[Tfug] Noobie Problems with Upgrade to Sarge

[Charles R Kiss]

I think my lilo is messed up;  I stupidly typed "lilo" at the boot 
prompt after the "aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade" because 
the kernel installation didn't know where to place the mbr; I panicked!! 
I read the docs and am having some trouble, I'm sure things are fine; I 
changed it about ten times;  here is the lilo warnings and the lilo.conf 
is as it appears now:

*house:/boot# lilo*
Warning: /dev/hdb is not on the first disk
Added Linux *
Added WindowsXP
Syntax error at or above line 13 in file '/etc/lilo.conf'


*lilo.conf:*

*charles at house:~$ cat /etc/lilo.conf*
boot=/dev/hdb
root=/dev/hdb5
prompt
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label = Linux
read-write
other=/dev/hda1
label = WindowsXP
initrd=/initrd.img

*here is fdisk -l*

*house:/home/charles# fdisk -l*

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2551        7296    38122245    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5            2551        7296    38122213+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 137.4 GB, 137438952960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16709 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1           1        8001   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2               2       16709   134207010    5  Extended
/dev/hdb5               2        7295    58589023+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb6            7296       14590    58597056    6  FAT16
/dev/hdb7           14591       15441     6835626   82  Linux swap / Solaris

*/dev/hda is my WindowsXP partition, which /IS/ the first disk.

here is uname (because I'm booting from the floppy):
*Linux house 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux*

Here are the files contained in / (minus the directories):
*initrd.img     
initrd.img.old
vmlinuz*
*vmlinuz.old

*I'm still learning about the new initrd process; I guess it boots off 
RAM which is loaded from somewhere.  I'll figure that out.

Here are the files contained in /boot**:

*System.map-2.6.8-2-686
System.map-2.6.11-1-686
System.map-2.4.18-bf2.4
boot.0300 
boot.0341
boot.0345
boot.b
coffee.bmp              
config-2.4.18-bf2.4
config-2.6.11-1-686
config-2.6.8-2-686
debian.bmp
debianlilo.bmp
initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686
initrd.img-2.6.11-1-686
map
sarge.bmp
sid.bmp
vmlinuz-2.6.11-1-686
vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 
vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686

*I had downloaded a couple kernels because I didn't know what I was doing.

Using the new aptitude:
*
*house:/boot# aptitude --version*
aptitude 0.2.15.9 compiled at Apr  7 2005 13:32:48
Compiler: g++ 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)

NCurses version: 5.4
libsigc++ version:


*Whatever I did seems to have upgraded all the packages, but because 
lilo is messed up, I have to use the old kernel on floppy to boot up.   
(*I sure like the new g++3.3.5 !!!  Looks sweet!!*)

The wierd thing is that my desktop is now in GNOME; I never used GNOME, 
but somehow that's what I get when I boot up with my old floppy.  I 
kinda like gnome. All the packages are new, including openoffice, but 
which doesn't open (ofcourse).

The processor is AMD Athlon (no further information is gnown here, circa 
2003).

I'll spare you the /var/log/ files' contents.

I want to eventually get the new X.org xserver on the new Sarge 2.6 kernel.

Miss you all,
*
Charles


ps.  It's quite interesting here, water is actually falling from the sky 
in the form of small droplets (I swear!), saturating all the surfaces 
below, including the trees, the rooftops, and the roadways.




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