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From: J G Miller on 2 Mar 2010 08:40
On Monday, 01 March 2010 22:44:29 -0800, Ant explained:

> On 3/1/2010 6:03 PM PT, J G Miller typed:
>
> >> Not yet.
> >
> > That is probably the cause of the problem of "unable to migrate to
> > dependency-based boot system".
>
> Ah. So this new dependency-based boot system is required in Kernel
> 2.6.32? This is news to me.

NO. It is not a requirement of the KERNEL but they way that the
DEBIAN systems organizes the /etc/init.d scripts which are run
after the kernel has loaded.

> Not that I know of. FYI if it helps:

No that does not help. What the problem appears to be is
that there is a script in there of an old format which does
not meet the Debian requirements for the dependency based boot
system. Probably some missing lines at the beginning saying
what is needed to have already been started before that script
starts.

> Yeah, but a bit technical to me. :/

Yes the boot up system is rather "technical" because of the
dependencies of which script has to run before something else is run.

If you cannot follow that, then it would seem your only real
option is to repartition and reinstall a new system, because
during the upgrade process you are going to encounter numerous
package upgrade failures which will need manual intervention
because of the change of how Debian did things in the old
version and how they do things in the new version.

So hang tight and wait until Squeeze is officially released.

<http://www.debian.ORG/releases/testing/>

Hope this helps ;)
From: Ant on 2 Mar 2010 11:05
On 3/2/2010 5:40 AM PT, J G Miller typed:

>> >> Not yet.
>> >
>> > That is probably the cause of the problem of "unable to migrate to
>> > dependency-based boot system".
>>
>> Ah. So this new dependency-based boot system is required in Kernel
>> 2.6.32? This is news to me.
>
> NO. It is not a requirement of the KERNEL but they way that the
> DEBIAN systems organizes the /etc/init.d scripts which are run
> after the kernel has loaded.
>
>> Not that I know of. FYI if it helps:
>
> No that does not help. What the problem appears to be is
> that there is a script in there of an old format which does
> not meet the Debian requirements for the dependency based boot
> system. Probably some missing lines at the beginning saying
> what is needed to have already been started before that script
> starts.
>
>> Yeah, but a bit technical to me. :/
>
> Yes the boot up system is rather "technical" because of the
> dependencies of which script has to run before something else is run.
>
> If you cannot follow that, then it would seem your only real
> option is to repartition and reinstall a new system, because
> during the upgrade process you are going to encounter numerous
> package upgrade failures which will need manual intervention
> because of the change of how Debian did things in the old
> version and how they do things in the new version.
>
> So hang tight and wait until Squeeze is officially released.
>
> <http://www.debian.ORG/releases/testing/>
>
> Hope this helps ;)

Thanks man! I will wait for the Squeeze. I will do like I did last time
and use net-install. Amusing how my XP Pro. installation is older than
this Debian box. I need to redo Windows too with 7 one of these days. :)
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