Public bug reported:
I used the update notification at Synaptic Package Manager on my
Feisty laptop to begin the Gutsy upgrade. After the files were obtained
it began replacing Feisty to Gutsy versions. As the files were being
written, I noticed quite a few dependencies errors with their messages
that a given file (program) would not be installed or might not work
properly. This message suggested that I file a bug report. A bit further
on into this upgrade process I noticed that there were messages giving
me the option to "compare the differences" between the file I had and
the new file. So on one of these messages, I don't know which one, I
selected "D" and was given a command line screen that described stuff I
did not know about and then sat there saying "end".
I figured that hitting enter would return me to the install process.
Not so. The machine was sitting at the command prompt waiting for, I
don't know what. Eventually I thought if I did a power down/up that the
install process would pick up from where it left off. Again, not so. I
tried booting from the regular kernal choice and from the recovery mode,
neither of which yeilded a working computer.
From the screens that stopped on the boot attempts I wrote down the
last screen of each attempt. The significant lines are:
For the kernel 2.6.22-14 (recovery mode)
[10.960197]/build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/ftc/hc.tosys.c:
unable to open rtc device(rtc0)
[10.973499] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[11.063970] VFS: Cannot open root device "UUID
=adc16267-58e2-4882-9850-9da2e35d482" or unknown-block (0,0)
[11.064022] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
partitions:
[11.064075] Kernel panic - not sysncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block (0,0)
For the kernel 2.6.22.14-generic
[16.798468] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:04.0
[17.014051] Kernal panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block (0,0)
At the bottom of the screen:
Kernel alive
kernel direct mapping tables up to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had other boot choices which I went through and tried them all with
the result that I was brought to a light blue screen with a cursor that
I could move around but no text or sign-in boxes.
The machine in question is an HP dv8000 AMD64 laptop with two internal hard
drives. It was running fine with the Feisty software.
I've used our second laptop to download the Gutsy AMD64 .iso and burn a CD. I
am at the "bricked" laptop as I write this, but only on the CD. I want help
with finding, identifying and recovering important files, if not the entire
hard disks. Such files include e-mail, boat information, passwords, bookmarks,
etc. This is the second time in an upgrade process that this level of screw-up
has happened. Last time was Dapper to Edgy and I lost all information. Help,
please! Doug
Thank you, Doug
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Feisty>Gutsy upgrade bricked my hard drives
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156366
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