On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:04 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 18/05/07, Terence Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > > > Quoting Leon Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> On 18/05/07, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi all, > > >>> It then just sits there. Is there any way of doing a "chroot > > >>> /mnt/root /bin/bash" and then running an apt-get dist-upgrade or > > >>> update in order to resolve this? Obviously I'd need to boot from a > > >>> live CD, but I'm sure the last time I tried to do this it failed > > >>> miserably and I had to blat the HDD and start again. > > >>> > > >> You are correct. Go into a rescue session with the LiveCD on the boot > > >> options. It will give you a shell where you can carry on your upgrade. > > >> > > > > > > Can I use an Edgy disk for this? I don't remember there being a > > > "Rescue" option on the boot menu... > > > > > > M. > > > > > > > There is a "Rescue" mode on the alternate CD, but you don't actually > > need it. Just use a terminal from the LiveCD session to do it. > > > > Using a terminal on the LiveCD is a little bit involved.
I managed it eventually (all those years of using Gentoo and bootstrapping the system finally came in handy!) I was able to do a chroot and then an apt-get dist-upgrade and it's now working fine. Thanks for all you help, M. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
