On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:59, Ronald van Haren <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > this morning I synced my old i686 laptop to testing, thereby upgrading the > kernel to 2.6.31 and such. I did so when I was in the train (I downloaded > the packages already at home) on the way to my internship. I rebooted the > system after the upgrade, but it won't start anymore. > It just hangs forever at the line 'waiting for udev uevents to be processed' > (although one of my tries actually went to checking filesystems before it > hanged and two times it hanged at 'loading modules'). > > Problem is I don't have a live cd or anything here and my laptop can't boot > from usb, but I really need some code and documents which are on my laptop > right now. I'm kinda lost here, but is there some way to accomplish this or > at least get into an early shell where I could mount an usb drive?
In the grub menu edit the kernel command line and add "break=y" to it. You should get to the dash shell of initramfs environment. I suggest using fallback kernel otherwise you may not get all filesystems supported. If your mkinitcpio image does not have usb hook you should be able to mount USB devices, I think. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
