When I download updates for my nvidia geforce 8800gt, the screen turns black and the cursor is blinking at the top left corner. I am forced to reinstall ubuntu. Is it possible to run terminal before I boot ubuntu?
There is something known as root recovery shell. You can access it through grub boot menu -> Advanced options for Ubuntu -> select one that says (recovery mode). You will have several options there, choose root shell. The filesystem in root shell is mounted read-only, so you will need to remount it with read write permissions with mount / -o remount,rw
Another small hack is to press e on the boot menu and add init=/bin/bash line , but I wouldn't recomment it.
There is something known as root recovery shell. You can access it through grub boot menu -> Advanced options for Ubuntu -> select one that says
(recovery mode). You will have several options there, choose root shell. The filesystem in root shell is mounted read-only, so you will need to remount it with read write permissions withmount / -o remount,rwAnother small hack is to press e on the boot menu and add
init=/bin/bashline , but I wouldn't recomment it.