Re: cannot boot laptop after kernel upgrade

[Pollywog <croak@shadypond.com>]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:44:20 -0600 (CST), Phil Brutsche said:

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>  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
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>  > I don't know how that could happen, I did "make oldconfig"
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>  That would do it...
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>  The driver file system struture changed quite a bit in 2.4
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>  > >  Um... what errors did you get when you tried the boot disk?
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>  > It stalls after LILO.
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>  That's not right.  Could it have been a bad floppy?

No, not a bad floppy.  I think ThinkPads only seem to boot with the
Tecra disk.

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>  Did you try the Debian rescue floppy?

Yes, several of them.

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>  > >  Can you tell us anything about the hardware of your laptop?
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>  > It is a ThinkPad 560
>  > I think I will have to reinstall in the morning.
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>  I'd hate to say it (as I almost *never* re-install, unless it's Windows :)
>  but you might have to.
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>  And be carefull with the 2.4 kernel next time :)

I still have some base disks but they are over a year old, so I might
have to download new images.

thanks

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Andrew