Interrupted 14.04 upgrade

[monkeybrain20122]

Well the upgrade shouldn't have damaged your data files in /home. Boot off a live usb to retrieve them and then erase everything and do a clean install. You won't have to go through all these troubles if you just backed up your files and took 20 minutes to do a clean install. "Upgrade" is complex and fragile, it is not a very reliable process and takes a very long time. I wish they give people more warnings and education instead of having a popup pushing people to upgrade.

[kowloon2]

Sorry, if he have other computer to use, he can download boot-repair and burn to CD.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair/

[kowloon2]

http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/

why not download, then use unetbootin to create a bootable usb drive.

then boot this and it can fix your boot issue.

Also, if you can boot to a command prompt with networking, you can run
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I have used this to repair boots with Trusty 14.04

I totally agree with you (sdowney717). I've used similar procedure after I upgraded to 14.04.