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From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
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>>>>> "vagner" == vagner  <george@vagner.com> writes:

 vagner> i made a mistake in my /etc/fstab on an external drive setting
 vagner> not on the boot device and the system wont boot, it stops after
 vagner> the ethernet detection and then random unblocking device.

 vagner> as the system boots up it does show to press a key to get into
 vagner> single user mode but the keyboard is not initialized yet.

You don't say what hardware this is? But my guess is that it's expecting
a serial console, and so the single-user prompts are going there rather
than to the screen. (I had that a lot when first setting up the RPI.)

-- 
Andrew.