On Sunday, December 25, 2011 09:21:09 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
> On 12/24/2011 3:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > gene heskett wrote: > >> And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else. > > > > You actually can, but you have to get down to hacker level. You can > > get into > > grub, show the default boot command, and add the option to go to > > single-user boot mode. When Linux comes up, you are the super-user, > > period. Here a link with some pictures: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/ > > > > I've had to do stuff like this a few times when the boot record got > > messed up > > or something. > > > > Jon > > Anybody remember the Alt-<somethingorother> key combo to bring up the > running of the startup scripts rather than the Ubuntu splash screen > during boot? I thought I had it saved away somewhere but I'll be durned > if I can find it. That's helpful if you are having issues with a > process on startup or a hang during the boot. > > Mark > Vendors tend to move that around, here its the esc key, but flaky, sometime you have to tap it more than once. Or you can usually edit the grub kernel line and add "nosplash". I usually do that with a sudo -i, vim /boot/grub/menu.lst (or whatever its called on your version, could be grub.conf too, depends on the vendor) Some vendors also have a softlinked copy of it in the /etc directory too. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
