I've now managed to boot to console, following a suggestion from Xiaoxiong Weng: inside /lib/systemd/system, change the current symlink default.target --> graphical-target to --> multi-user-target. That boots straight to a login prompt at the console. Now to figure out how to get root, or at least sudo... odd, because while it tells me the default user "linaro" is not in the sudoers group, in /etc/group "linaro" *is* listed as belonging to the sudo group. Hmmm. -- Peter King peter.king@utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-978-3311 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42