Hi Michael, On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:45:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Trying to upgrade from lenny to squeeze I ended up with an > unbootable system when grub got partially installed due to udev not > installing because the kernel was too old. (So grub was already > broken, and I couldn't boot into a newer kernel at that point to fix > the udev problem.) 571255 seems to touch on this, but needing a > rescue cd is pretty unusual for a debian upgrade. I'm working on getting 571255 sorted in the near future. In the meantime, it would be helpful if you could provide some more details about grub being broken because it was "partially installed". Does this mean that the udev failure led to grub2 (the grub-pc package) being unpacked but not configured at the point udev's preinst failed, and this prevented being able to run update-grub to get a newly-installed kernel package configured in the bootloader? Which part of this led to needing a rescue CD? If you have apt logs available of this upgrade showing the unpack/configure order and the failures, it would be helpful if you filed a bug against the upgrade-reports pseudopackage with this information. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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