On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Paul Stear wrote: > Hi all, > I have updated 8.1 to 8.2 and all seemed to go well except when I rebooted > after update and selected linux from the menu I was left with an 'S' on the > screen, the hard disk activity light a constant red and no response. I tried > various things like nodevfs and just text lilo. > I then installed from scratch thinking that may be the problem but the result > is the same. > However, failsafe works - is that a clue?
Can you see at which point it fails? Does it get to the point that it's running any of the init scripts (you'll see a bunch of [OK] mssages on the screen)? If so try selectively turning off stuff like USB, sound, rawdisks, nfs, etc.. If you can't get to that point, try re-installing the kernel and re-running LILO. As you've also tried, turn off stuff like the fbconsole, devfs, hard drive optimizations, etc.. Check that your initrd is current and pointing to the correct image matching the kernel. Does the failsafe kernel point to the same image as the non-working image? Since it's *usually* the same kernel, check to make sure that both got updated correctly. Also, make sure that all the symlinks are current.
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