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