June 2007 Archives
June 04
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
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 :(
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 :(