[ale] a no way out situation

Ron Frazier (ALE) atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Mon Oct 22 20:16:00 EDT 2012


Just thinking out loud here.  Try fsck from a boot cd.  Try installing vid drivers from boot cd.  Try networking with ethernet wired conn.

Ron


Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

>In Ubuntu 12.10, I tried upgrading the ATI driver to fglrx-updates.
>After this, X wouldn't start. If I start up in recovery mode, there is
>a Networking option. Selecting this starts fsck, which never finishes.
>If I drop to the root prompt, I don't see any way to start wireless
>networking. So, as it stands, I see no way to update any packages. Any
>ideas?
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