rescue mode

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> You can also use the much smaller (220 MB) boot.iso CD image. You can
> find it on a mirror site at:
> 
> .../releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso
> 

I already tried that. It didn't work. A black screen appeared with a grub menu 
and it was not able to detect that I already had grub installed to the MBR of 
the first hard drive. It did not give me the normal option of a rescue disk, 
where you hit the ESC or TAB or whatever in order to type 'linux rescue'. As a 
result, I fumbled around with grub commands, telling it which was root and 
kernel and initrd, but with the new fedora kernel boot line that sets up the 
keyboard and all that other stuff, which is impossible to remember in its 
entirety, the boot failed, hanging even before plymouth. And booting the system 
was not what I wanted, I wanted rescue.