On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:29:34PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:09:02PM +0100, Kirsten Naylor wrote:
Ah, now, this is covered by the "check what the hell it's going to upgrade before it does" step :) Something like apt-get -s -u dist-upgrade to prepare you for the "next step", of course, for suggesting this step, quinophex shall now once again call me a wuss ;)
She does this already, I have taught her to be paranoid :)
/Kirsten, whose machine inexplicably lost its initrd.img and kernel panicked this time
Ahh - that's quinophex's fault, he's got some scripts that deliberately break your machine ;)
What happened was that he initrd had disappeared (not sure why, but hey!) anyhow my theory is that as she has a seperate /boot the initrd was deleted some time ago but as nothing gets written to /boot the blocks on disk containing the initrd were still there unmodified. What killed the box was the upgrade to lilo (well, it only killed 1 kernel, why backup kernels are a "good thing" (tm)) as it couldn't find the old initrd anymore but it had been quite happily booting not knowing that the initrd had been gone some time :)
Adam