Graphical Rescue Mode

[Kevin Kofler]

Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On 04/04/2012 06:00 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> What I think would be really helpful would be a menu item (next to
>> the liveinst one) on the live images which does the same magic to
>> autodetect and mount /mnt/sysimage as the rescue disk does, but
>> from within the graphical live CD environment. I've abused a KDE
>> Live CD as a rescue disk more than once because it's a much
>> friendlier rescue environment than the minimalist one on the rescue
>> image, but mounting the sysimage manually is the harder the more
>> complex the partition setup on the HDD is.
> 
> That's what makes this hard; supporting the default install layout or
> very simple setups is quite easy. Catering for anything the user cares
> to throw at it I think becomes tricky fast.

But the rescue mode (which is part of Anaconda as far as I know) already has 
code for that, we already drag Anaconda onto the live CDs for liveinst, so 
the code is all there and would only have to be called from the right place!

        Kevin Kofler