fragfutter;553361 Wrote: > It should display a message like "something failed to mount, hit S to > skip and continue" (and some other key to drop to shell and > investigate). But this message display during bootup is messed up. In > the old days we had text and a serial console. Now with all the fancy > graphical boot (plymouth) its getting complicated and introduce bugs > that fail to display the messages. KISS rules. > > But for me the main reason for a graphical desktop is, that you can > easily run multiple xterms. fragfutter: thanks for the 's' tip. Works perfectly. But with no prompt, how am I supposed to remember this? When I next really need it, I'm pretty certain that my memory of this thread will be somewhat past its expiration date. I should probably write this on a piece of tape stuck to the inside of the server case.
Re multiple terms in text mode: Alt+F2, Alt+F3, etc is your friend. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79161 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
