Bob Proulx <b...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87mwbheeh4....@gmail.com