[TriLUG] How was your week?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On 8/7/06, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, this week isn't starting too well.
>
> Yesterday, I decided to upgrade the home server from Ubuntu breezy  to dapper.
>
> Usually those upgrades seem to go well, but I seem to have run into a
> bug in the code which generates the initramfs which caused it to leave
> out the code needed to understand lvm, so I can't boot.
>
> I'm currently downloading a dapper install disk to (hopefully) use as
> rescue disk.  I've found some indications that I should be able to
> escape out to a shell early in the install process, mount the LVM
> volume, chroot, and re-install the kernel package to fix it.
>
> So I'm starting the week with crossed fingers, hoping that I don't
> have to rebuild the system from backups.

Can't you just select an older kernel from the grub menu?
If you did "apt-get dist-upgrade" the older kernels should
still be there.  (I assume that's what you did, since you're
only downloading the install disk after the fact.)

Cheers,
Tanner
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