On 09 Mar 2020, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 03:56:53PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On 07 Mar 2020, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> > [snip] 
> > 
> > > 
> > > will do as you suggest.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > This discussion is very interesting. The same thing happened to me
> > on 6 March, when after completing the upgrade my Dell Optiplex 3020
> > refused to boot. I assumed it was a hardware failure and spent the
> > next three days bringing up an older Acer n460 which the Dell had
> > replaced.
> > 
> > 
> > I don't have the facility at present to put the disk in another
> > machine so it looks like I'm stuck. 
> > 
> > 
> > Anthony
> > 
> > -- 
> > Anthony Campbell                    http://www.acampbell.uk
> > 
> 
> There are other ways: dd a miniroot to a usb stick, boot from that
> into boot> 
> boot the harddisk and do an upgrade. See the boot(8) man page for details.
> 
>       -Otto
> 
> 

Unfortunately I can't access the BIOS at all to tell it to boot from
the stick. Pressing F2 during boot is supposed to do this but I've
tried about a hundred times without success.

-- 
Anthony Campbell                        http://www.acampbell.uk

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