Hi guys it will be hard to explain the mess I made on my system, but it was basically due to mixing repistories with the debian ones, and then trying to upgrade to the recent kali version. I have been tryin fixing the mess with apt-get and aptitude, however in the end I deleted the kernel and now grub is not even showing me the option to load my linux partition (grub menu is loading on boot though, however it gives me only the choice to load windows).
What I need to know is if there's any way to make a "reinstall" of kali from cd without deleting my configuration files. On top of that I do have an encrypted LVM partition which I insist on keeping. I tried using the live cd installation menu, but there's no recovery mode there - when I hit install it asks me to recreate partition tables which I guess is unnecessary and I have no idea whether it would not delete my existing data.
So my basic questions are is there something like a recovery mode (I know where my installation is located - in /dev/sda6, my encrypted partition is in /dev/sda7) or a way to make a new installation on top of the old one while keeping all my data?