On Sun, 13 May 2012, Wen Lin <vwenlin@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually I was hoping that install process didn't get very far, and that none of the 11.10 packages had yet to be replaced. Then perhaps I could, say, go into rescue mode from a Live CD and just fix the corrupted boot loader or something?
If it's got far enough to change the boot sequence then it's replaced packages.
Initially I also thought that perhaps the problem was due to the X-Windows issue with the graphic card (it's a separate NVIDIA card, and the PC is a few-month-old new i5 whitebox, from CPL) resulting in display problem.
Is Ubuntu one of those distributions that starts X really early in the boot? If so there should be a way of disabling that to get a text mode boot. Completing the upgrade in text mode should be possible.
However, I did a check using the Ctrl-Alt-F1 command but it didn't bring me to a pure terminal screen - indicates that the whole system did indeed froze by now (or is it?)
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