Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

From: B. L. Jilek (bljilek_at_crowbyte.dnsalias.com)
Date: 12/30/03

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    Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:57:49 +0900
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    Hi Josh!

    On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Josh Robinson wrote:

    > a problem:
    >
    > i updated my sources.list file, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. followed the
    > instructions on the screen. and rebooted.
    >
    > except now my box won't boot. i just get the characters LI (i think) in
    > the top left-hand corner of the screen, and nothing happens.
    >
    > what should i do?
    >

    http://www.linuxpeople.cc/howto/liloerrorshowto.htm?link

    Here is the readme for what lilo stops at on boot.

    As for finding out which partition is /, you could run fdisk from a
    rescue disk. This will tell you which partition is your swap
    partition. 

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