Problem getting to recovery console

[bobwya]

Following a failed manual install of the AMD Catalyst drivers (11.12)... Did everything by the book (or so I thought)
Anyway I boot in and the system hoses with a black screen as soon as Plymouth starts...

So I need to get in and do some serious console work!!

Anyway I am using Burg on a separate (Chakra) partition to boot my Kubuntu 11.10 install.
Just can't seem to get a shell with R/W access to filesystem. I can log into a root shell with the recovery option (but that is R/O).
Is there anyway to force a Recovery mode with R/W access? I've tried passing all the obvious stuff, like "text" and "text recovery",
to the Kubuntu kernel (both 3.0.0.12 and 3.0.0.14).

I can obviously access the root partition from my Chakra install/ or a USB stick. So should I put back a generic Xorg.conf that doesn't
refer to fglrx (and remove it from the loadable modules)? Is there any other file-system fixes I could perform from a different distro?

First thing I plan to do when I get things working again is ditch ***** Plymouth!

I could reinstall the Kubuntu root partition... But where's the fun in that 8)

Anyone able to help a do·zy

Ta
Bob

[SteveRiley]

Re: Problem getting to recovery console

Over at the Ubuntu forums is a detailed post (with lots of additional discussion) containing tips on how to work through/around a variety of graphics problems. Perhaps it can assist your troubleshooting.

[nukedathlonman]

Re: Problem getting to recovery console

Plan-plan-plan. You should be able to use Chakra for recovery - boot Chakra up, open a terminal, mount the root partion whome where for a short period of time, do up a few binds between the root of Chakra and the Kubuntu partion (like /dev, /proc, etc), then simply chroot into the Kubuntu root partion and start recovering (removeing the Catalyst drivers and undoing yoru changes) from the command line (while your chrooted to it in the terminal, treat it exactly as if it was Kubuntu terminal).

[nukedathlonman]

Re: Problem getting to recovery console

Just in case, not sure if you've used chroot for receovery before, but it's very important that when your done!!!! To exit from the chroot (don't "shutdown -r now"), undo the binds, unmount the Kubuntu partion and then reboot what ever way you want!!!!