[ale] a no way out situation

[Jim Kinney]

Sounds like it's time to provide a temp hard drive withh freedos and bios
flash image.
On Oct 27, 2012 12:45 PM, "Jim Philips" <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

> To date, no amount of fiddling has gotten me a network connection or
> an X session. What I have tried:
>
> 1. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg  After this, I get a warning that my
> keyboard and mouse are not working. I get a dialogue box that requires
> "OK" to get past. With no keyboard and no mouse, I can't get past it.
>
> 2. I tried a wired connection and "ifup eth0". This just tells me that
> eth0 is not recognized, even thought it shows up if I run "ifconfig
> -a".
>
> 3. Selecting "Networking" from the "Recovery" screen. This gets me a
> blinking cursor that never stops.
>
> 4. Using a boot disk. My BIOS gives me a chance to select hard drive
> or CD/DVD drive to boot from. Selecting CD/DVD drive brings me right
> back to a boot from the hard drive. I think this broke the last time
> BIOS updated.
>
> So, I'm really screwed when it comes to starting Linux. I can't even
> do a reinstall. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:23 PM, 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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