Graphical Rescue Mode

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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On 04/04/2012 06:00 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>> This should work as long as the rescue CD finds all your file
>> systems and mounts them in the right place (inc. bind mounts for
>> /proc, /sys, /dev). If not then setting them by hand isn't a big
>> deal.
> 
> It's still a text-only environment.

Not if you get all the chroot stuff right and then run the subsequent
startx (that I neatly chopped out when trimming my reply).

I so rarely use it this way though that I am not aware if there are
any problems to doing it this way these days (last time I did stuff
like this was probably while teaching a class based on 2.4 kernel
distros..).

> 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.

Regards,
Bryn.

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