F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

Casey Dahlin cdahlin at redhat.com
Thu Jan 22 02:12:45 UTC 2009


Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2009/01/21 20:55 (GMT-0500) Casey Dahlin composed:
>
>   
>>> ...Even then, with F10 using a 0 second 
>>> wait at the grub prompt, it's almost impossible to catch grub in time to 
>>> specify the runlevel or init=/bin/sh.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Ctrl+Alt+F2
>>     
>
> Not much help when system is configured to start X automatically, and X
> proceeds to lock up the whole system because of an Intel video chip's broken
> driver.
>   
And how does allowing graphical root login fix that?

--CJD




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