On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:21:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 4/16/19 9:08 AM, Beartooth wrote: >> Last week, for instance, I managed to so foo a brand new laptop >> that anything I did on the login screen killed it. (I'd've tried a >> repair if I'd been able to remember how to boot straight into single >> user, or find out again how. I spent a few days trying, and then just >> put the install disc back into it. <sigh>) > > Add "single" to the kernel command line. You will need the root > password. Remember, the minute I typed my password at the login screen, I lost all electronic contact. No response to mouse nor keyboard. The machine eventually displayed an error message, and sometimes after another long interval a second error message. But that was all. I'd've tried to use those messages -- I had an inkling what to do and how -- but I'd've had to do it *before* the machine got to the login display. Iirc, that used to be doable, and I think some kind soul walked me-on-another-PC through doing it on a problem PC, long ago. Of course the ability's existence was one thing that meant no machine that a bad guy could get to physically could be secure; lots of other things in life have that problem. <shrug> I *believe* that, IF (big if) I could get the machine to boot from a live medium, I'd've been able -- somehow -- to use that live OS to mount the hard drive, and edit its grub.conf or something. But I never really knew how to do the mount. -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
