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Restoring original image
I ssh'ed into my NV+ v2 and screwed it up by upgrading the distro. (Yeah I'm an idiot I know). I'm trying to now restore it back to how it was. Frontview doesn't work, but I still have ssh. I h...
It worked!
I'll summarise my steps, for future people:
1. I ssh'ed in and did an rsync to another system to ensure that I had a full backup. This wasn't needed, but good to do.
2. I tried to umount /c or remount as ro, but couldn't, so I left this.
3. I did: rm -rf --no-preserve-root --one-file-system / [NOTE: THE --one-file-system IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! YOU WILL LOSE YOUR DATA IF YOU SKIP THIS PART]
4. run "sync"
5. Pull the power (maybe there's a better way to shutdown, but I don't know how)
6. Plug it back in
6. Put a paperclip in the reset hole at the back and switch on. When the Boot Menu comes up on the LCD display, release
the paperclip.
7. Press the "backup" button to select "OS Reinstall". NOT FACTORY RESTORE!
8. Press reset button with paperclip to confirm selection
And that was it - it was all restored.
Note to mdgm - thank you very much for your help. Can I suggest that you modify the forum to do: rm -rf --no-preserve-root --one-file-system / to be safer.
I'll summarise my steps, for future people:
1. I ssh'ed in and did an rsync to another system to ensure that I had a full backup. This wasn't needed, but good to do.
2. I tried to umount /c or remount as ro, but couldn't, so I left this.
3. I did: rm -rf --no-preserve-root --one-file-system / [NOTE: THE --one-file-system IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! YOU WILL LOSE YOUR DATA IF YOU SKIP THIS PART]
4. run "sync"
5. Pull the power (maybe there's a better way to shutdown, but I don't know how)
6. Plug it back in
6. Put a paperclip in the reset hole at the back and switch on. When the Boot Menu comes up on the LCD display, release
the paperclip.
7. Press the "backup" button to select "OS Reinstall". NOT FACTORY RESTORE!
8. Press reset button with paperclip to confirm selection
And that was it - it was all restored.
Note to mdgm - thank you very much for your help. Can I suggest that you modify the forum to do: rm -rf --no-preserve-root --one-file-system / to be safer.
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