Bug#228772: Install Report - discover locked, boot hung
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:06:33PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Matt Kraai (kraai@ftbfs.org) wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:08:36AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > It's really annoying. :) I'm working around it though. It's still be
> > > nice if there was a way to kill/restart the shell on that console
> > > somehow though, or start up another shell on another console.
> >
> > Isn't there an option to spawn a shell at the bottom of the main
> > menu?
>
> Not sure, never actually saw the menu during my initial installs though.
> Is there a way to get back to the menu from the install screens? I
> recall reading you could get to it by booting with some special
> options...
You should be able to reach it by aborting a step or with some of
the <Go Back> buttons, or by adding DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium to the
kernel command line.
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Matt Kraai http://ftbfs.org/ kraai@ftbfs.org
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