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I have an nVidia and I installed the latest drivers from the nVidia web site. I then forgot to uninstall the driver before taking tons of updates and ended with an unbootable Ubuntu installation. Following directions from this page I managed to mount and get into the broken Ubuntu installation using the Ubuntu 11.10 LiveCD. Now the question is how can I remove the nVidia driver and reset it to the original Ubuntu installation via this Chrooting access?

For example, if I run the steps here it won't work because the commands apply to the host running Ubuntu which is the one from the LiveCD and not the one I need to repair.

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  • Unbootable, or just no GUI? Can you get to a virtual terminal, by pressing Alt+F1, Alt+F2, etc (or possibly Ctrl+Alt+F1, etc)? If you can get a command prompt that way, you can enter the commands required to repair. – Marty Fried Oct 09 '12 at 00:53
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    You might even try to get into root mode by holding SHIFT just before Ubuntu starts booting. You can open (I believe it's called) recovery mode. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode (and note that you need SHIFT). As @Marty states, recovering from your actual system will be a lot easier than from a live disk.

    Oh and consider changing the title of your question to include something like "from a Live boot"

     – Tomas Oct 09 '12 at 01:48

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Following the details on this page I gained access to the broken Ubuntu installation and executing the following fixed the issue. After that I took out the LiveCD and rebooted and then I could login normally. I finally reinstalled the latest nVidia driver.

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia

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