<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Roman Kyrylych <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roman.kyrylych@gmail.com">roman.kyrylych@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:59, Ronald van Haren <<a href="mailto:pressh@gmail.com">pressh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hey guys,<br>
><br>
> this morning I synced my old i686 laptop to testing, thereby upgrading the<br>
> kernel to 2.6.31 and such. I did so when I was in the train (I downloaded<br>
> the packages already at home) on the way to my internship. I rebooted the<br>
> system after the upgrade, but it won't start anymore.<br>
> It just hangs forever at the line 'waiting for udev uevents to be processed'<br>
> (although one of my tries actually went to checking filesystems before it<br>
> hanged and two times it hanged at 'loading modules').<br>
><br>
> Problem is I don't have a live cd or anything here and my laptop can't boot<br>
> from usb, but I really need some code and documents which are on my laptop<br>
> right now. I'm kinda lost here, but is there some way to accomplish this or<br>
> at least get into an early shell where I could mount an usb drive?<br>
<br>
</div></div>In the grub menu edit the kernel command line and add "break=y" to it.<br>
You should get to the dash shell of initramfs environment.<br>
I suggest using fallback kernel otherwise you may not get all<br>
filesystems supported.<br>
If your mkinitcpio image does not have usb hook you should be able to<br>
mount USB devices, I think.<br>
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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>thanks, I was able to chroot into my installation and work from there. Did not really succeed mounting an usb device but it was fine.<br><br>Should be able to fix it fairly quickly with the install cd @home I suppose.<br>
<br>Ronald<br>