On 09 Mar 2020, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 09 Mar 2020, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > Unfortunately I can't access the BIOS at all to tell it to boot from > the stick. Pressing F2 during boot is supposed to do this but I've > tried about a hundred times without success. >
Sorry, I misunderstood - I've just tried it out and I see that the Dell will boot from the stick without needing to be told to do so by the BIOS. I'll take that route. Apologies for the noise. Anthony > -- > Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.uk -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.uk
