> If it got to "init 3", then it mounted to root filesystem. Why is it > going to stage 3 though? Normal boot is stage 2.
It seems to have mounted the filesystem ok, just not read-write. Mirko's workaround got me a bootable machine but I suspect that this will continue to cause problems. I notice that apt-get is holding back quite a few packages just now. Are others also experiencing this? Is there any way (bar uninstalling a lot of current packages) that I can get these to update or are we waiting for more packages to hit the "unstable" tree before these can be updated? Again, any help would be much appreciated, Euan. sparc:~# apt-get -u upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-panel-data gnumeric kappfinder kate kcalc kcoloredit kcontrol kdeaddons kdeartwork kdeartwork-style kdeartwork-theme-window kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-kio-plugins kdelibs kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 kdelibs4-dev kdeprint kdesktop kdm kfind khelpcenter kicker klipper kmenuedit konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konsole kpager kpersonalizer kscreensaver ksmserver ksplash kstars ksysguard ksysguardd ktip kview kwin libarts1 libarts1-dev libdbi-perl libenchant1 libkonq4 libldap2 libmetacity0 libxcursor-dev libxcursor1 libxft-dev libxft2 libxrender-dev libxrender1 ntp-simple quanta r-base-core render-dev umbrello vim x-window-system-core xbase-clients xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev xlibmesa3 xlibs xlibs-dev xlibs-pic xterm 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 70 not upgraded.
