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
As suggested, I used the debian-installer in rescue mode and asked it to `Execute a shell in /dev/sda7', which is my Sid box. From that shell, I gave those commands suggested, but it said: # /dev: Is a directory and similarly for /sys and /proc. Then, when I typed `chroot /mnt bash', it said: chroot: failed to run command `bash': No such file or directory. Anyway, /dev/sda7 is there correctly mounted, and I can see it from /mnt. What now? Thanks, 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/878un0sqbf....@gmail.com