Graphical Rescue Mode

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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On 04/04/2012 12:06 PM, Mike Manilone wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 11:59 +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>> 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.
> Surely it also works. However, can it integrate to the main
> release? Then it can be useful.
> 

Doing that by hand isn't so hard for simple cases (add some users with
the right uid/gid, meddle with some mounts, maybe turn on some
services). This is all I've generally needed when doing this kind of
thing and it works well.

If you're wanting to start a complex environment (say, a server with
multiple services running and a non-trivial configuration) then I
think that's a much harder problem to solve.

Regards,
Bryn.
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