Locked up boot after failed update
Andrew Farris
lordmorgul at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 00:52:46 UTC 2008
Jim Cornette wrote:
> After applying updates to the computer yesterday, I came back to the
> computer to check on the progress of the machine. X had a white box
> where the gnome-terminal was and the only other thing on the screen was
> the mouse. No panels, no text.
> Since the ctl-alt sequence was not working due to the keyboard problem,
> I could not change to a VT so was stuck with killing the computer unclean.
> Anyway, now I can only boot up to the unmounting old root and these
> prompts. How would you be able to pass these process and boot into a
> single user mode or maintenance mode? Single user failed the same way as
> other runlevels.
>
> Jim
>
Boot the machine with a rescue mode cd or other Live cd and fsck the partitions
in the install, then try booting it again.
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