Hi,
I had set up XDM with XFCE, but due to some display incongruity it would not work properly, and I could not exit out of it to return to the shell. I tried several key combinations to try to get out of X, and then rather foolishly started up from the USB installation stick (8.3 amd64) to try to get a shell going to disable XDM so that I could reconfigure it later.
The 'emergency holographic shell' found in the installation menu never presented itself, and while looking through the list of items in the post-installation configuration for an alternative, I accidentally hit my enter key over 'Fdisk'. So I just accepted the first question ("Do you want to keep your geometry?"), hit Q ('Finish') and 'Cancel' on the next window about the boot manager, and exited the installation. However unfortunately this seems to have committed changes to disk, as I am no longer able to start up.
I guess I basically destroyed my filesystem, but I never altered the partition table, so I presume there is still hope for me. Where should I start in recovering my system?
Thanks.
I had set up XDM with XFCE, but due to some display incongruity it would not work properly, and I could not exit out of it to return to the shell. I tried several key combinations to try to get out of X, and then rather foolishly started up from the USB installation stick (8.3 amd64) to try to get a shell going to disable XDM so that I could reconfigure it later.
The 'emergency holographic shell' found in the installation menu never presented itself, and while looking through the list of items in the post-installation configuration for an alternative, I accidentally hit my enter key over 'Fdisk'. So I just accepted the first question ("Do you want to keep your geometry?"), hit Q ('Finish') and 'Cancel' on the next window about the boot manager, and exited the installation. However unfortunately this seems to have committed changes to disk, as I am no longer able to start up.
I guess I basically destroyed my filesystem, but I never altered the partition table, so I presume there is still hope for me. Where should I start in recovering my system?
Thanks.