how to boot on f16 in rescue mode?

[Adel ESSAFI]

hello,
I followed the official documentation to try to boot in "rescue" mode and
then 
when booting from the live CD
i pressed "tab" key, deleted all the command line and then put "linux
rescue".
However, fedora always boot "normally"!!
I found no /mnt/
sysimage

Thank you for any input.

[Adel ESSAFI]

No entry?

2013/12/8 Adel ESSAFI
> hello,
> I followed the official documentation to try to boot in "rescue" mode and
> then
> when booting from the live CD
> i pressed "tab" key, deleted all the command line and then put "linux
> rescue".
> However, fedora always boot "normally"!!
> I found no /mnt/
> sysimage
>
> Thank you for any input.
>
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[Chris Murphy]

> 2013/12/8 Adel ESSAFI
>
> hello,
> I followed the official documentation to try to boot in "rescue" mode and then when booting from the live CD
> i pressed "tab" key, deleted all the command line and then put "linux rescue".

I don't think that works from live cd, only from DVD and netinst, because this isn't a systemd mode, it's an anaconda feature. It's anaconda that uses it's ninja storage knowledge to find and put together a system, and mount it all correctly with the various faux file systems at /mnt/sysimage.

Chris Murphy

[Franta Hanzlík]

Adel ESSAFI wrote:
> hello,
> I followed the official documentation to try to boot in "rescue" mode and
> then
> when booting from the live CD
> i pressed "tab" key, deleted all the command line and then put "linux
> rescue".
> However, fedora always boot "normally"!!
> I found no /mnt/sysimage

When You have systemd init daemon, You should use syntax as

linux ... systemd.unit=rescue.target

(see 'man systemd.target')

Or, SYSV4 init/upstart option are stil functioning, simply to linux
kernel cmdline append 'single', 's', '1'

But You perhaps will find that systemd is almost unusable in rescue
mode (in 'normal' multiuser/graphical mode it is only slightly
better) when starting from installed system. It is better boot
from CD/DVD/USB stick, Fedora or eg. System Rescue CD etc.

Franta Hanzlik