July 2005 23:13, Rohan Mars wrote: > Great jobs with Sarge. Really impressed. Thank you for these kind words. > I thought I would suggest you put an additional note in section 4.6 of > the release notes for upgrading from woody. > > Basically, the problem I ran into (several times) was that you need to > rerun lilo if you don't upgrade the kernel. Several machines I run have > custom kernels so I could directly download them through apt. The > problem is that if you don't rerun lilo (or install a new kernel which > does) the machine will not boot. In my case I solved this by booting > into a rescue system and then running lilo. > > A note in section 4.6 which says if you don't install a new kernel you > need to run lilo would help others in the future I suspect. Can you explain _why_ lilo needs to be run during the upgrade? Cheers, FJP
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