Description of problem: After booting in rescue mode and mounting the root succesfully under /mnt/sysimage, I get an error about mounting swap and now I have only one option - "Press OK to exit the installer." which leads to reboot. But I do not want to reboot, I want my shell, no matter that swap is not mounted! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 17 Alpha x86_64 DVD How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. break your system; especially make swap present but unusable 2. boot from the installation media in rescue mode 3. go through all the boring dialogues until it says that your system was mounted under /mnt/sysimage 4. read the error message about swap, then click OK Actual results: KABOOOM! - system goes down and restarts Expected results: you get the usual menu which allows you to go to shell Additional info: the exact error message is Error enabling swap device UUID=... device has not been created This most likely means this swap device has not been initialized. Press OK to exit the installer.
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