Well, that was easy... it took me longer to figure out that the right arrow key corresponded to F2...
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Gordan Bobic <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-06-12 16:18, Ian Perkins wrote: > >> I'm working on a Samsung Chromebook and I expect I have fat fingered >> something, as the system begins to boot, but hangs after "Starting >> console mouse services [OK]". >> > > Are you sure this isn't the standard issue of no getty running > on tty1? Try Alt-F2, it might just drop you on the login prompt. > > Are you running off external media or have you configured it > to run off built in MMC flash? If you are running from external > media check: > > /etc/init/start-ttys.conf > /etc/sysconfig/init > > for the ACTIVE_CONSOLES configuration. I usually change it > to disable getty on tty1 so the boot messages get preserved > for any debugging that may be required. > > > Is there a way to bypass init and drop to single user mode? I think >> there have been some changes since the wiki entry was written. >> Firmware version is Google_Snow.2695.117.0 >> > > Possibly. The newer firmwares dropped the /boot/vmlinuz-3.4.0 > file, but all that means is that you need to specify the raw > kernel partition as the kernel source to the vbutil_kernel > command. I am not aware of any other relevant changes. > > Gordan > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.redsleeve.org/mailman/listinfo/users > -- Thanks, Ian M Perkins
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