Imaging of partition went wrong - now can't boot-up!
by Completely Clueless from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5KZJY)
Hi all,
I'm posing this under newbie 'cos it's a newbie type of error, I'm ashamed to say. I was attempting to create an image file of a Mint 20 (Ulyana) installation I have on my Thinkpad laptop using a Puppy live CD (which has always worked amazingly well for such purposes in the past) when something went very wrong so that I now cannot boot up my laptop (I just get a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner of the screen). I've been able to boot it up from a live CD and found that the file structure and user data is all intact on the hard drive (thank god) so that the only issue seems to be that the laptop won't boot up any more for some reason. I was using a bare command line instruction invoking dd and that seems to have caused the problem, whatever it may be.
It's very late in my part of the world now, so I'd like to know in advance to save me time what kind of additional info do I need to post to get advice on fixing this problem please?
I'm posing this under newbie 'cos it's a newbie type of error, I'm ashamed to say. I was attempting to create an image file of a Mint 20 (Ulyana) installation I have on my Thinkpad laptop using a Puppy live CD (which has always worked amazingly well for such purposes in the past) when something went very wrong so that I now cannot boot up my laptop (I just get a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner of the screen). I've been able to boot it up from a live CD and found that the file structure and user data is all intact on the hard drive (thank god) so that the only issue seems to be that the laptop won't boot up any more for some reason. I was using a bare command line instruction invoking dd and that seems to have caused the problem, whatever it may be.
It's very late in my part of the world now, so I'd like to know in advance to save me time what kind of additional info do I need to post to get advice on fixing this problem please?