On 12/03/2012 04:28 PM, Jack Wilborn wrote: > I forgot to add that I have an 'NVIDIA GeForce" card. I wonder if the > change to a VGA display via a cable change is part of the problem. I > also wonder if there is some way to get control of the machine before it > completes the restart or boot. It responds to CTL-ALT-DEL keys and > reboots, but is there any other combination that will just give me > control in a command line? If it is a dual head graphic card try to connect the monitor to the other connector. There may be a phantom TV port on this card (with no actual TV connector on it) which gets chosen as the output. You can disable the TV part by passing video=TV-1:d or video=TV-2:d to kernel. You can add these options to "append" field in yaboot.conf Example: image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="video=TV-1:d" Boot the machine using install DVD. On boot prompt type: rescue64 choose the apropriate options until you get the "Enter rescue mode" screen, then chose your root partition and choose to execute shell in the root filesystem. You will have the familiar command line environment. You can edit yaboot.conf using vi or nano to add wanted options to "append" field. You can install openssh-server with intention to log into the machine using ssh after reboot. Type exit, and choose reboot. Milan
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