Long story short, I had a ps3 with both Lenny and Sid repositories. Knowing this is a bad idea and that Lenny is being deprecated I decided I wanted to move everything to Sid. I changed my repos and ran apt-get-update, upgrade, dist-upgrade. Had one warning during the apt-get upgrade that version of HAL I was about to install would not be supported by the kernel. I figured dist-upgrade would add a new kernel and if not I had made a backup. I proceeded and after rebooting I just have an "initramfs" prompt instead of a kde login screen. There's no apt or dpkg and it seems my backup file may be corrupted as it does not open now...
I would like to get this up and running again, preferably with Sid.
If anyone has ANY advice it would be MUCH appreciated.
Imagine I have an unbootable system where I need to update the kernel image using update-initramfs.
I have seen numerous examples online which show the following
$ mount -t proc none /mnt/ubuntu/proc
$ mount -o bind /dev /mnt/ubuntu/dev
$ mount -o bind /sys /mnt/ubuntu/sys
After that we... (8 Replies)
Is there a patch available to support initramfs on the 2.4 kernel? We can't upgrade to 2.6 for legacy purposes. All I found on google were early references to how initramfs is better than the 2.4 initrd.
Thanks much! (0 Replies)
What's the correct way to change the initramfs file that's used during boot?
I know that it's a gzipped cpio archive, but when I gunzip, extract, re-archive (without changing any files), and gzip, then the result is that the system does not boot any more. And I even set the cpio archive type.
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yum-utils(1)yum-utils(1)NAME
yum-utils - tools for manipulating repositories and extended package management
SYNOPSIS
debuginfo-install - install debuginfo packages and their dependencies
find-repos-of-install - report which repository the package was installed from
needs-restarting - report process ids that started running before they or some component they use were updated
package-cleanup - manage package cleanup, duplicates, orphaned packages and outstanding dependency problems
repo-graph - outputs a full package dependency list in dot format
repo-rss - generates an RSS feed from one or more repositories
repoclosure - reads metadata of repositories, checks dependencies and displays list of unresolved dependencies
repodiff - takes two or more repositories, returns a list of added, removed or changed packages
repomanage - manages a directory of rpm packages, returns a list of newest or oldest packages in a directory
repoquery - query yum repositories and get additional information on the them
reposync - synchronize a remote yum repository to a local directory using yum to retrieve packages
repotrack - track packages and its dependencies and downloads them
show-changed-rco - list of changes to a package Requires, Conflicts and Obsoletes data from installed to a specified rpm file
show-installed - gives a compact description of packages installed and makes use of comps groups in repositories
verifytree - verify that a local yum repository is consistent
yum-builddep - installs missing dependencies to build a specified package
yum-complete-transaction - finds incomplete or aborted yum transactions and attempts to complete them
yum-config-manager - toggle yum repositories, add new repositories and set main yum configuration options
yum-debug-dump - creates gzipped file containing information for debugging problems
yum-debug-restore - replays any transactions captured in gzipped file in yum shell
yum-groups-manager - create and edit yum's group metadata
yum-installed - print a compact package list making use of comps groups
yumdb - query or alter the yum database
yumdownloader - downloads packages from yum repositories including source RPMs
DESCRIPTION
yum-utils is a collection of tools and programs for managing yum repositories, installing debug packages, source packages, extended infor-
mation from repositories and administration.
NOTES
See respective tools for additional help for commands without a manual page
SEE ALSO debuginfo-install(1), package-cleanup(1), repodiff(1), repoquery(1), reposync(1), repo-rss(1), show-changed-rco(1), show-installed(1), yum-
downloader(1), yum-builddep(1), yum-debug-dump(1), yum-groups-manager(1), yumdb(8), yum-complete-transaction(8)AUTHOR
Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com>
yum-utils August 2011 yum-utils(1)
