Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!
On Wed 06 Aug 2014 at 17:04:55 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
>
> > 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...
Never seen that behaviour. Is /dev/sda7 where you have your root file system?
Are you using the Wheezy installer?
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