Re: Can't boot from hd after upgrade to woody
>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>:
> Platform: DECpc 450SLC/e (laptop w/486, 8MB RAM, 250MB HD)
[snip! boot worked with potato, but not after dist-upgrade to woody]
> Is this caused by a LILO upgrade and incompatibilities with old
> hardware?
It seems to have been caused by the LILO upgrade. Bjørn Mork showed
me how to downgrade the LILO to the potato version.
I added the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
I created an /etc/apt/preferences file, containing:
Package: lilo
Pin: version 1:21.*
Pin-Priority: 1001
I then did
apt-get update
apt-get install lilo
and then did a reboot, which worked perfectly.
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