Bug 1374064

Summary: Booting Your Computer in Rescue Mode
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Documentation Reporter: Chris Murphy <bugzilla>
Component: install-guideAssignee: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile>
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Description Chris Murphy 2016-09-07 20:39:16 UTC 
Created attachment 1198832 [details]
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Description of problem:

This section doesn't apply to live media, as it's a graphical boot and the Anaconda rescue mode is text based so it won't work in graphical boot. Therefore inst.rescue doesn't apply, and also there is no "Rescue a Fedora System" option on lives.

What they can do is include a boot parameter:
init=/bin/bash

The problem with using rescue.target or emergency.target is Fedora lives don't set a root user password, and systemd requires a root password to use those targets.


https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/23/html/Installation_Guide/sect-boot-options-rescue.html
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/24/html/Installation_Guide/sect-boot-options-rescue.html