On Monday 20 Apr 2009, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Is there a key I can depress after booting that will make the machine > ignore the failed cycle of onanism I appear to have engendered here and > give me a terminal prompt and I can then work on fixing this? Xorg and > Gnome have worked well in the past and I have got them working both with > the NVIDIA card and without. I think this is just a temporary problem.
Alt + SysRq + S - emergency sync Alt + SysRq + U - unmount file systems and remount read-only Alt + SysRq + B - reboot Then select "single user mode" in the bootloader. (with LILO, hold down LH shift; highlight a kernel and type a space and "single"; with GRUB, highlight a single-user mode.) Hope that helps. -- AJS delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
