On 02/03/18 04:23, John wrote: > Slightly different issue but I am part way through an upgrade from > Whezzy to Stretch. After the upgrade to Jessie my (headless) computer > failed to boot. After a struggle getting keyboard and screen it > stalled after loading the kernel, probably a broken initrd file > > It booted OK with the last Whezzy kernel but I am afraid to try to > upgrade to Stretch with this suspect system. Problem is this machine > is the interface between the LAN and the Internet so without it things > are difficult > ==John ffitch > So you've got a jessie system that won't boot with the jessie kernel, but will boot with the wheezy kernel? While you've got the keyboard and screen handy, you could try the jessie-backports kernel, which is more similar to the stretch kernel, and if that works you should be ok to upgrade. Richard
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