typo during install gets me to odd command line

timsch75 · 2013-04-10 06:34:10

I was at step #6 in the EFISTUB section of the Beginners Guide and made the following typo - I failed to add the quotation mark after "rEFInd"

SUPPOSED to enter: efibootmgr -c -g -d /dev/sdX -p Y -w -L "rEFInd" -l '\EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi'

ACTUALLY entered: efibootmgr -c -g -d /dev/sdX -p Y -w -L "rEFInd -l '\EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi'

This resulted in me no longer having the sh-4.2# command line, leaving me with only >.

I try to exit this > command line, but can't

What happened, where am I, and how can I correct this?

thanks, and goodnight.

jasonwryan · 2013-04-10 07:06:08

The shell is waiting for the rest of the command, which will be terminated by the closing quote mark.

You can Ctrl-c to terminate the process.

timsch75 · 2013-04-11 01:29:45

thanks jason. that got me back on track

Inxsible · 2013-04-11 02:46:36

cool, please mark your thread as solved

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