How to fix broken init

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Hi
Try to pass the kernel the folowing parameter in GRUB: init=/bin/sh.
With this, a kernel will start a root shell, and not the init/upstart
Good Luck!
Andrew
2006. 10. 28, szombat keltezéssel 12.39-kor Lee Willis ezt írta:
> I left one of my machines running a dist-upgrade to bring it up to date 
> with edgy-latest around 10 days ago. Unfortunately something seems to 
> have happened during the upgrade as when I returned to the PC the power 
> was off. I guess either a power failure (Although nothing else in the 
> house went off), the machine decided to suspend/hibernate itself, or my 
> 2-year old had fun with the bright green button :)
> 
> Whenever I try and boot the machine into any of the installed kernels 
> the boot process just hangs. Even trying to boot into single user 
> doesn't actually get me to a shell. The kernel seems to load OK, and I 
> get lots of output about stuff being set up, but it never seems to get 
> anywhere that I can do anything. I'm *guessing* that the old init 
> process had been removed, and the new upstart process hadn't been 
> installed before the power went [It was one of the changes to be made by 
> the upgrade IIRC].  I suspect that if I could get it booted then I'd be 
> able to get it sorted with some dist-upgrade or dpkg-configure magic - 
> however how can I get to that point?  I have a live CD if that'll help 
> [Perhaps boot off the live CD and run dpkg-configure with --root set to 
> the hard drive?]
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Lee
>