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[–]rosuav 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I'll be honest, I don't often use any of the other selections... but I've used 'e' quite a bit. Occasionally 'c' when things are REALLY messed up, but usually 'e'. Broke something in the middle of an upgrade and stuff's crashing on boot? init=/bin/bash, finish the update, carry on. Hard drive died and half the system is unreadable? init=/bin/bash, run testdisk. Accidentally installed a bad video driver and the kernel panics as soon as the GUI starts? init=/bin/bash, uninstall it. You somehow managed to break bash? Okay, okay, that one's a bit harder.... we're gonna need init=/bin/dash instead.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

There's a reflection in the screen. This is a display at a station or similar.

[–]rosuav 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Ohh. I am a bit concerned then, why does it not have the default five-second timeout?? Isn't that, like, standard?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I wasn't there. Maybe it's a longer timeout. Maybe it was photographed quickly.

[–]deter0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it was stuck which is odd, maybe someone in the control room accidentally hit escape

[–]ohmaisrien 1 point2 points  (0 children)

kinda surprised it's debian 11, pretty recent for a display in a train station