Help, its messed up.

steve sfreilly at roadrunner.com
Thu Mar 13 11:04:07 UTC 2008


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Jim Smith wrote:
| I usually can fix most of my own problems, but I am stumped by this one.
| I recently installed Hardy on my laptop after running Gutsy for a long
| time. Hardy was running well until the latest update. Now it appears
| hosed. I cannot get it to boot in normal or recovery mode, using any one
| of the three kernels available. it goes thru the boot sequence
| apparently normally, then drops to the text based screen then stops on
| the line "Starting system log daemon......." Will not boot into a root
| shell either, just keeps cycling back to the login prompt. Of course I
| can always do a complete re-install, but will lose some hard to
| duplicate files. My backup is somewhat out of date. I am quite aware of
| the dangers of putting a development system on, but this is the very
| first time I have had trouble. If I could recover my data, then I can
| re-install Gutsy.
|
|
| Thank you all,
| Jim
|

had the same problem here, but I had more than 3 kernels avail to choose
from.  I guess because I updated and wasnt a fresh install? who knows,
but an older kernel worked for me, .17-12 the last one they updated to
didnt work for my acer laptop. .24-12.  cant offer anything more than that.





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Steve Reilly

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