Graphical Rescue Mode

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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On 04/04/2012 11:38 AM, Mike Manilone wrote:
> I think if there's a "Graphical Rescue Mode" ("GRM"), that would
> be great and friendly to end-users. I know many users who can't
> rescue their systems from a shell. The work needs a lot of
> knowledge about Linux and shell. But a new user can't learn soon or
> even they never want to learn about them. However, new users often
> made mistakes. So I thought about a GRM. Just like Windows' one.

Isn't that kinda what a LiveCD is? For "administrator" rescues I
generally use the text rescue mode but on occasions where I've wanted
a graphical environment on a "dead" box I've used the LiveCD.

My mother's HD blew up recently and until I could get down to sort
things out properly I sent her instructions to burn and boot a LiveCD
and then hacked around with things to get a recent backup of her home
directory content available. Worked pretty good and apart from having
to talk her through a few systemctl commands to get sshd up was very
simple for all concerned.

Maybe it would be an idea to extend livecd-tools to allow a live image
to be installed to the hard disk and booted via grub to allow a
graphical environment to boot up when the main install is hosed for
some reason.

Regards,
Bryn.
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