Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-12 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done. Hopefully someone repo

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-12 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done. Hopefully someone repo

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-12 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
This topic may be a few days old, but this is apparently exactly what happened to a server I admin remotely. When I upgraded to the new stable packages, I saw nothing that affected the kernel, therefore rerunning LILO didn't occur to me as something that needed to be done. Hopefully someone r

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Florian Ernst wrote: > MicheleM wrote: > > all worked fine untill I rebooted the machine and...ooops! The boot > > loader LILO failed with the "LI" code error. > > [...] > > But what did it happen? I think there is a bug somewhere. > > lilo should have detected it needed to be re-run and should ha

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-10 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello again, On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:54:32PM -0700, MicheleM wrote: > this is the output: > > anjuna:~# grep -A5 'lilo/runme' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat > Name: lilo/runme > Template: lilo/runme > Owners: lilo > > [...] > no more. Hm, strange, to me it looks like this question was never a

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-09 Thread MicheleM
Hi Flo, this is the output: anjuna:~# grep -A5 'lilo/runme' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat Name: lilo/runme Template: lilo/runme Owners: lilo Name: lilo/upgrade Template: lilo/upgrade Owners: lilo I grep the upgrade's typescript searching for the lilo prompt but this is what I found: anjuna:~# c

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:46:32PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Why do people insist on using LILO? Just install grub, [...] Advocacy is one thing, trying to find out why a bug has occurred another. Let's try not to mix things up. Cheers, Flo signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:08:08PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello *, > > > > > all worked fine untill I rebooted the machine and...ooops! The boot > > loader LILO failed with the "LI" code error. > > No way to boot the machine. I solved the problem with a knoppix live > > cd, I mounted the r

Re: Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:23:39AM -0700, MicheleM wrote: > yesterday I tried to upgrade my Woody production server to Sarge after > reading and following step by step the relase notes under: > http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html > > all worked fi

Release upgrade from Woody to Sarge failed reboot lilo problem

2005-06-09 Thread MicheleM
Hi there, yesterday I tried to upgrade my Woody production server to Sarge after reading and following step by step the relase notes under: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html all worked fine untill I rebooted the machine and...ooops! The boot loader LILO f