Failed to initialize HAL - No internet, cd or usb
Oliver Grawert
hostmaster at grawert.net
Wed May 4 08:43:01 UTC 2005
hi,
Am Dienstag, den 03.05.2005, 20:43 -0700 schrieb Alex Mandel:
> So I was trying to configure a scanner and I used synaptic to install
> usbmgr.
>
> This unistalled hal, gonme-volume-manager, hotplug etc. (Didn't quite
> realize what I was doing)
>
> So I go to boot up the machine to work on it today and I get a "Failed
> to initialize HAL" with a haywire usb mouse, no ethernet and no cdrom.
>
> How do I undo the damage, I know I need to reinstall HAL etc. but I
> can't access the cd or the internet to get the package.
if you can make your cdrom work (try: sudo modprobe ide-cdrom) you could
use sudo apt-cdrom to make the cd aware to apt, then install ubuntu-base
and ubuntu-desktop, these two should fix it....
...good luck (you'll need it)...
ciao
oli
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