Brian wrote:
> On Mon 20 Jun 2016 at 13:06:30 +0200, Michael Lange wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:43:35 +0200
>> Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote:
>>
>> > deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote:
>> >
>> > >> I am attempting to install jessie on a Dell Poweredge R815. It has
>> > >> been running wheezy reliably for years. And running squeeze reliably
>> > >> for years before that. But no matter what I try it won't install or
>> > >> boot.
>> >
>> > > why is an upgrade not an option?
>> >
>> > Upgrade to what? He wants to install Jessie, you can't get a newer
>> > stable Debian than that.
>>
>> I guess he meant a dist-upgrade from an installed wheezy to jessie, if
>> jessie won't do a fresh install.
>
> I think the OP's attempt at a dist-upgrade was described in item 2 of
> his first mail.
The problem is the kernel and some other changes that cause troubles.
Upgrade usually is done by
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
I failed today to upgrade wheezy to jessie on raided system as well.
The kernel/initramfs is the key to this and perhaps eliminate systemd first
time booting after the upgrade.
In the initramfs shell I usually
1. check if disks are found (might be /dev/[hs]d* are missing.
2. mount the root partition (in the example to dir called new) and
3. run
cd /new
exec /usr/sbin/chroot . /bin/sh <<- EOF >dev/console 2>&1
exec /sbin/init ${CMDLINE}
EOF
4. when system is up update initram
update-initramfs
This magic worked always
It is a bit more complicated if you use raid, lvm and luks, but still it
comes to the magic at the end
I hope this helps
regards
