On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:42:59AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (06/07/05 11:00), Björn Johansson wrote:
Hello.
I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook Lombard G3 then I upgraded to
3.1 stable
and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of
course).
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:02:03AM -0700, Arias Hung wrote:
Bad move. You mean you 'downgraded' to stable since stable uses much older
packages than unstable.
Hi I did something recently like this, but It is not always a 'true'
downgrade. I had a 'sid' pc but the last update was 6 months a
On (06/07/05 11:00), Björn Johansson wrote:
Hello.
I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook Lombard G3 then I upgraded to
3.1 stable
and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of
course).
If you went from unstable(sid) to stable (sarge), you 'downgraded'
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:00:40AM +0200, Björn Johansson wrote:
Hello.
I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook Lombard G3 then I upgraded to
3.1 stable
and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of
course).
This is is the text I get:
... ok
opening
Bad move. You mean you 'downgraded' to stable since stable uses much older
packages than unstable.
Use a rescue cd ... take your pick ... knoppix, kanotix, sysresccd, any of the
gentoo live cd's. Boot that cd, then mount the partition with the files you
want to save. Grab those. Then, if
Now it works again! I don't know how good the system is right now,
but I'm investigating... It seems okay.
To boot the system again I simply boot with the kernel: old.
Jihoo! :-D
But it would be nice if the new kernel would work good also..
Kind regards Björn, Sweden
On (06/07/05 12:47), Björn Johansson wrote:
Now it works again! I don't know how good the system is right now,
but I'm investigating... It seems okay.
To boot the system again I simply boot with the kernel: old.
Jihoo! :-D
But it would be nice if the new kernel would work good also..
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 13.02, Arias Hung wrote:
Bad move. You mean you 'downgraded' to stable since stable uses much older
packages than unstable.
Use a rescue cd ... take your pick ... knoppix, kanotix, sysresccd, any of
the gentoo live cd's. Boot that cd, then mount the partition with
Quoting Bjorn Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[snip]
I can use an old kernel which was installed.
So everything is pretty good now! :-)
I can't use the newest kernel and I probably should reinstall the whole system
anyway to get rid of some bugs, but now it works again, so I have the option
of
You never mentioned anything about a kernel upgrade. In your prior message you
mentioned changing distros from unstable to stable. It helps if you can be
very precise if anyone is to know what your problem is.
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005, Björn Johansson delivered in simple text monotone:
Now it
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