rescue mode

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Gabriel Ramirez wrote:


> maybe http://boot.fedoraproject.org/index can be useful
> 

Thank you. I had downloaded it about a year ago when I first heard about it, 
but never tried it. I decided to get a new version, in case it changed, and 
burnt it to disk. It must have taken 15-20 minutes for it to load and 
download the image and whatever it needs, despite a high-speed internet 
connection, but it works like a charm. It is good to know that I feel 
comfortable with BFO as a failsafe.

Unfortunately, Windows refused to repair the installed system and a blue 
screen appeared telling me to remove the new hardware and try again. How 
stupid. I cannot remove the motherboard! I guess if I want Windows, I will 
have to wipe that partition and reinstall it, which is exactly what I had 
hoped never to need to do again when I installed it to that partition in the 
first place. Then, despite not being able to repair itself, Windows changed 
the system clock from UTC to local time, so fedora needed to do a complete 
relabelling before I could finally boot up again. Man alive! Fortunately, I 
do have a working version of Windows installed to a qemu image file, so I can 
still access some of those pesky services that refuse to work without Windows 
(Adobe Digital Editions, Overdrive DRM-encumbered audiobooks, Mobibook 
reader, etc. -- stuff from the public library that I need to access).

Thanks for all of the suggestions. My system is intact and Windows is still 
broken, but after a year of it being broken, I guess I don't need it anyhow.