crashed during a dist-upgrade

**Unix'EM** · 05-11-2009

I have a problem with my computer which has crashed during a dist-upgrade and now the system wont start. I reach to the screen which says grub loading and the screen then turns black. Actually wanted to know how I can i get the system up and running again by the easiest way, without the need of loosing the data I have on Ubuntu disk. Please help...

**Solomon** · 05-11-2009

One of the reason why the system crashed during the dist-upgarde may be there is some problem with fstab. If the filesystem is not damaged and not corrupt, you can get your data back, but to install ubuntu you need to format the partition. I don't think there is any other way out of this...

**Rudra.J** · 05-11-2009

Do you have Ubuntu Live CD? If yes you can do this :

Boot from live CD
Mount the Ubuntu partition
Mount some other partition to take backup
Copy the files from the Ubuntu parition that are important to the backup parition
Reboot the system and reinstall Ubuntu
OR Install Ubuntu from the live environment itself

**SmirnOFF** · 05-11-2009

Could be done with a LiveCD. From here take the backup of the folders /home, /etc and also /usr from your old file system and not the LiveCD so you can each have all the settings and preference of your old system in the new system that you will install. Remember to copy the hidden folders in your home directory which may be required...

**Baker** · 05-11-2009

You should have a look at the CD, you CD might be damaged or the ISO that you have downloaded might not be working. Always verify the MD5 checksum for the ISO files that you download. If you have a blank CD you can burn the disk again and see if the Installation works. But you must clean install as the partition is left with incomplete setup.

**Aramax** · 05-11-2009

I think the problem might be the Power Supply. It is command that when your CPU works at maximum load it needs more power which the PSU can supply, but sometimes the power experiences fluctuation and due to the fluctuations, the system can freeze or reboot. I hope you get through this... Just to be sure also check your memory...