Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:00:40AM +0200, 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).
>
> 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??
Probably not. Try adding "video=ofonly" to your boot parameters. After
that, try asking on debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org.
Frank
> 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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