Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815
On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:39:34 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > why is an upgrade not an option?
> > >
> > > Upgrade to what? He wants to install Jessie, you can't get a newer
> > > stable Debian than that.
> >
> > I guess he meant a dist-upgrade from an installed wheezy to jessie, if
> > jessie won't do a fresh install.
>
> I think the OP's attempt at a dist-upgrade was described in item 2 of
> his first mail.
Oh, yes, sure (^.^);
Ok, then a few questions to the OP that come to mind, since we still don't
seem to know why the jessie boot actually fails:
Did you try to boot different kernel versions, does the old kernel from
wheezy also fail to boot (just to rule out a problem of jessie's kernel
with that particular machine)?
What's the contents of your sources.list file? Sometimes I myself
experienced problems with a dist-upgrade when mirrors like backports or
multimedia where active during that process. (ok, since a fresh install
seems to fail also, that's probably not the issue here)
Maybe you could post the exact error messages that show up during the
failed boot?
Regards
Michael
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