Pseudogeekery yields pseudosolutions
Apr. 2nd, 2012 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceSo I noodled on the internets and found a way to hack the grub bootloader, which yielded me a functioning command line - and no way to type into it, because it wouldn't recognise instructions from my keyboard even though it knew what type it was. Le sigh.
So I got out of there and rebooted with the generic horrible keyboard that came with the computer, did it all again, and got a command line I could actually use - except that of course I can't actually use it, because I never have used it except in emergencies and under instruction from gurus and geeks.
Next step, then, raise the run level and see what happens. I'm not actually expecting a gui, but there's always hope... (except that I'm chicken, and it's coming up suppertime, so I'm ducking out of it to create a ginger mango chicken coconut dish for K)
So I got out of there and rebooted with the generic horrible keyboard that came with the computer, did it all again, and got a command line I could actually use - except that of course I can't actually use it, because I never have used it except in emergencies and under instruction from gurus and geeks.
Next step, then, raise the run level and see what happens. I'm not actually expecting a gui, but there's always hope... (except that I'm chicken, and it's coming up suppertime, so I'm ducking out of it to create a ginger mango chicken coconut dish for K)