On (06/07/05 11:00), Björn Johansson wrote: > Hello. > > I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook "Lombard G3" then I upgraded to > 3.1 stable > and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of > course). > If you went from unstable(sid) to stable (sarge), you 'downgraded' which is not recommended for mere mortals ...... I fear you may be experiencing why.
You could try booting off a live CD (knoppix, kanotix, debian from scratch) and see if you can repair what's broken; or at least you should be able to rescue some of your files prior to a reinstall. http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/dfs.html Regards Clive > This is is the text I get: > > ... ok > opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,264LTProB_ > > What should I do? This doesn't feel good at all. :-( > Should I reformat the harddrive and begin from scratch?? > I REALLY don't want to this, since I will lose some files, but if I haveto > I will do it. The system is now in an unusable state, is there no rescue > boot image where I can burn down somewhere and use? > > > Kind regards > Björn, Sweden > -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
