>> On Friday 08 October 2004 02:40, Howard Chin wrote: >> I installed woody using the stable distribution a few weeks ago. Recently >> I decided to upgrade to the testing distribution because the packages are >> more up-to-date in that distribution. >> So I changed the apt source in /etc/apt/source.list and replace the word >> "stable" with "testing" in the http entry. >> I then used dselect to update the package list and installed all the >> recommended packages and upgrades. >> After the upgrade, I can no longer boot. The system hang right after the >> BIOS screen with only "Li" printed. Seemed like something went wrong with >> the bootloader. Can someone let me know how it can be fixed? >> Howard > > Hi Howard, > > According to the Lilo man page, the first stage loader tried to pass control > to the second stage loader, but it detected an error. Are any hex digits > printed after the LI? If so, they give information about the nature of the > error.
First thanks for your response, Justin; but no unfortunately, there is nothing after LI > > It is very unusual that upgrading your software would cause boot problems of > this nature. Did you change any hardware configuration? Did you install a > new kernel? No. The HW has not changed. I am not sure if the kernel is upgraded or not. I didn't check the dselect list of SW upgrade. However, it doesn't look like the kernel has been loaded yet at the failing point. If I am not mistaken, I think lilo itself may have been upgraded. I am not sure about this but I think I saw some messages about upgrading lilo scrolled past the screen. I think the first thing I will need is to mount the HD so that I can have access to the HD. I can boot using a CD to a shell. There are a few important files that I want to rescue. If I can do that, the worse case is to reinstall the system which I can afford to do since I have only been building up my server and have not put it to any real work yet. I am newish to linux and am not quite sure how to mnt the HD. It will be much appreciated if someone can let me know how. Thanks. Howard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]