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  2. Safe mode - Wikipedia

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    When you reboot into safe mode in Android, downloaded apps and widgets are automatically disabled, but built-in apps remain available. A watermark in the bottom-left corner also appears if you're booted to either normal or safe mode. Some devices also turn their radios off automatically upon booting into safe mode.

  3. Directory Services Restore Mode - Wikipedia

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    Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) is a function on Active Directory Domain Controllers to take the server offline for emergency maintenance, particularly restoring backups of AD objects. It is accessed on Windows Server via the advanced startup menu, similarly to safe mode .

  4. Runlevel - Wikipedia

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    Single-user mode Mode for administrative tasks. [2] [b] 2: Multi-user mode Does not configure network interfaces and does not export networks services. [c] 3: Multi-user mode with networking Starts the system normally. 4: Not used/user-definable For special purposes. 5: Full mode Same as runlevel 3 + display manager. 6: Reboot Reboots the device.

  5. Magic SysRq key - Wikipedia

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    Before the advent of journaled filesystems a common use of the magic SysRq key was to perform a safe reboot of a locked-up Linux computer (using the sequence of key presses indicated by the mnemonic REISUB), which lessened the risk of filesystem corruption.

  6. BIOS - Wikipedia

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    The user can select the boot priority implemented by the BIOS. For example, most computers have a hard disk that is bootable, but sometimes there is a removable-media drive that has higher boot priority, so the user can cause a removable disk to be booted. In most modern BIOSes, the boot priority order can be configured by the user.

  7. Booting - Wikipedia

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    When debugging a concurrent and distributed system of systems, a bootloop (also written boot loop or boot-loop) is a diagnostic condition of an erroneous state that occurs on computing devices; when those devices repeatedly fail to complete the booting process and restart before a boot sequence is finished, a restart might prevent a user from ...

  8. ACPI - Wikipedia

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    The "It's now safe to power off the system" screen in Windows 10 and 11. Microsoft's Windows 98 was the first operating system to implement ACPI, [ 17 ] [ 18 ] but its implementation was somewhat buggy or incomplete, [ 19 ] [ 20 ] although some of the problems associated with it were caused by the first-generation ACPI hardware. [ 21 ]

  9. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    BSoDs in the Windows NT family initially used the 80×50 text mode with a 720×400 screen resolution, but changed to use the 640×480 screen resolution starting with Windows 2000 up to 7. Windows 2000 used its built-in kernel mode font, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 use the Lucida Console font, and Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 used the Segoe UI ...