Interrupted update to 11.10, now computer wont boot. fix?

[PFactorial]

I started the download and upgrade to 11.10 from 11.04 on root account then I went to a guest account to continue my work/play/whatever while the root account installed the packages I logged out of the guest account later, and the computer didnt respond so I did a hard reset(which was pretty stupid but the computer wasn't responding) and then when I boot, a splash screen of "UBUNTU 11.04" appeared and there was a bit at the bottom about not being able to mount a network or something like that. It went along the lines of "Press S to skip boot or Press M to manually configure". And it would never do anything except sit there. So can anyone help me out? Thank You!

[oldtimer7777]

I started the download and upgrade to 11.10 from 11.04 on root account then I went to a guest account to continue my work/play/whatever while the root account installed the packages I logged out of the guest account later, and the computer didnt respond so I did a hard reset(which was pretty stupid but the computer wasn't responding) and then when I boot, a splash screen of "UBUNTU 11.04" appeared and there was a bit at the bottom about not being able to mount a network or something like that. It went along the lines of "Press S to skip boot or Press M to manually configure". And it would never do anything except sit there. So can anyone help me out? Thank You!

Sounds like something got corrupted when the system went down early. A hard power cycle will sometimes cause damage to OS. Have you tried booting into your rescue disc? If you don't have a rescue disc, now would be a good time to create one for yourself.

[PFactorial]

like another live cd? Yeah. But I didnt know what to do during the session

[oldtimer7777]

like another live cd? Yeah. But I didnt know what to do during the session

Or you can create a live USB stick.. of Ubuntu. That way we can try to repair the damage to your system. If you can't get to the command line on either a resque disc or your damanged HDD (which I don't recommend since it can cause continued corruption and loss of data) it would be prudent to use a rescue live disc stick to copy your files you want to keep before we try to repair the system. Did you do regular backups on your systems?

[PFactorial]

uh. no.
So what do I do in the rescue disk's Ubuntu?

[oldtimer7777]

uh. no.
So what do I do in the rescue disk's Ubuntu?

Once you have created a resque USB flash stick of Ubuntu, you will want to boot from that USB stick of Ubuntu, and copy any files you want to keep.