I did a fresh install of minimal debian squeeze.
Then I did the dist-upgrade to debian wheezy.
Then I cleaned out all of the old squeeze code still hanging around
Then I did a wheezy update.
And then I followed the dev1fanboy instructions for the dist-upgrade
from wheezy to devuan jessie.
And it worked! Using lilo too.

DaveT

On 02/10/16 17:28, Dave Turner wrote:
> I installed a very minimal debian squeeze.
>
> Did a dist-upgrade to a very minimal wheezy.
>
> And then followed the dev1fanboy instructions for the dist-upgrade
> from wheezy to devuan jessie.
>
> It all seemed to go so well until I rebooted.
>
> The usual messages whizzed past in a very large font, then the usual
> blank screen before it comes back with a nice small font, but,
> nothing! Just a blank screen.
>
> Is it possible my wheezy installation was a bit too minimal?
>
> Or maybe my /boot partition was bit too small? I set it at 256MB.
>
> All suggestions welcome.
>
> And as an FYI - dist-upgrade from squeeze to devuan-jessie fails. You
> have to go via wheezy.
>
> DaveT
>
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