The last few days I have been upgrading to hamm. I rebooted my computer and it died badly. Instead of coming up with lilo, it repeatedly typed:
LI LI LI LI LI LI ...etc down the screen. It looks like the boot sector has been corrupted or something like that, but I don't know what I've done which could have caused that! Let me give a summary of what I did: 1. I ran autoup.sh - it had all sorts of complaints, but they seemed to stem from one particular package that needed upgrading - I upgraded this package and then reran autoup.sh and everything seemed to run smoothly. 2. I then ran dselect to upgrade my system to hamm (I have mirrored most of hamm on a hard disk.) The first few times this failed right at the start - it seems a perl package I had mirrored had problems - but running mirror a day or two later downloaded a new version of this package and that seemed to fix the problem. 3. Running dselect install several times seemed to install most things successfully, but there were a number of packages it had errors with. In fact it eventually died, complaining that there had been problems with too many packages to continue. 4. I remember the autoup.README had said that I should reboot the machine and then change a couple of things. I thought I should do this. Although not everything had installed properly, I figured enough had for now. Now I think about it, probably none of the packages had been configured! Still I don't know how this would affect the boot sector? 5. Anyway, I closed down everything and typed sync followed by ctr-alt-del. It stopped various processes, but didn't reboot as normal. Instead it hung. So I hit the reset button and then had the LI LI LI... problem described above. 6. I put in my custom boot floppy and tried that, but it had a kernel panic, complaining that it couldn't mount the root filesystem! 7. I tried finding my debian installation disks. I found a rescue disk, but can't find a root disk! Now I am up the creek without a paddle! My machine seems completely stuffed and I've got little idea what to do, or what is wrong. (I also need to use my machine - obviously I can't.) The only thing I can think to do is to download a bo root disk, somehow get e2fsck, and see if that fixes my root partition (which actually contains almost everything including /home and /usr) Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, Mark. __________________________________________________________________________ _\________/___\______/___________________________Mark_Phillips___________/ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ____\__/HE___\__/------APTAIN/ ________________________________ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/______/ /__"To be is to do."__I. Kant___/ ____\__/______\______/_______/ /__"To do is to be."__A. Sartre_/ /__"I am."____________God_______/ /__Jesus did.___________________/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]