atmasphere
September 21st, 2012, 11:26 PM
I made the mistake of going from 10.04 to 12.04 (IMO the Upgrade button should not be made available if the system is more than one level behind the level of the upgrade...).
So the upgrade failed and I further complicated things by not backing up the system.
Now I have a dead machine and can't sort out a way to get my files off the disk drive. The system does a partial boot (splash page) and then gives me one of three options, the only one that does anything is (M)Manual Recovery which drops me to a shell.
That is where I discovered that the entire file system is now read-only and can't be reset, so I can't create a directory as a mount point for the USB (which I can't use anyway as it does not appear in fstab or mtab, both of which are read-only and can't be changed...).
I am thinking the only way out of this is to get a new hard drive, pull the old drive out, do a fresh installation from an install disk, and then reinstall the old drive as a slave and transfer the files in my home directory.
Before I go and do this, does anyone see another way out of this??
Thanks!
So the upgrade failed and I further complicated things by not backing up the system.
Now I have a dead machine and can't sort out a way to get my files off the disk drive. The system does a partial boot (splash page) and then gives me one of three options, the only one that does anything is (M)Manual Recovery which drops me to a shell.
That is where I discovered that the entire file system is now read-only and can't be reset, so I can't create a directory as a mount point for the USB (which I can't use anyway as it does not appear in fstab or mtab, both of which are read-only and can't be changed...).
I am thinking the only way out of this is to get a new hard drive, pull the old drive out, do a fresh installation from an install disk, and then reinstall the old drive as a slave and transfer the files in my home directory.
Before I go and do this, does anyone see another way out of this??
Thanks!