I'm running Rasbian (Debian?) on my Raspberry Pi, and have allot of auto-starting things in init.d. But what if I want to stop them all from running, and simply break into a terminal prompt? I've tried ctrl+c and I've tried esc, but none of the two seem to work.
Any suggestions?
PS: I can log in through SSH and modify whatever, this is not a question of being "locked out of my Linux". I'm just curious if there are any "hold down key X to go to failsafe prompt".
/bin/sh
at boot instead of/sbin/init
an option?init=bin/sh
from your bootloader - probablygrub
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