Xubuntu-10.04 Torqued

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:13:30 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> >> Please don't blame Xubuntu for the user lack of knowledge. You can get to
> >> a console simply by using Ctrl+Alt+F2. You can also boot in recovery mode,
> >> which runs as root and enters the console without you having to do learn
> >> the right way.
> >
> >  Should I chastise you for not being intimately familiar with Slackware?
> 
>    Apologies. Ctrl-Alt-Fn works on all systems. My systems boot into a
> console and I manually run startx when I went to go GUI. I was trying to do
> the same thing on xubuntu.
> 
>    The recommendation was to not have X running during the operation.
> Switching to another console would work but I was focused on booting without
> the display manager.
> 
> Rich

Press and hold the right-shift right key right after bios checks
complete to get to the grub menu, if it is not displayed on boot. Then
you will be able to choose recovery mode (normally the second line in
the menu). This should bring you to another menu, where you can choose
to go to a prompt. That is a root console, without X or any other thing
running. ADVISORY: ~/ at the prompt will be for root, not for the
normal user. To get to the user /home, you will need to use 
     cd /home/USERNAME

Good luck.


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