[ale] Mandriva upgrade problem

[Jason Day]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:25:45PM -0400, Mark Wright wrote:
> I have a home desktop that I am trying to upgrade from MDK 9.2 to 2005
> (10.2)  The upgrade seemed to go fine but when it was time to reboot it
> hangs at "mounting smb file systems".  It is already at runlevel 5 by
> this time and should be starting the x server but it never gets that
> far.

I have a very similar problem with a gentoo install once.  It turned out
I had a typo in /etc/fstab.

> I have tried to use a standalone CD to boot and disable smb.conf or
> some other quick repair but of the three disks I have, Knoppix, Ubuntu,
> and mandrake move only Knoppix will boot. This would be great but it
> comes up in German and I can't make vi work.  (I can start it but I
> can't get insert mode and ESC shift-: won't work)

Not sure why the other rescure disks won't work, but you should be able
to boot knoppix into english mode by type "knoppix lang=en" at the boot
prompt.  You should also be able to press F2 and F3 at the boot prompt
for help.

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