Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS apt problems - how to upgrade f/w?

[Bo Berglund]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:52:51 +0000, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 at 20:49, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The OP does not have physical access to the machine so cannot see the
>> menu on screen
>>
>
>Would it be practical for the OP to be on the phone to someone with
>physical access to the machine and take things from there?
>

More practical in that case is to gain physical access to the server and hook up
the additional hardware to it (display, keyboard, mouse) as well as bringing a
desk to put everything on.
Then I should be able to choose the right server to start (if there are
alternatives).

Maybe my new idea to reformat the desktop partition and make it a data drive
instead, then perform a sudo update-grub on the server system to basically
create a new boot menu where the desktop ubuntu would no longer exist can work?

The problem then is that I don't know how to force the reboot on the server to
actually bring it back up again.

Maybe Windows starts running for example, or GParted standalone....

I have not yet reformatted the partition for the Desktop.


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden