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
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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.
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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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repoclosure(1)repoclosure(1)NAME
repoclosure - display a list of unresolved dependencies for a yum repository
SYNOPSIS
repoclosure [options]
DESCRIPTION
repoclosure is a program that reads package metadata from one or more yum repositories, checks all dependencies, and displays a list of
packages with unresolved dependencies.
OPTIONS -h, --help
Display a help message, and then quit.
-c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG
Config file to use (defaults to /etc/yum.conf).
-a ARCH, --arch=ARCH
Check packages of the given archs, can be specified multiple times (default: current arch).
--basearch=BASEARCH
Set the basearch for yum to run as.
-b, --builddeps
Check build dependencies only (needs source repos enabled).
-l LOOKASIDE, --lookaside=LOOKASIDE
Specify a lookaside repo id to query, can be specified multiple times.
-r REPOID, --repoid=REPOID
Specify repo ids to query, can be specified multiple times (default is all enabled).
-t, --tempcache
Use a temp dir for storing/accessing yum-cache.
-q, --quiet
Run quietly: no warnings printed to stderr.
-n, --newest
Check only the newest packages in the repos.
--repofrompath=REPOID,PATH/URL
Specify a path or url to a repository (same path as in a baseurl) to add to the repositories for this query. This option can be used
multiple times. If you want to view only the pkgs from this repository combine this with --repoid. The repoid for the repository is
specified by REPOID.
-p PKG, --pkg=PKG
Check closure for this package only
-g GROUP, --group=GROUP
Check closure for packages in this group only
SEE ALSO
yum.conf (5)
http://yum.baseurl.org/
AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program.
13 January 2013 repoclosure(1)
