Using the standard upgrade proceedures, Debian Etch + LVM will fail to upgrade to Debian Lenny gracefully. This is due to the kernel modules and is simple to avoid. Before changing apt sources (They should be etch) apt-get update apt-get upgrade reboot if kernel upgrades Now change your apt sources (Lenny or Stable) apt-get update [...]
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LVM Breaks When Upgrading Debian Etch to Lenny 4.x to 5.0
April 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Debian Key Signing Bug: NO_PUBKEY
September 6th, 2007 · No Comments
There appears to be a bug in Debian’s key signing system. Depending on your apt sources you may run in to packages signed by a key that Debian doesn’t like. Annoyingly, these are Debian-signed packages, but unless you want to fix it, here is a workaround. http://non-us.debian.org is a repository signed with F1D53D8C4F368D5D, but Debian [...]
Debian-based machines and the (initramfs) prompt
August 9th, 2007 · No Comments
There are a million pages devoted to initramfs so I won’t go in to what it is, but if you have a Dell 1655 or other machine with serial-attached-SCSI and use Debian or a Debian-derived Linux distribution such as Ubuntu or Kbuntu, you may have run in to an issue booting after installing a kernel [...]