[Intuition]

So, I have successfully managed to get my O2 back working again. 

Hadn't booted it up since 2019. Was afraid it was going to pop like the old Octane Power Supply did. 

It booted up ok and I had two different O2 drives.

One that came with it and the other from Acronym which is a clean install of Irix 6.5.xx with nothing on it yet. 

I had an issue where I couldn't log into any profiles and for whatever reason... Irix was booting right into Root vs having me choose a profile and then login. 

Noticed that if I logged out I could not login to any of the profiles and had to pull the plug. 

Found info on the web and decided to hook up the O2 drive as a 2nd mounted volume in the Octane would allow me to access the root directory... and change the passwrd txt file with no permissions issues. So I did... removed the encrypted entry in jot text editor... saved.. and voila... I could enter SU mode in the terminal once the drive was back in the O2.

Ran SU and did 

passwd for root and all the profiles... entering twice with no entry effectively making it no passwords. 

Tha worked. Yay. 

Anyways... in the meantime I had purchased a drive from GIjoe77. It has a ton of stuff on it. Alias 5 through 9... Softimage 3D / XSI... I mean the drive is packed. 

Only issue.... when I boot up this drive... the mouse stops responding. It stays lit up. But... doesn't move. I mean... it does for like 2 seconds.. then stops. 

Thought... maybe the mouse input fried... but... when I inserted either of my other two O2 drives... they both boot up normally and the mouse works fine. 
Back to GIJoe77's drive... and same thing. Mouse isn't moving. 

So I guess my question is... IS there a way to use the keyboard and some hotkey combos to force a terminal open and then force the mouse to start working?