On Wednesday 06 July 2005 13.02, Arias Hung wrote: > Bad move. You mean you 'downgraded' to stable since stable uses much older > packages than unstable. > > Use a rescue cd ... take your pick ... knoppix, kanotix, sysresccd, any of > the gentoo live cd's. Boot that cd, then mount the partition with the > files you want to save. Grab those. Then, if you made a backup of your > older filesystem before you upgraded then you can mount that and replace > the 'upgraded' filesystem. You did make backups didn't you? If not, then > after grabbing the files you didn't want to lose ... start for scratch ... > and don't attempt something so foolish again. > > On Wed, 06 Jul 2005, Björn Johansson delivered in simple text monotone: > > 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). > > > > 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 > > Bj�rn, Sweden > > <---Snip--->
I can use an old kernel which was installed. So everything is pretty good now! :-) I can't use the newest kernel and I probably should reinstall the whole system anyway to get rid of some bugs, but now it works again, so I have the option of making a total backup of the whole system before I will attempt a full reinstall of the system. Thanks for the help btw. :-) Kind regards Björn
