[kwlug-disc] Botched upgrade from Kubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to 9.10 (Karmic)

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

The strange thing here is that my laptop upgraded fine without issues,
except for the wireless driver, which did not work on 9.04 either. So did
the same thing and I was fine.

The other issue was power management and acpi_osi="Linux" did the trick so
far.

This second laptop has a show stopper issue.

>
> I thought about backing up the home directory and doing a clean install,
> but USB disks are not automatically recognized when I boot with
> init=/bin/bash.
>

What I did was boot from an older CD (8.04) and then connect a USB disk and
backup the home directory. I will then reinstall and then copy back the home
directory.

As much I want to solve this issue of init-bottom, we can't afford the
downtime.
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