hey folks,
so, I am trying to update a sid system that hasn't seen much use for a
while, so I did an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had been running a 2.6.10
kernel, so the new udev wouldn't install properly and I ended up with
1500 incompletely installed packages. So, with a certain
amount of effort, I installed a 2.6.15 kernel & rebooted.
first sign something was wrong came when I found I couldn't ssh into
the system. fortunately there's a monitor attached, I found I could
log in andthat it had booted fine, but that, while partitions on my
scsi bus had mounted fine, none of the hda partitions had mounted
properly -- I assume because of udev problems. This may be jumping to
ocnclusions though; /dev/sda & /dev/sdb devices exist, but no /dev/hda
can be found. I've never had problems with that disk, though, and it
seemsunlikely it just failed right when I was installing an ew system!
unfortunately /var/cache/apt/archives is a symlink pointing to a
directory on another partition. since I can't mount that partition, I
can't run apt-get install -f, so can't install udev, so can't fix the
absence of device nodes which makes it impossible to mount the
partition which makes it impossible to run apt-get ...
So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or
temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the
/dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't
know how to do that.
Can anyone give me some advice?
thanks,
matt
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