On Friday 26 April 2002 16:54, you wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Paul Stear wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have updated 8.1 to 8.2 and all seemed to go well except when I > > rebooted after update and selected linux from the menu I was left with an > > 'S' on the screen, the hard disk activity light a constant red and no > > response. I tried various things like nodevfs and just text lilo. > > I then installed from scratch thinking that may be the problem but the > > result is the same. > > However, failsafe works - is that a clue? > > Can you see at which point it fails? Does it get to the point that it's > running any of the init scripts (you'll see a bunch of [OK] mssages on > the screen)? If so try selectively turning off stuff like USB, sound, > rawdisks, nfs, etc.. > > If you can't get to that point, try re-installing the kernel and > re-running LILO. As you've also tried, turn off stuff like the > fbconsole, devfs, hard drive optimizations, etc.. Check that your initrd > is current and pointing to the correct image matching the kernel. > Does the failsafe kernel point to the same image as the non-working > image? Since it's *usually* the same kernel, check to make sure that > both got updated correctly. Also, make sure that all the symlinks are > current.
Hi again, Lilo stops as soon as it starts i.e. starting linux ..... What is the difference when running failsafe? The image and kernel are the same, the only difference is the word Failsafe. If some kind person could enlighten me maybe it will point me in the right direction. regards Paul
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