problem with recovery mode in 9.10

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 10/28/09, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: problem with recovery mode in 9.10
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 8:51 AM
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Glenn Holmer <shadowm at lyonlabs.org>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Glenn Holmer <shadowm at lyonlabs.org>
> >> Subject: problem with recovery mode in 9.10
> >> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> >> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:15 AM
> >> In the Karmic RC, when I boot to
> >> recovery mode and drop to a root shell,
> >> every keystroke is treated as though I had hit
> Enter
> >> afterward, so I'm
> >> unable to enter the root password.  ctrl-D
> reacts the
> >> same way, so I
> >> can't use recovery mode at all.
> >>
> >> Anybody else seen this/have a workaround?
> >>
> > Yes, something is very wrong in Karmic recovery
> mode.  It is useless.
> > In my case, I have two Karmics installed on separate
> partitions, the last one was a recent nightly. Recovery mode
> works on neither. I can't even scroll down the fixit menu on
> boot up.  The screen corrupts with error messages when
> I try to scroll down the list and it then is frozen. I can
> scroll maybe one item before this happens or hit the "end"
> key and the next move the screen corruption occurs.  I
> don't know if a bug has been filed or not as I haven't
> googled yet but I'm sure ready to add my .02.  Not
> being able to use recovery mode is a critical bug, IMHO.
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> > 
> > 
> 
>     I tried 9.10 on a fully updated Beta
> version and using the 
> recovery boot it comes up with a selection board and I 
> selected the last one and it did come up as a root login.
> 
>     So you might have something else causing
> a problem.
> 
> 73 Karl
> 
> 
Karl, are you using the 64 bit Karmic as I and the OP are using?
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net