installed a little kde, it switched to it on the reboot, and most stuff is missing, no access to a shell of any kind

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Dec 13 17:36:48 UTC 2009


On Sunday 13 December 2009, Goh Lip wrote:
>On 12/13/2009 02:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greets;  See the subject line.
>>
>> If I can get it to do an init3, what would be the apt-get line to install
>> the rest of kde, plus the switchdesk command?  Its useless as it sits
>> right now. I also have no keyboard, mouse works, but no keyboard.  It was
>> working fine under gnome before the reboot, and in F10 as you can see its
>> fine.  Windows opened by the menu have no close button, etc etc.  I could
>> run synaptic from the menu, but without a keyboard, I couldn't enter my
>> passwd to do any more work.
>>
>> Had to use the hdwe rest to get out of it.
>>
>> Thanks all.
>
>Boot to F10, chroot to Mint partition?
>
>disclaimer: I've haven't done this type of chrooting before.
>
Me either, and that is 2 partitions to switch, plus the Mint stuff is 64 bit, 
F10 is 32 bit.  I've been playing with the grub2/grub.cfg, and it it accepts 
partition labels, I should be able to boot even the mandriva-2009.1 on sdd.

About to try anyway, thanks Goh Lip.

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