Leaving "recovery mode"

Pete Holsberg pjh42 at pobox.com
Fri Oct 5 23:41:02 UTC 2007


Derek Broughton pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 
10/5/2007 5:35 PM:
> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>
>   
>> On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:55:17 -0400
>> Pete Holsberg <pjh42 at pobox.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>> Just type "exit".
>>>>         
>>> I'll do that, but I'm skeptical. At that point, the graphical thingy has
>>> not been started.
>>>       
>> Don't be skeptical, just do it ! ;-)
>>     
>
> Famous last words :-)
>
>   
>> It has always worked for me in Ubuntu since... since so long that I
>> can't even remember, probably Warty !
>> Maybe it doesn't work in Gutsy, don't know, as it's not even
>> been released yet, but I bet it will still work.
>>     
>
> It works, of course, because "exit" just lets you continue the boot process
> where it was temporarily suspended.  

Ah, that's GOOD! :-)

> In fact, there was a recent thread
> about how to actually _force_ a reboot at this point - and afaik, you
> can't.
>   
OK. How about C-A-D?

-- 
Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the 
few who are rich...
-- John F. Kennedy
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