I use stable etch on my work machine, but decided to try dist-upgrade from etch to lenny on a machine I don't need so much.
I changed etch to lenny in my sources list. The packages seemed to download okay, but during installation or configuration, when it got to hald . . . (configuring or installing) it just hung there for 10 or 20 minutes. I rebooted. The new kernel stopped with: VFS cannot open root device "sdb1" or unknown block (0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are available partitions. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown block. I can boot into the other, older kernel but many things are broken. If I try to go into Synaptic, it says I need to dpkg --configure -a. When I do that, it says: Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.15) and just hangs there. What next? Can I simply do dist-upgrade again and see if it sticks the second time? Thanks for any help. RD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
