doihavetodothis?
August 24th, 2010, 03:59 PM
I have a dual boot PC, the windows partition still works.
The upgrade from 8.04LTS to 10.04 LTS has failed. I can't boot up - in one of the modes it tells me:
mount:/mounting none of /dev failed no such device
etc....
dropping to a shell
Busy Box v1.13.3
I now have four or five new kernels and recovery lines when i boot up, so in the beginning it all looks good.
But when I boot up it won't, or in recovery mode it says something like this:
General error mounting file systems, a maintenance shell will now be started
root@karin-desktop:~#
(fsck says dev/sda3 clean)
you must manually run sudo dpkg --configure -a
When I run this it says:
W:not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
error security.ubuntu.com
error za.archive.ubuntu.com
unable to access dpkg status area: read only file system
(In brief - I haven't written down every line.)
(If you can tell me where to go to get the info you need... )
In the meantime 8.04 has disappeared off my system. Is there a way to revert to it without losing all my info? I really don't want to do a clean install and don't have a live CD. Or is there a way to save the new install and my info?
Thanks.
The upgrade from 8.04LTS to 10.04 LTS has failed. I can't boot up - in one of the modes it tells me:
mount:/mounting none of /dev failed no such device
etc....
dropping to a shell
Busy Box v1.13.3
I now have four or five new kernels and recovery lines when i boot up, so in the beginning it all looks good.
But when I boot up it won't, or in recovery mode it says something like this:
General error mounting file systems, a maintenance shell will now be started
root@karin-desktop:~#
(fsck says dev/sda3 clean)
you must manually run sudo dpkg --configure -a
When I run this it says:
W:not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
error security.ubuntu.com
error za.archive.ubuntu.com
unable to access dpkg status area: read only file system
(In brief - I haven't written down every line.)
(If you can tell me where to go to get the info you need... )
In the meantime 8.04 has disappeared off my system. Is there a way to revert to it without losing all my info? I really don't want to do a clean install and don't have a live CD. Or is there a way to save the new install and my info?
Thanks.