Hardy server won't start after upgrade

[Ville Pöntinen]

2008/6/9 Charles Austin <ceaustin at gmail.com>:
...
> If all else fails, burn a "live" CD (Knoppix) and boot your machine
> from that.  You should get full access to your drives, and should be
> able to edit the boot loader conf file to get the system into single
> user mode (again, you will need to google for the changes to do this
> in LILO).  Worst case, from a "Live CD" OS you copy off critical
> directories in the event you cannot restore this installation.
>
> Charles

With live-CD (Knoppix or Ubuntu) you can also chroot yourself to
Ubuntu on hard drive and try updating/fixing system. Much like
chrooting to /opt. On my computer like this:

sudo mkdir /temp
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /temp
sudo chroot /temp

Replace /dev/sda2 with your Ubuntu-partition which you can find out
with sudo fdisk -l.

Ville Pöntinen
Raisio, Finland