Re: failed upgrade, urgent help needed
my foul up was in mistyoing apt-utils as "aptutils" and not reading the
error message properly.
perhaps apt-utils should be a dependency of the kernel that needs it for
install?
it would save many idiots like me from ourselves.
At 05:53 PM 8/11/02 +0930, Tom Cook wrote:
>There is very little concrete information in this message that is of
>any use in diagnosing your problem.
>
>Why do you think you fouled up the apt-utils upgrade?
>
>What do these messages say about the kernel modules?
>
>Were there any failure messages when you tried to install the 2.4.18
>kernel?
>
>My advice, when you get a login on your system, is:
>
>(a) See if you still have the old 2.4.7 kernel image on your system,
>and if so then configure LILO to use that for a start. Then you
>system should be bootable.
>
>(b) apt-get --reinstall install kernel-image-2.4.18
>
>(c) Make sure that the kernel image is installed and that
>/lib/modules/2.4.18 exists and contains the modules you are likely to
>need (as a minimum; it should contain a lot of others, too).
>
>Give us more specific information and I'll try to be more specific in
>my help.
>
>Regards
>Tom
>
>On 0, John Griffiths <john@capmon.com> wrote:
>> hi, i've just tried to upgrade from a potato box running the 2.4.7 kernel
>> from the adrian bunk source
>>
>> I think we fouled up upgrading apt-utils and didn't realise until we were
>> upgrading the kernel to 2.4.18
>>
>> on boot lilo starts up but then we get a string of messages about kernel
>> modules and then it dies (kernel panic).
>>
>> i'm making a boot floppy now
>>
>> but any advice as to how to fix the problem would be massively appreciated
>>
>> (i tried the IRC channel but didn't get much help)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
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