Dear Martin,
On 17/10/08 00:38, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> I will put the current text into the release notes subversion
> archive in the next 12 hours. You could then post diffs to the
> debian-doc mailing list or to the BTS. Is this OK for you?
you can find in attachment the patch to apply to
manuals/branches/release-notes/lenny/en/upgrading.dbk rev.5421 in order to
include the corrections proposed by Andrei Popescu.
--- upgrading.dbk 2008-10-18 16:15:13.000000000 +0200
+++ upgrading.dbk_new 2008-10-18 16:30:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -6585,15 +6585,6 @@
<section id="how-to-recover">
<title>How to recover from the problem after the
upgrade</title>
- <note>
- <title>Preliminary remark</title>
- <para>
- Once you have successfully applied one of the solutions below,
- you should consider applying one of the two appoaches above to
- get definitely rid of this issue.
- </para>
- </note>
-
<section id="solution1">
<title>Solution 1</title>
<para>
@@ -6644,30 +6635,9 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- If this solution worked. Login to your system, make a
- backup of the <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename>
- file. Then generate a new
- <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> by issuing with
- root privileges the command
<command>update-grub</command>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Edit <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> and make
- sure all occurences of
-
<literal>hd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal> were
- replaced by
-
<literal>sd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>. There
- is nothing wrong with the lines similar to:
-
- <screen>root (hd0,0)</screen>
-
- just leave it as it is.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Reboot your system, it should reboot correctly.
+ Now that your system has booted, you need to fix this issue
permanently.
+ Jump to the section "How to avoid the problem before upgrading" and
apply
+ one of the two proposed procedures.
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
@@ -6721,45 +6691,12 @@
which partition to mount).
</para>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Make a backup of the
- <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> file. Then
- generate a new <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename>
by
- issuing with root privileges the command
- <command>update-grub</command>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Edit <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> and make
- sure all occurences of
-
<literal>hd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>
- (<replaceable>X</replaceable> is a letter among
- <literal>a</literal>, <literal>b</literal>,
- <literal>c</literal> or
<literal>d</literal> depending of
- your system) were replaced by
-
<literal>sd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>. There
- is nothing wrong with the lines similar to:
-
- <screen>root (hd0,0)</screen>
-
- just leave it as it is.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Type <literal>exit</literal> to leave the rescue shell
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Select <literal>reboot</literal>, it should reboot
- correctly.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
+ <para>
+ Jump to the section "How to avoid the problem before upgrading" and
apply one
+ of the two proposed procedures to fix the problem parmanently. Then
type 'exit'
+ to leave the rescue shell and select 'reboot' for rebooting the system
as
+ usual. (Don't forget to remove the bootable media)
+ </para>
</section>
<section id="solution3">
@@ -6830,33 +6767,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- If it boots correctly, login, make a backup of the
- <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> file. Then
- generate a new <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename>
by
- issuing with root privileges the command
- <command>update-grub</command>
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Edit <filename>/boot/grub/menu.lst</filename> and make
- sure all occurences of
-
<literal>hd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>
- (<replaceable>X</replaceable> is a letter among
- <literal>a</literal>, <literal>b</literal>,
- <literal>c</literal> or
<literal>d</literal> depending of
- your system) were replaced by
-
<literal>sd<replaceable>X</replaceable></literal>. There
- is nothing wrong with the lines similar to:
-
- <screen>root (hd0,0)</screen>
-
- just leave it as it is.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Reboot your system, it should reboot correctly.
+ When it has booted, apply one of the two proposed procedures under
"How to
+ avoid the problem before upgrading" to fix the problem permanently.
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
