On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:31:41AM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: > 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. does ctrl+alt+backspace kill X ? or ctrl+alt+f1 ? > > 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. > -- "You know, sometimes when you study history, you get stuck in the past." - George W. Bush 06/25/2001 on what he told Russian president Vladimir Putin, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal
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