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Create a Rescue Mode for an Asus Eee PC

Booting to Single Consumer Mode

Electrical power cycle your laptop if needed, or power it on.

Repeatedly press
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if you see the first display with Asus’ brand. This screen will even have an recognize to enter the BIOS configuration utility.

Watch for a boot menu to seem. Note the several selections on this screen, like the option “Normal Boot”, “Perform Disk Scan”, and “Restore Factory Settings”. For reference, this is often the grub boot loader menu normally located at [/dev/sda1]/boot/grub/menu.lst.

Utilize the cursor arrow keys to highlight the “Normal Boot” entry if it’s not presently chosen, then press the
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to edit this
variety.

Utilize the cursor arrow keys to highlight the “kernel /boot/vmlinuz…” entry, then press the
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vital yet again to edit this variety

Move to the end on the upcoming line together with the cursor arrow keys. This display could have a fairly long command.

Include the following on the finish from the line, such as a space: XANDROSBOOTDEBUG=y

Press
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to
conserve your adjustments and go back to your first menu.

Press
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to boot
together with the improvements. You are going to be taken to a command line mode that has a pound # prompt.

Mount the two partitions for process and consumer. To carry out this, variety the next and press
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following just about every line.

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt-system
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt-user