F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jan 22 16:44:00 UTC 2009


Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2009-01-22, 11:19 GMT, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> I didn't know that pressing 'a' repeatedly will get you to the 
>> kernel command prompt.
> 
> Well, strictly speaking you can press any key (I think even Ctrl 
> will do), but advantage of 'a' is that it gets you straight to 
> kernel command line ('a' command in grub).

You mean it isn't supposed to be F8? :-) Wonder where I got that idea 
from, then.

You don't have to "press repeatedly" either, just start holding 
something as the BIOS is finishing with POST.

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