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Post subject: d-u upgrade help
 Posted: Oct 13, 2006 - 04:07 AM
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Joined: Jul 15, 2006
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Location: Spanaway, Wa
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If this is in the wrong place, I am sorry. Please move to the right spot.
I had some problems and screwed up my harddrive. No biggie, my mistake. Easy way, used liveCD and wiped it, reinstalled Kanotix 2006-1-RC4. After I rebooted into the hdd version I amended my sources list, got h2' script then I ctrl-alt-f1 and ran the script. During this I updated the kernel, ran the script again and at the end installed radeon drivers. When the script finished, I did fix-res and rebooted. I received this message:
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GRUB loading, please wait...
graphics file "(hd0.0)/boot/message" missing, press a key to continue
When I pressed a key I was taken to a text grub menu. I let it auto select and ended with a text login. After logging in I entered "startx" to try for a gui. This brought me to a basic gui, no background and a debian menu.
How do I get back to the Kanotix grub and login?
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Post subject: RE: d-u upgrade help
Posted: Oct 13, 2006 - 04:27 AM
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Joined: Mar 12, 2005
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Don't worry, it's just a matter of creating a symbolic link, in this case:
ln -s message.hd /boot/message
that's it, and you should see the happy penguins again. But it sounds like somehow or other your whole kanotix graphics package failed to install. I've done a few rc4 installs now, with updating from my script, and I haven't seen this issue.
But this sounds like kanotix graphics for some reason failed, my script does not deal with kanotix graphics unless you are using less than 2006-1 |
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Posted: Oct 13, 2006 - 06:11 AM
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h2,
Thanks, I opened xterm, su'ed and enter what you said. The response was File exists. I had kanotix up and running and everything was fine. Could I have messed up something while running the script? The only error message was something to do with compiz package.
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Posted: Oct 14, 2006 - 12:08 AM
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| If you're using experimental stuff like beryl or compiz you are on your own, I wouldn't put that on a primary install, though I have tried compiz and beryl on a test install. |
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Posted: Oct 14, 2006 - 06:41 PM
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Thanks h2. I think that was part of the problem. I tried to install compiz right after the d-u. Learned a lesson there. Also, when I tried to start kde, most of it was missing. I think I over cleaned. Oh well, another lesson there. I ended up just reinstalling and doing another d-u then using the system. Everything works okay now.
Thanks for your help,
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