Mitch Wiedemann wrote: >All Nicks Are Taken wrote: > > > >>Hi. >>A few of days ago I decided I want to upgrade my Sarge to Sid >>(unstable) and so I did (changed the apt sources list, as I've read in >>some article.) >>Couple of days ago everything worked fine, absolutely no problems; a >>clean shutdown with nothing suspicious. >>Yesterday I booted up my PC and to my surprise, everything was messed >>up. At first, I could see GDM wasn't loaded, and later I descovered >>that no partitions have been mounted except the / partition; then, I >>also found that no network is up and some modules haven't been loaded. >>The messages at the booting stage contained lots of errors... >>I tried to mount the /usr partition manually, and it went fine. also >>all the partitions I mounted manually were ok, and all the data on the >>HD was ok, including /boot (and lilo.) >>But I really don't know what to do now... Something like this has >>never happend to me. >>Here is my 'dmesg' output: >>http://metawire.org/~crux/dmesg <http://metawire.org/%7Ecrux/dmesg> >> >>Any idea what can I do now? I'm pretty clewless... >> >> > >Did your old (working) /etc/fstab get hosed by a new non-worky fstab? >You *do* have a backup of your old /etc/fstab don't you? :) > >That would be my first step. > > Also, this is your golden opportunity to become clueful. Just this sort of circumstance is what helped a great many of us to learn the ins and outs of GNU/Linux system administration... Carpe diem! :)
Or, if you just need your system to work, reinstall Sarge on your / and remount your /home... Good luck! -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
