From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O8xLI-0000NS-7Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 15:13:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F2BDE07CB; Mon, 3 May 2010 15:13:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9DDE07CB for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 15:13:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf28 with SMTP id 28so1591820wyf.40 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 08:13:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=zxUuriRhjgTDcn2hMZveGwj/GINAu74nGY+VRfqmNvc=; b=DFvAk6yWkR5WkZu9Rlkr8zvDvcAByzcI+kMJ8wp7whnpbYI6nCrbbkQxFgKstGcziv +Dq0Epsk2O6y6PNtnzwKhHye5K3D23hRsoN1Oa2r5By6Xot5Be38C76KOhkSo2/e3N2Z eiCIuLJCo4DQtJhAwyAQccRpSXriKGv5kHkuk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=qAd0UR0EMKX5JPDqsQcBufp+256ZJHSpYWzJeBHU83X85CJDVi2cMBm1T1FQUgeXlb j3HDRi4asnWAZ6DSF8Saj902yEpdE8X/BA+1PujlBbpw/X1EcM0qz4qGpH4ZIiGXjl0f pRmT7hzJ46cF7u9FhHEqXVzgDicDA0AA2ly8s= Received: by 10.216.89.213 with SMTP id c63mr3678237wef.8.1272899612630; Mon, 03 May 2010 08:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-185-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.185]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e82sm1638246wej.16.2010.05.03.08.13.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 03 May 2010 08:13:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 17:10:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.33-ck; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: KH References: <201005031656.04901.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4BDEE66B.2020802@konstantinhansen.de> In-Reply-To: <4BDEE66B.2020802@konstantinhansen.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005031710.09911.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: de54d353-860b-431f-8ade-25254c8e0b39 X-Archives-Hash: 870c671fef490f884f90ac849292b1e6 On Monday 03 May 2010 17:06:19 KH wrote: > Am 03.05.2010 16:56, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > On Monday 03 May 2010 16:30:53 Colleen Beamer wrote: > [...] > > >> I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user > >> maintenance mode. How do I do that? > > > > At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. > > Press "e" > > Move cursor to the "kernel" line > > Press "e" > > Move cursor to the end of the line. Append " 1" or " single" > > Press > > Press "b" > > > > This will load the kernel and run a modified start-up sequence (not the > > regular init command). You get a root shell which is quite limited but > > usually adequate for repairing broken system. > > > > In a way, it's very similar to booting into a LiveCD without having to go > > and find the CD first > > Hi, > > and again I learnd something I didn't know, jet. > > Anyway I also would try to follow Dales advise with pressing "i" during > boot. There's all kinds of neat tricks you can do when booting or starting up. grub passes parameters and options to the kernel just like your shell passes parameters and options to a program you start. There's docs about it in /usr/src/linux/Documentation but be warned - they are written by kernel devs and most of them seem to assume the reader also knows as much as a kernel dev. So it can be hard going sometimes. A neat trick I use often is to append "init=/bin/bash" to the grub line. This runs bash after the kernel is loaded, not the usual init. You can't logout as normal though - try it and see :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com