F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jan 21 17:49:09 UTC 2009


Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> Even then, with F10 using a 0 second 
> wait at the grub prompt, it's almost impossible to catch grub in time to 
> specify the runlevel or init=/bin/sh.

No it's not (as I know from personal experience[1]). Start holding F8 as 
your BIOS is completing POST. It's not only possible, it's not even 
especially hard (the hardest part by far is simply remembering to do it).

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478878

...which, btw, no one seems to be working on. Good to know that Fedora 
cares that I can't boot an updated kernel.

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