On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 03:56:53PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 07 Mar 2020, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > [snip] > > > > > will do as you suggest. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > This discussion is very interesting. The same thing happened to me > on 6 March, when after completing the upgrade my Dell Optiplex 3020 > refused to boot. I assumed it was a hardware failure and spent the > next three days bringing up an older Acer n460 which the Dell had > replaced. > > > I don't have the facility at present to put the disk in another > machine so it looks like I'm stuck. > > > Anthony > > -- > Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.uk >
There are other ways: dd a miniroot to a usb stick, boot from that into boot> boot the harddisk and do an upgrade. See the boot(8) man page for details. -Otto