Locked up boot after failed update

[Jim Cornette]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
>> After applying updates to the computer yesterday, I came back to the 
>> computer to check on the progress of the machine. X had a white box 
>> where the gnome-terminal was and the only other thing on the screen 
>> was the mouse. No panels, no text.
>> Since the ctl-alt sequence was not working due to the keyboard 
>> problem, I could not change to a VT so was stuck with killing the 
>> computer unclean.
>> Anyway, now I can only boot up to the unmounting old root and these 
>> prompts. How would you be able to pass these process and boot into a 
>> single user mode or maintenance mode? Single user failed the same way 
>> as other runlevels.
>>
>> Jim
>>
> Boot the machine with a rescue mode cd or other Live cd and fsck the 
> partitions in the install, then try booting it again.
> 

Thanks! I could not find a boot disk to try. The parameter I was looking 
for is init=bin/sh which got me into the system.

JIm