powerbook problems

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 12:07:00PM +0100, Paul Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 11:36, Paul Cooper wrote:
> > I just checked this on the i386 version and the same thing happens (but
> > I wasn't asked if I wanted to upgrade gdm). I had to boot into recovery
> > mode and run aptitude to fix it. Is there something similar we can do
> > with ppc?
> 
> Just to be clear what I meant - is there something similar to the i386
> recovery mode on ppc, that would just drop us into a console so we can
> do an aptitude update?

Just do Ctrl-Alt-Fn-F1 (pressed in that order; or Ctrl-Alt-F1 perhaps)
and log in; no need to use a recovery mode.

If you do need something equivalent for some other reason, then typing
'Linux single' at the boot prompt is the same thing.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]