To wit: I did an Debian upgrade on my laptop last night/this morning from Woody to Sarge. Seemed to go all okay. Made me miss my normal train, but I could get the next okay (got an inter-urban carriage, somewhat surprisingly... mmm. comfortable seats...).

However. Just before I left home, I checked it would still boot. Uh. "LI_". That means no. :-( And this laptop has problems booting from some CD-ROMs, too. *sigh* Well, it was coming into work today, anyway.

Fortunatly, I knew how to make a Debian rescue floppy. Or at least how to find out how.

It turns out that my /boot partition was completely empty. Which was odd. It booted off it okay last night. That was after I discovered it wasn't even mounted and I know lilo can't load a kernel of a reiser partition very well. I suspect, in my wisdom, I had removed the /boot partition from my fstab. And had forgotten this. I still don't know if or how /boot (on /) was correct, but I'm glad it was!

My laptop boots properly again, now.

Wade.