Re: JFTA? (was Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed)

2010-10-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 26 oct 10, 09:29:31, francis southern wrote: > On 26 October 2010 03:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 10/26/2010 02:42 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> > >> On Lu, 25 oct 10, 22:56:03, lrhorer wrote:08:16 <@morrow> (i assume?) > > > It might be related to modesetting, which can be dis

JFTA? (was Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed)

2010-10-26 Thread francis southern
On 26 October 2010 03:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/26/2010 02:42 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> On Lu, 25 oct 10, 22:56:03, lrhorer wrote:08:16 <@morrow> (i assume?) It might be related to modesetting, which can be disabled by kernel parameters. >>> >>> OK, which parameters.  A

JFTA? (was Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed)

2010-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/26/2010 02:42 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 25 oct 10, 22:56:03, lrhorer wrote: It might be related to modesetting, which can be disabled by kernel parameters. OK, which parameters. A syntax example would help. JFTA, as far as I know it depends on your hardware, of which you told n

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed

2010-10-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 25 oct 10, 22:56:03, lrhorer wrote: > > > > It might be related to modesetting, which can be disabled by kernel > > parameters. > OK, which parameters. A syntax example would help. JFTA, as far as I know it depends on your hardware, of which you told nothing so far. Regards, Andrei --

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed

2010-10-25 Thread lrhorer
lrhorer wrote: > > Well, this is the third or fourth upgrade to Squeeze from > Lenny I have > attempted, and they all have been painful. This one has failed, > though. I upgraded and got everything working, but then I decided to > clean up a bit. I did a couple of runs of `apt-

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed

2010-10-25 Thread lrhorer
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 24 oct 10, 23:52:40, lrhorer wrote: > >> machine. Grub comes up, and if I let it boot to Windows, it works, >> but if I select Linux (normal or recovery), very shortly after >> starting to >> boot the video output from the machine just dies. I don't mean it >> goes

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed

2010-10-25 Thread lrhorer
Mark Allums wrote: > On 10/24/2010 11:52 PM, lrhorer wrote: >> >> Well, this is the third or fourth upgrade to Squeeze from >> Lenny I have >> attempted, and they all have been painful. This one has failed, >> though. I upgraded and got everything working, but then I decided to

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed

2010-10-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/24/2010 11:52 PM, lrhorer wrote: Well, this is the third or fourth upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny I have attempted, and they all have been painful. This one has failed, though. I upgraded and got everything working, but then I decided to clean up a bit. I did a couple of runs of

RE: Upgrade to Squeeze failed

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Nickels
.. > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:35:35 +0300 > From: andreimpope...@gmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed > > On Du, 24 oct 10, 23:52:40, lrhorer wrote: > > > machine. Grub comes up, and if I let it boot to Windows, it works

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed

2010-10-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 24 oct 10, 23:52:40, lrhorer wrote: > machine. Grub comes up, and if I let it boot to Windows, it works, but > if I select Linux (normal or recovery), very shortly after starting to > boot the video output from the machine just dies. I don't mean it goes > blank, I mean the video goes away

Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed

2010-10-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
lrhorer put forth on 10/24/2010 11:52 PM: > > Well, this is the third or fourth upgrade to Squeeze from Lenny I have > attempted, and they all have been painful. This one has failed, > though. I upgraded and got everything working, but then I decided to > clean up a bit. I did a couple