Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:48:10PM -0400, Mario Flores wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
Why are you messing around with LILO? LILO is obsolescent, if not
obsolete. (I've forgotten; perhaps LILO still was an option with
Woody.) You should be using GRUB, which is the boot loader which newer
Debian systems install by default.
Go to another machine and Make yourself a GRUB boot CD (or, if you
prefer, a boot floppy). You can boot from the GRUB CD, and then repair
your system. Everybody ought to keep a GRUB boot CD handy!
RLH
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