Thanks Chris, It's all on the same partition so I don't want to reinstall if I can help it. Some more info: I think the problem occurred because I installed upstart (using apt-get) and it didn't install everything it should have installed. I figure it can be fixed by reinstalling sysv-init, however... If I boot in recovery mode then it goes into single use mode with root mounted read only. I can remount it rw and run apt-get from but can't access a package repository because there is no cdrom driver loaded. Also I have a mirror of the repository on an external usb hard drive and could use that if I can figure out how to mount it. Does anyone have any advice about that? Glenn Chris O'Halloran wrote:
All I can add is that I failed to successfully update from Breezy to Dapper.
I used the alternative CD and followed the instructions carefully.
I ended up just installing Dapper over Breezy.
Hopefully you thought to back up your data and have /home on a separate partition. That makes a reinstall much easier but if you don't you might need to work with the command line for a bit longer to backup to data to another harddrive before starting again.
Of course, other gurus might have a few more clues. :)
Chris
On 22/03/07, Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> wrote:
Hi,
My attempt to upgrade my laptop from Dapper to Edgy has failed.
After booting it goes into single user mode and I assume that upstart is not installed correctly.
Does anyone know how to recover from this? I searched but so far haven't found anything helpful.
Glenn