Repeatedly spamming the Escape or Ctrl+C keys has always given you a root shell during boot
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- Spamming the Esc key on Karmic bootup causes fsck to quit, leaving a root shell on tty1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/472301 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs