Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> Gary Dale wrote:
>> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> >My Debian Sid box won't restart after today's full-upgrade. At booting, I
>> >read
>
> Sid is the unstable child...
>
>> To get back into your system, you can try booting from a Linux CD (system
>> rescue CD, for example) and trying to debug from there. For example, you
>> could try (assuming your Linux drive is /dev/sda1):
>>
>> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
>> mount -o loop /dev /mnt/dev
>> mount -o loop /sys /mnt/sys
>> mount -o loop /proc /mnt/proc
>> chroot /mnt bash
>
> I also recommend the debian-installer in rescue mode. The above will
> work fine. Or you could use the debian-installer in rescue mode to
> guide you through this.
>
> Here is the official documentation for it:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s07.html.en
>
> But that is fairly terse. Let me say that the rescue mode looks just
> like the install mode initially. It will ask you keyboard and locale
> questions and you might wonder if you are rescuing or installing! But
> it will have "Rescue" in the corners so that you can tell and be
> assured. Get the tool set up with keyboard, locale, timezone, and
> similar and eventually it will give you a menu with a list of actions.
>
> Advanced options...
> Rescue mode
> keyboard
> ...starts networking...
> hostname
> domainname
> ...apt update release files...
> ...loading additional components, Retrieving udebs...
> ...detecting disks...
>
> Then eventually it will get to a menu "Enter rescue mode" that will
> ask what device to use as a root file system. It will list the
> partitions that it has automatically detected. (If you have raid or
> lvm then it will list options for those. If not then just the simple
> disks.) Select the appropriate partition from the list. Then
> continue. At that point it presents a menu "Execute a shell in
> /dev/...". That is what you want. That should get you a shell on
> your system with everything needed mounted.
>
> Bob
Thanks. In debian-installer rescue mode: I choose
`Execute a shell in /dev/sda7',
and then:
`After this message, you will be given a shell with /dfev/sda7 mounted on
"/"...'
I press enter, and it gets back to the previous: `Execute a shell in
/dev/sda7'. I press enter, and again to `After this message...' and so on and
so on...
Rodolfo
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