[mehlvogel]

Hi,

yesterday evening I tried upgrading my Pi (512 MB RAM version) from 1.1 to 2, the result is, that I my Pi does nothing now when powered on (screen stays black, no rescue console, nothing else). However, there were a few things going awfully wrong.

First, I had the problems described already in this thread and I was finally able to use this piece of advice from Walle above:

Code:

sudo apt-get install -f xbian-update=1.0.2-8d xbian-package-config-shell=2.1.6-51a xbian-package-initramfs-tools=1.3.1-5b xbian-package-xbmc-scripts libhal-storage1 libhal1

But that would have been to easy a solution, my Pi froze apparently so I had to power cycle it. And landed directly into rescue mode since cmdline.txt was missing in /boot and it tried to mount the root partition as ext4 fs. I noticed a cmdline.txt.old lying around there, so a renamed it and rebootet.

I was back in Xbian. Now would have been a GREAT opportunity to take a backup of my configuration files. However, I decided that this can wait just until after I execute

Code:

apt-get -f install

Well, it did install some packages (xbian-xbmc, xbian-xbmc-scripts, etc) and tried to upgrade xbian-update once again. The installation of all packages succeeded with the exception of the xbian-update package, which complained, that it could not make changes to /boot since it apparently was mounted read-only. Anyway, I decided to call it day and right there, you can see it, there would have been ANOTHER GREAT opportunity to take a backup of my configuration files. "But that can wait until tomorrow", I thought.

"But what's that? XBMC asking me to reboot my pi? Why not...." ... yeah, why not indeed

So, what's my point? Is there any way to enter the rescue mode again?
I will try tonight to access the memory card from my laptop (and probably re-flash everything anyway), would you be interested in any kind of logs I could provide?