Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed
lrhorer wrote:
>
> Well, this is the third or fourth upgrade to Squeeze from
> Lenny I have
> attempted, and they all have been painful. This one has failed,
> though. I upgraded and got everything working, but then I decided to
> clean up a bit. I did a couple of runs of `apt-get autoremove` and an
> `apt-get upgrade, along with installing startupmanager. I removed the
> old 2.6.26 kernel image, and then updated Grub. Then I rebooted the
> machine. Grub comes up, and if I let it boot to Windows, it works, but
> if I select Linux (normal or recovery), very shortly after starting to
> boot the video output from the machine just dies. I don't mean it
> goes blank, I mean the video goes away altogether, as if the machine
> is shut
> down. The monitor reports a loss of video signal, yet the PC is still
> running and continues to access the hard drive.
>
> When it was working, the machine would start out in text mode,
> but
> quickly would switch to graphics mode when booting. I am not certain,
> but I think it is at this same point the video output dies, now. I've
> tried booting from the installation CD and removing then re-installing
> xorg, kdm, and kdebase. No joy. What should I try, now?
>
> I captured the dmesg and syslog files, but nothing jumps out
> at me. Is
> there something specific for which I should look in the logs?
OK, I found the issue. One of the things I did was run GRUB2's
startupmanager and set the default boot option. While I was in there,
I also told it to show the boot splash and changed the resolution to
1024 x 768. Apparently, it did not like that. I booted the system to
a bank screen then telnetted in from another machine and removed the
contents of the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line. Of course I then ran
update-grub and rebooted. Viola! Now it boots normally.
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