laptop disaster
Today, I turned on my laptop after not using it for several weeks
and decided to do an upgrade. It needed to download 750MB's of
packages so I let it go and worked on something else. It wasn't
plugged in but the Gnome battery monitor icon was blue which
generally means ok. I
think it changes to yellow then red
before drastic measures need to be made.
I glanced over at the laptop sometime later, about 20 minutes I
think and noticed the battery monitor had completely disappeared
from the Gnome panel. I thought that was odd but perhaps the applet
was one of the things being upgraded, then I looked in my terminal
and saw that dpkg was configuring
initrd and was running
update-initrd. Then the laptop suddenly shut off
:-)
Upon rebooting I get the old "cannot find root filesystem" error
and the inevitable kernel panic. I have no idea really how to
recover from this, except maybe booting to a live distro, chrooting
and running that command manually. If that won't work, and I don't
even know if that is the right thing to do, then I will have to
re-install :(