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Originally Posted by ixmatus  I expected it to be as simple and painless as all the other smaller updates had been; this one was just bigger. It took three hours to complete and I ended up with a computer that wouldn't boot past the Boot Manager (GRUB), couldn't get into a commandline, nothing.  |
Assuming you could edit the grub command(it's an option in the config file, I think), you could've tried adding "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel to have it skip the normal init and just boot into bash instead.
If you do that, your root filesystem would be mounted read-only and you'd have to do a "mount -o remount,rw /" or something like that to get write support.
Then you might want to update mtab to see if it's OK(if you have stuff from your last boot in there then mount won't try to mount the partition even though it's not really mounted), and do a "mount -a" to get the rest of your partitions.
Then look around in /etc/init.d/ and start up whatever services you need... You'll be logged in as root without actually logging in. The only things you really need for this to work is for your kernel, bash, and some libraries to be OK.