On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 07:26:44PM -0600, dan wrote:
Howdy,
I was installing Audacity when I encountered a total lock-up failure.
After reboot, the only thing that comes up is GNU GRUB
(grub>) I tried to reinstall off of my original distro disks using the
upgrade mode because I have gobs of files that I presently can not get
to and I don't want to wipe the hard drive clean and start over loosing
all my data. When I try to do the reinstall/upgrade I get an error
message telling me that /usr/tmp is a directory and should be a symbolic
link I should return it to the state of a symbolic link and restart the
upgrade.
Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated..
Steve Ringwald has a useful approach but I would do all this using
linux rescue and in his solution he assumes that his boot partition
is on its own partition. We have no evidence that is true on your
system so take note of that is trying to do what he suggests.
But as too your original question /usr/tmp should be symbolically
linked to /var/tmp.
