Discussion between ACase and macintosh264 - 2011-09-25

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A: Debain no longer booting after apt-get remove upstart

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Boot off a Live CD. You can either try booting into rescue mode (http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howtoboot-ubuntu-linux-rescue-mode/) and try repairing your system or you can try and do a re-install but don't format the file systems so you won't overwrite any data you've written to disk. Either w...

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At what point does it panic? During boot off Live CD? What Live CD are you booting off of? When I am in grub, I select the second option, and then the log reads kernel panic. grub of your install or the live cd? What can I do with my data from the live cd. How can I save it. And how can I save the apache settings and things like that. Please help me. If you either of you can solve this you can get 4 bitcoins if you so please. Grub of my install

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Use the Live CD rescue mode, not repair mode. Okay, so how can I mount my second HD and how can I keep my configurations from my server applications What partitions does it have? You can look at HDs with 'ls /dev/sd*' Just copy the data to a USB stick or enable networking and scp it to another host
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I am not booted. they are 2 different internal hds And do you know what upstart might have to do with this you'd mount it with 'mkdir /mnt/disk1; mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk1' to mount partition 1 of disk 1. I removed upstart and then this happened
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I removed upstart and then this happened Change the names depending on the HD and parititioning set up how can I mkdir on a read only volume it's not a read only volume like the live cd it's a RAM disk oh.... well that makes sense No you boot into RESCUE mode off the Live CD
12:05 AM so is there any way for me to say, reinstall upstart from the live CD and try rebooting again. apt-get install upstart 12:04 AM

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Then copy your data off and then try to repair your system Yep. how can I make apt-get install apply to the install, not the ram disk In recue mode you choose to mount the OS Choose this option then on the command line run: chroot /mnt/sysimage; apt-get install upstart

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"chroot" = "change root of this system"? You'll probably want to copy your config files off to a USB stick or something before you do yep YAH! I have learned my lesson this time. BACKUP BACKUP everything.
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Just to be safe that if you clobber your system any more you still have your data Of course. Thank you so much!!!!! np

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Can I please send you 3 or four bitcoins, I really owe you. When my server is back up Just an upvote and answered will do. I will answered, but I only have 1 rep so I cannot upvote yet, but when I can that is a given! np good luck. can you repeat the command to mount the hd one more time, so I can make sure I get it right. I am printing this, and I don't want to get it wrong wait found it Let me just repeat it so it is in the transcript I am printing cat /proc/partitions mkdir /mnt/my_disk mount -t /mnt/my_disk chroot /mnt/my_disk apt-get install upstart umount /mnt/my_disk done! printing
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