[Bug 607006] Re: 10.04 LiveCD (USB-ified with usb-creator) decided to use an existing HDD partition for swap.

[Dan Shoutis]

Hi Jeremy,

I might need a bit of hand-holding to get the kernel installed since the
issue is with a boot-CD environment that's been moved onto a USB drive.

I'm thinking of chrooting into it from another system and using normal
apt as per instructions above, then just overwriting the ubuntu kernel
with a copy of the upstream one (since as far as I know there's no GRUB
menu for picking kernels when I boot from the USB).

Would that, dirty hack as it may be, work well enough? Would I need to
overwrite the initrd too?

Note: I have to finish doing backups (using photorec over 1TB array is a
*slow* process), troubleshoot the drive that died,  rebuild+reinstall,
and get the machine back to its owner by Sunday, and I'm travelling
today and tomorrow -- so the window of time for doing experiments is
extremely limited. What sort of other information should I grab? (e.g. I
could try and tar up /sys, /etc, /var/log, etc... there's not much
privileged info on this machine so I can be verbose, but I want to make
sure I get the useful stuff.)

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10.04 LiveCD (USB-ified with usb-creator) decided to use an existing HDD partition for swap.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607006
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