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Add note about disabling safe mode
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In case it's accidentally being triggered by pin 5 being pulled low by an addon board.
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lurch committed Mar 5, 2015
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#### How to boot into "Safe Mode"

To boot into a basic busybox shell rather than launching the NOOBS GUI, you can either:
To boot into a basic busybox shell rather than launching the NOOBS GUI, you can *either*:

1. Append `rescueshell` to the argument list in the `recovery.cmdline` file which is found in the root NOOBS directory.

2. Insert a physical jumper between pins 5 & 6 of GPIO header P1.
2. Insert a physical jumper between pins 5 & 6 of GPIO header P1. If you have external hardware or an addon board connected to the GPIO header, you may find that pin 5 is being pulled low and accidentally triggering "Safe Mode". To prevent this you can append `disablesafemode` to the argument list in the `recovery.cmdline` file which is found in the root NOOBS directory.

#### How to enable using the GPIO to trigger entering Recovery Mode

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