On 22 Jan, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 20:22 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 21 Jan, luke wrote: > > > Any advice would be most welcome. > > Dont do 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' - for two reasons: > > Firstly, a failed update is not something you want to upgrade from, so > doing 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' would be safer. > > Secondly, 'apt-get upgrade' does not add or remove packages, and when a > kernel version changes, you may well want additional related packages. > Its better to do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for incremental upgrades within > a distribution. > > In terms of recovering your system, it should be as simple as booting a > live CD. When the prompt appears, do > > 'live root=/dev/md0' or something similar - I can't remember the exact > syntax offhand - but that will get you booted.
Thanks for the reply, Robert. (It's been a rough week at work, so I hadn't had a chance to get back to the problem until today.) I've tried your suggestion, after I worked out how to supply the boot options (hit F6), but despite changing the root=/dev/ram to root=/dev/md0, eventually I get to a screen where it asks me to choose the device to use for the root partition (instead of using /dev/md0), and the only choices are the raw partitions. I *could* choose /dev/discs/disc0/part7 (/dev/hda7, which is half of /dev/md0), but I worry that doing so would mess up the raid.. Initially I forgot to insert "live" and just changed root=/dev/ram to root=/dev/md0. Later I added "live" as the first of the boot options. It didn't seem to make much difference. Either way it ends up asking me the same question. > Once you are running, use aptitude and check that all the recommended > packages for the new kernel version are present, including udev. > > You can then use 'update-initramfs' and 'update-grub' to regenerate the > initramfs which contains a copy of udev, and *that* should let you boot > properly again. Sounds great, if I could only get that far. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
