Re: woody: boot fail after upgrade
On Friday 08 October 2004 02:40, Howard Chin wrote:
> I installed woody using the stable distribution a few weeks ago. Recently
> I decided to upgrade to the testing distribution because the packages are
> more up-to-date in that distribution.
> So I changed the apt source in /etc/apt/source.list and replace the word
> "stable" with "testing" in the http entry.
> I then used dselect to update the package list and installed all the
> recommended packages and upgrades.
> After the upgrade, I can no longer boot. The system hang right after the
> BIOS screen with only "Li" printed. Seemed like something went wrong with
> the bootloader. Can someone let me know how it can be fixed?
> Howard
Hi Howard,
According to the Lilo man page, the first stage loader tried to pass control
to the second stage loader, but it detected an error. Are any hex digits
printed after the LI? If so, they give information about the nature of the
error.
It is very unusual that upgrading your software would cause boot problems of
this nature. Did you change any hardware configuration? Did you install a
new kernel?
Justin Guerin
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