Upgraded from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, and my machine won't boot

[Mark Phillips]

Well, I guessed correctly again......I ran aptitude install
linux-image-2.6-686, it installed 2.6.32, and X came up just like before.

Now to get the system upgraded to testing.....any
suggestions/recommendations beyond DON'T DO IT!...;-)

Mark

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> OK, progress has been made....
>
> 1. fsck said both internal drives were OK, but i forced it to run anyway.
> No errors
> 2. re-ran grub-install for the 5th time (?) and still no change....reboot
> goes right back to grub.
> 3. discovered that I could boot into 2.6.26 if I used the initrd-2.6.26.bak
> file. So did that. The files have different sizes and dates...
> 4. I looked at men.lst and found that it was trying to chainload into Grub
> 2. I couldn't get it to run from the grub menu, but then I booted into
> 2.6.26 and ran upgrade-from-grub-legacy. Hypothesis: the dist-upgrade was
> trying to move to grub 2 and so I had a 1/2 grub 1.98 and 1/2 grub 2
> install.....The grub 2 upgrade worked, and now I get my typical grub menu
> and I can select which linux version to boot into.
> 5. Booting 2.6.26 causes a kernel panic, but I suspect that is caused by
> the bad initrd-2.6.26 file. I seached Debian to find that file, but I could
> not. What package do I need to re-install to re-create the initrd-2.6.26? Or
> the latest kernel for squeeze is OK, too.
> 6. Fixed mysql problem. It seems during the dist-upgrade, mysql-server 5.0
> was removed, but not the client. So I reinstalled mysql for squeeze, and
> aptitude removed the 5.0 client and installed the 5.1 server/client/common
> and now it works just fine. All dbs and tables are intact.
> 7. Fixed some of the X problems - there were some font dirs missing, so
> mkfontdir removed those errors. But still no X yet. The error from gdm is:
> error inserting i915
> (/lib/modules/2.6.21-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/drm/i915.ko) unknown symbols
> in module or unknown parameter.
>
> I suspect that my X problem may go away if I reinstall kernel to 2.6.26, or
> later. I think something happened in the dsit-upgrade. So, how do I
> reinstall the kernel, or upgrade to a newer one?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 03/29/2011 09:54 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Kevin Fries <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/28/2011 06:01 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>>> It does say that this disk has probably been around for a while, and is
>>> likely the older drive that would use hda instead of sda.  But at the end of
>>> the day, its just a label that does not mean anything.
>>>
>>
>> Knoppix called the drives sda. My original menu.lst called the drives hda.
>> It is an older system, so I am sticking with hda for now.
>>
>>
>> Yea, that is part of the confusion.  Just FYI.  Historically, HDA was IDE
>> based systems.  SDA was SCSI based systems.  However, in modern days, these
>> lines have been blurred, badly.  Anything plugged into the USB bus is run
>> through the SCSI sub-systems, and therefore get labeled as SCSI.  Ditto that
>> for compact flash or SD cards.  Some distros, like Knoppix, for
>> simplification, run everything through the SCSI subsystem.  Therefore,
>> Knoppix will generally call EVERYTHING sda.  Knoppix is not unique, but not
>> the norm either.  But most importantly, you can not rely how one version of
>> linux labels the drives, as to how another version of linux will.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>
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