My goal is to boot the pi into the console and auto run a script. I used this thread: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/8734/execute-script-on-start-up 

The Pi does boot into console and runs the desired script, sadly the script fails after the second command within the script, resulting in the console not doing anything anymore. (the script did work with the gui)

I can still type but the console doesn't respond to any commands. 

Is there a way the force the pi to reboot into GUI? 

Can I somehow use the recovery mode for this?