On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:46:39PM +0200, marco_elen wrote: > Then I launched apt-get dist-upgrade. > After a few question, it apt-get finished. > Then I rebooted the machine. > And... THE SYSTEM HANGS. > It just write "LI" (maybe it starts to write LILO?) and hangs :(
This is Lilo's way of telling you which part of the booting succeeded. The lilo manual should be able to explain what is wrong when only LI is printed. With `man lilo' you can find the following, which is at least the beginning of an answer, though it may not immediately solve your problem: BOOT ERRORS The boot process takes place in two stages. The first stage loader is a single sector, and is loaded by the BIOS or by the loader in the MBR. It loads the multi-sector second stage loader, but is very space limited. When the first stage loader gets control, it types the letter "L"; when it is ready to transfer control to the second stage loader it types the letter "I". If any error occurs, like a disk read error, it will put out a hexadecimil error code, and then it will re-try the operation. All hex error codes are BIOS return values, except for the lilo-generated 40, 99 and 9A. A partial list of error codes follows: > Would adding all 7 Woody CDs and all the 14 Sarge CDs make the > installation and upgrade process work? If apt-get finished without complaining that some packages still needed to be installed, then I would say that feeding it more cds won't work. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse
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