Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
I have regained access to several debian 8 vms using this method, Yes, it still works. On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
On 06/26/2015 04:12 PM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: Not the case. Even in rescue mode I needed to supply the root login. I could use init=/bin/sh but I couln't find anything in the logs in /var/log, so I'm guessing systemd and journalctl keeps the journal in some other place (probably some binary

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
On 06/26/2015 12:55 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: well and good until you find yourself in the situation this very thread is about: your root filesystem is broken and you can only log in as root. Then you need your root password. Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu,

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread Nick T.
On 06/26/2015 03:59 PM, The Wanderer wrote: (Please don't top-post.) On 06/26/2015 at 08:49 AM, Nick T. wrote: On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub menu, from there it asks

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had to add that to make the driver work. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:45 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub as root. - Nick On 06/10/2015 10:55 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Try adding nomodeset to the boot command if its not already there, I had

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
nomodeset goes inside the quotes derp :P GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet nomodeset - Nick On 06/10/2015 11:23 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 11/06/2015, Nick T. n...@ncktsp.com wrote: Edit /etc/default/grub as root and append nomodeset to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT save exit and run update-grub

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-10 Thread Nick T.
Oops, forgot to cc in the mailing list. - Nick On 06/10/2015 09:19 PM, Nick T. wrote: Install build-essential it should contain all the packages necessary to install the driver. Also you might want to install dkms if you don't want to reinstall the driver after every kernel update. - Nick