Description of problem: Originally I tried to boot to rescue mode on a Lenovo Yoga that has Ubuntu installed. I wanted to start rescue mode, then wipe the ubuntu install by formatting the partition (mkfs) and replace Ubuntu with Fedora 23. So I insert the Fedora 23 DVD, wait for the bios boot menu to appear, select the DVD drive with inserted Fedora 23 and boot to that. When the grub menu appears I select tab and change the kernel line to have "linux rescue" at the end and delete the "quiet" so I can see what is going on. Just after the "Started D-Bus System Message Bus" it stops: "Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. See sulogin(8) man page for more details. As this is "rescue mode" and the idea of rescue mode is to be able to access anything that is on the computer even with a messed up password it is tricky. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso How reproducible: I have tried this on three computers: 1: a beefy, selfmade workstation that has Fedora 22 installed on the local hard drive 2: a Dell XPS 13, that has Windows installed (but UEFI disabled) 3: Lenovo Yoga that has Ubuntu 16.04 installed (UEFI disabled) all of them have the same issue Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert Fedora 23 DVD 2. wait for bios boot manager to appear, 3. select the DVD to boot from 4. add "linux rescue" to kernel command line but delete "quiet rhgb" 5. boot to it 6. wait for the "cannot open access to console" Actual results: cannot get to a rescue command line mode to rescue/delete/fix the system Expected results: be able to rescue/delete/fix the system using a command line Additional info: It does not matter what setting UEFI boot is set to, I tried this with every possible setting in the BIOS that was given to me by the different manufacturers.
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