HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 9:38 AM, sktsee <sktseer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Jun 2015 11:30:05 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>
> > At Sat, 6 Jun 2015 07:30:25 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not
> > for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Answering several suggestions:
> >>
> >> Ctl-Alt-F1 does nothing -- keyboard not working, after all Keyboard and
> >> mouse are USB.  Mobo has no PS/2 Keyboard and mouse are unchanged, but
> >> I have tried spares.
> >> I have tried a previous kernel.  No help.
> >> I don't know how to boot into another user or session -- and unless
> >> it's something grub can do, I'm probably unable because of having no
> >> keyboard once the kernel starts
> >
> > If you can get to grub (which you say you can), you should be able to
> > start in single user mode, either by selecting 'rescue mode' or directly
> > editing the boot line (add 'single' to the end of the kernel command
> > line). I don't know if Ubuntu has a way of starting *without* X11 --
> > with CentOS and many 'older'
> > Linux distros, this would be runlevel 3 (as opposed to runlevel 5) --
> > appending the kernel command line with '3' in grub would do that.
>
> Appending "text" to the kernel command line in the grub menu will boot
> sans X11.
>
> Nice.  I didn't know that.  And indeed it works.



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