Jonathan Purvis wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:25:17 +1200 Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> wrote:
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.
I've had good luck booting from a live CD and running "chroot /mnt/hda1 /bin/bash" (changing /mnt/hda1 to wherever your hard disk is mounted). You may need to also run "source ~/.bash_profile" to get your prompt and paths set. From there you should be able to run apt-get or aptitude to install the files you need. You'll need to mount /dev and /proc to do things like reinstalling grub and i can't remember how to do that off the top of my head, but i'm sure someone else here does. You can use a Edgy, Dapper or even Knoppix live CD to do this with.
I knew there must have been an easier way than the way I did it, but then again I guess the overall amount of effort, in terms of manually mounting and configuring things, would have been about the same. It's good to know about that for next time, thanks. Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz