F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

Thu Jan 22 02:10:29 UTC 2009

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.
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