Leaving "recovery mode"

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Oct 5 21:35:13 UTC 2007


Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:55:17 -0400
> Pete Holsberg <pjh42 at pobox.com> wrote:
>> > Just type "exit".
>> 
>> I'll do that, but I'm skeptical. At that point, the graphical thingy has
>> not been started.
> 
> Don't be skeptical, just do it ! ;-)

Famous last words :-)

> It has always worked for me in Ubuntu since... since so long that I
> can't even remember, probably Warty !
> Maybe it doesn't work in Gutsy, don't know, as it's not even
> been released yet, but I bet it will still work.

It works, of course, because "exit" just lets you continue the boot process
where it was temporarily suspended.  In fact, there was a recent thread
about how to actually _force_ a reboot at this point - and afaik, you
can't.
-- 
derek





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