On Fri, 2021-06-04 at 14:46 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 17:23 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
What I would like to see is (a) an initramfs that can boot a graphical stack (b) contains the Live OS dracut modules (c) and overlayfs, and wire it up so that the rescue boot entry does a read- only sysroot boot + writable overlay like a LiveOS. So now folks can use a web browser normally, get on irc or whatever, and get some help with why they can't boot without having to resort to mobile or a 2nd computer they may not have handy.
I really don't know how anybody manages to fix a middling computer problem without having a second computer. You nearly always need to research something, or yank a drive and copy files over in one direction or the other. Trying to do that on a banjaxed computer is really difficult.
Yep. You can sometimes make progress with a Live Image but I keep an ancient laptop (circa 2008) around just for this.
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