Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:

N> 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?

Well, no, I'm using Lenny installer.

Rodolfo