Hi all,
I did something stupid and now don't know how to recover gracefully.
I intended to install a new kernel for use in a vm, but actually
installed the one for dom0 because I installed the wrong packagename.
The result is that Qubes does not boot but sends the machine into an
endless boot -> panic -> reboot ... loop.
The error message that flashes past says "tried to kill init" followed
by a dump of some kind that flicks past too fast to read
The docs tell me how to edit what file in order to correct the failure
to boot, at
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/software-update-dom0/#changing-default-kernel
but they do not tell me how to boot in order to issue the nano
command. I have also discovered that until Qubes 5 there is no plan to
bring in a boot menu with recovery options, as is provided for systems
still booting with grub2.
Am I right in assuming that until Qubes 5 there is no solution within
the Qubes system? Meaning that I will need to boot with Knoppix or
some other live distro ??
Or is there a more elegant route back to a working Qubes system?
If it is in the docs somewhere else, then please post a link to it
because I couldn't find it despite searching.
I think there should be slightly more in the docs than I could find
and am prepared to do the edit, but before I do that I want to know I
am making the most elegant suggestion.
I intend to update the docs in the section linked above sometime after
0500 UTC on 30th November and would welcome a heads-up by then if your
idea is more elegant that using Knoppix.
In the meantime, I am going to use Knoppix right now because a
solution I know beats an elegant one I didn't think of...
Warmly
River~~
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