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How to recover from a failing Kernel

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 3, 2011

[ Thanks to linuxaria for this link.
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“1 Boot with another Linux: What do you need: a Live CD/USB
Stick, it’s better to use a recent distribution, i used for this
Ubuntu 11.04 on a USB Stick (1 GB). Once that the live distribution
has booted, open a terminal and become root (usually a sudo -i is
enough). Also check the internet connection, we could need to
download something later.

“2 Mount of your filesystem: Now you have to find the partition
where you keep your / and if you use it the /boot. To see the
status of your partitions use.”


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Web Webster

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