Hello, How did you add the the usb drive as a repository? Or is that even what you did? Or by running aptitude dist-upgrade in the same directory did that pick it up? Just curiuos to know how you rescued the system. On 22/03/07, Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> wrote:
Glenn Ramsey wrote:
Craig Box wrote:
After booting it goes into single user mode and I assume that upstart is not installed correctly. Dapper to Edgy requires two aptitude dist-upgrades to install upstart. Are you waiting on the second?
Probably, I didn't realise that, but now the machine isn't in a state where that can happen easily.
Glenn
I managed to get the upgrade completed by mounting a usb drive containing a repository mirror from single use mode. I imagine the same could be done for a cdrom.
For those who are reading this in the archives, here's what I did...
Remount / read-write
$mount -o remount,rw /
Load the usb-storage module
$modprobe usb-storage
Make dev nodes
$mknod /dev/sdb b 8 16 $mknod /dev/sdb1 b 8 17
Mount the drive (/media/sdb1 already exists)
$mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1
Upgrade
$aptitude dist-upgrade
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