Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(
On (06/07/05 11:00), Björn Johansson wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook "Lombard G3" then I upgraded to
> 3.1 stable
> and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of
> course).
>
If you went from unstable(sid) to stable (sarge), you 'downgraded' which
is not recommended for mere mortals ...... I fear you may be
experiencing why.
You could try booting off a live CD (knoppix, kanotix, debian from
scratch) and see if you can repair what's broken; or at least you
should be able to rescue some of your files prior to a reinstall.
http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/dfs.html
Regards
Clive
> This is is the text I get:
>
> ... ok
> opening display /pci@800000000/ATY,LTProParent@11/ATY,264LTProB_
>
> What should I do? This doesn't feel good at all. :-(
> Should I reformat the harddrive and begin from scratch??
> I REALLY don't want to this, since I will lose some files, but if I haveto
> I will do it. The system is now in an unusable state, is there no rescue
> boot image where I can burn down somewhere and use?
>
>
> Kind regards
> Björn, Sweden
>
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