On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote:
> > The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to > > sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot > > record - but I don't even know the right terminology to figure out > > what to search for, to try to confirm my suspicions. > > > > The behavior - hangs during boot, almost immediately after noting the > > absence of a bootable CD. It prints 2 characters before the hang: LI. > > My suspicion - LI stands for LILO, and the "upgrade" disagreed with > > whatever I *had* been using (LILO)? wanted me on something else (GRUB?) > > and proceeded to make a mixed muddle that won't boot. > I googled for "linux boot only LI" and got some results. Ah - you must have half recognized the symptoms. The link you gave does indeed look like it's describing my problem. That also confirms that LILO was indeed what I had on this system - probably because it was the default for woody. (I've an idea that grub is the preferred boot loader for more recent debian systems, since that's what I found on all the systems here that were first installed as sarge or etch.) > Do you have a live CD anywhere? Or a bootable DOS floppy disk? I'll make one tonight, and try re-installing LILO. Then I'll doubtless be on to the next problem, but it's a stage in the right direction. Thank you very much. > http://www.faqs.org/docs/lnag/lnag_lilo.html#LILO_stops -- Arlie (Arlie Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
