Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...
On 08/08/2006 09:48 PM, Mario Flores wrote:
Hi,
I have upgraded from woody to sarge and after a very long list of
packages being installed, my system is a mess:
Right after the upgrade, I launched X and kdm (I had kdm and kde working
fine prior to the upgrade) and at log in, it tried to launch gnome, and
it could not create a desktop. I managed to log out. Then I restarted
the system and found that it could not boot again. The computer is stuck
at lilo (it only prints out the first two letters: "LI") and then it hungs.
Use a bootable Linux CD to fix your /etc/lilo.conf.
LILO and lilo.conf have man-pages:
man lilo
man lilo.conf
After you have put the right stuff into /etc/lilo.conf, you'll
have to tell lilo to install the bootloader and rebuild its
map file. I've you've booted from a CD, and your Debian
installation does _not_ use udev, and you've mounted your root
partition under /mnt/myroot/, then you can probably do this:
lilo -v -r /mnt/myroot
This tells lilo to chroot into your Debian installation's root
directory before reading the /etc/lilo.conf file and accessing
the device notes /dev. If you use udev, /dev might not be
populated properly, and so all bets are off.
I don't have any important stuff on it so I can re-format the HD and do
a clean install. However, if there's something else I can do that would
not take all that time, I would like to try it.
But first, what can I do to make it bootable again? or at least boot
from a cd?
Knoppix and Kanotix are the best boot CDs probably, but you
can also probably use the first Debian installation CD to
boot. However, AFAIK, that CD wants to install GRUB as the
bootloader--not LILO.
And allowing it to do that might not be such a bad idea since
Sarge's default boot loader is GRUB.
Thanks,
[...]
You're welcome and good luck.
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