Trashed Hardy on update

[Francisco Borges]

Hello Nigel,

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:

>  Now I can't boot normally and even in recovery mode, regardless of which
>  kernel I choose, I get to:
>  Check root= bootarg cat /proc.cmdline
>  or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
>  ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/long_string_of_alphanumeric_stuff does not
>  exist. Dropping to a shell!
>  BusyBox v1.1.3 9Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)
>  Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

That sounds like.... hum... loads of fun!!

Think in a positive way Nigel!! You're in for a lot of fun!

[...]

My **guess** is that you'll probably need to 'rescue" your system.

Rescuing something with a broken libc will IIRC
- involve booting a Live CD,
- setting up a bootstraped environment (I really don't remember the
command for it).

then you'll either download whichever packages you'll need to
reinstall, or get network on the bootstraped system.

and then reinstall/upgrade whatever is broken

If you google for "Linux rescue" you may find more information on how
to do it....

Once you have done it. You can be proud of yourself, and get to treat
your self with ice-cream. At least that is what I did every time I had
to rescue a system.

[...]

I don't know if that consoles you, but I may be on the same boat ;-)
upgraded in the morning, saw the broken libc, but I had to go to work.
So I hibernated.

Cheers,
-- 
Francisco