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I have a fubar'd Squeeze VM that displays a blank black screen on startup. Loader is grub, and the VM is running on Xen XCP 1.1.0, connected via XenCenter 6.0. VM ran fine until I did some hacking and set the resolution obviously too high. Is there a key sequence I can press that will boot to the command line? I've tried Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, "e", to no avail.
Just pass the runlevel you want (3) as a kernel boot option. You should have a boot menu which will probably be grub based, if you see something with a countdown timer when you boot that will be it, you need to press [tab] or [a] to modify the arguments - just add ' 3' at the end and press [enter].
Just pass the runlevel you want (3) as a kernel boot option. You should have a boot menu which will probably be grub based, if you see something with a countdown timer when you boot that will be it, you need to press [tab] or [a] to modify the arguments - just add ' 3' at the end and press [enter].
You do realise this is the Debian forum right? By default run level 3 will be the same as the default runlevel (which is 2).
that is not Debian it appears to be the virtual machines equivalent to the bios boot device menu.
In you first post you explicitly said you are using grub.
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