[SOLVED] RC2 @ symbol in top left corner

[rlogiacco]

(29th Jul, 2014 11:33 PM)IriDium Wrote:  Just plug the SD card into a Windoze or Mac computer and edit the /boot/cmdline.txt file

I don't have an SD card reader, I used a friend's of mine laptop to perform the initial installation and when I saw I could drop to recovery shell by holding the shift button I was happy as that was my primary concern switching from NOOBS/Raspbmc to XBian.

Now I'm ready to start switching my XBian from SD to USB HD, but if I need to revert it back I will be unable to edit the cmdline.txt file as I'm unable to drop into the recovery console. Right now I have full access to my XBian RC2 and I can perform any changes I need: I spotted this issue before starting the move.

If that's not enough, I want to be able to switch back and forth from this two root fs locations so the "hold shift to get to console" is a very desiderable feature.

I wish to know why it got somehow disabled (so to avoid disabling it again) and how I can restore it.

I swear I've seen the message at very first boot and probably at second one, but now it's not shown any more, just an @ symbol. I'm on an HDMI TV set which takes a little to regain sync after reboot, but even keeping the shift button pressed before the screen goes black doesn't help.

I would really appreciate any suggestion, I'm not completely noob with Linux/Debian, just with XBian.

Thanks