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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