On 22/03/11 04:53, Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Geronimo: >>> the last update of debian broke my system completely! >> >> I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you >> need to let off steam. > > Thank you very much! - usually I'm not that coarse.
The language doesn't offend - but this list goes out over radio where that language breaks the law. A tirade without any useful information on the actual problem does offend (especially around midnight). > >> Nevertheless I think this threads leads nowhere unless you are more specific >> about the hardware in use and what kind of upgrade you actually ran. Instead >> of insulting Debian developers you could try to help them get the problem >> fixed (or make them aware in the first place). Running through the gun club yelling fire will get you attention, but not the assistance you wish. >>> ... and now a system breaks on the fact of having an external SATA- >>> controller?!? Is that really so exotic, that no one tests that, before >>> moving packages into stable? You'll find the grub(2) developers would, if they could. The firmware is part of the issue.... See the first couple of results from this:- http://www.google.com/search?q=RocketRAID+230&hl=en&num=10&lr=lang_en&ft=i&cr=&safe=off&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dlinux=&tbs=qdr:y Kudos for not dumping and running. Aside from the other worthy suggestions made by more informed posters than myself - there is grub-legacy. Note:- my upgrade experiences have not been trouble-free - I was cursing the lack of documentation on kde-plasma-netbook until dawn. But I have not upgraded my main work machines, and will not for while security updates continue - a lesson learned back in the floppy install days. And, as I'm sure you've been told, stable means feature frozen - not perfect or error free. Sometimes it's just a way to force developers to pay attention to bug-reports instead of endlessly adding new features (ie no more moving the f*&#ing goal posts) Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
