On 6/13/05, Josh Trutwin <trutwijd at yahoo.com> wrote: > I was undergoing my second woody->sarge upgrade - > after the upgrade was complete I rebooted to find the > LILO error code "LI". You don't _need_ to upgrade your kernel but if you do, you need to edit lilo.conf and rerun lilo. Sarge will work just fine with your existing kernel (at least in my experience with a 2.4.x kernel). You do need to have CONFIG_TMPFS=y in your kernel though because /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs requires it. The system will boot and function just fine but you'll see mount bitch several times during the boot process. I ran into the same "LI" issue when I upgraded my kernel. I have a cdrom drive so I just booted an old woody CD into rescue mode, mounted my root partition and re-ran lilo. If you upgrade lilo to the sarge version, you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf; the "install=" section changed. It used to be install=/boot/boot.b, now you use install=text (or bmp, or menu) depending on what you want. You might want to review the release notes before your next upgrade, especially the section on "before you reboot": http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-nownownow If lilo worked before on your hardware, there's no need switch to grub or install Fedora over Debian. This was my first major Debian update and I think it was the smoothest *nix OS upgrade I've ever done. Scot