offer to pick the distro to rescue when there's more than one

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rescue/NEWS b/rescue/NEWS
index aeb6346aa..0722c5328 100644
--- a/rescue/NEWS
+++ b/rescue/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 - drop our "use modprobe instead" insmod since we've kmod one for free
 - include libdevmapper-event-*.so
 - include persistant storage udev rules needed to see new uuids
+- offer to pick the distro to rescue when there's more than one
 - /var/run/utmp is on tmpfs now
 
 Version 1.40 - 6 March 2013 by Thierry Vignaud
diff --git a/rescue/guessmounts b/rescue/guessmounts
index 67ef6c536..9b592f07e 100755
--- a/rescue/guessmounts
+++ b/rescue/guessmounts
@@ -85,7 +85,21 @@ if (@roots) {
     @roots = sort { $b->{version} cmp $a->{version} } @roots;
     # Then pick mga over mdv:
     @roots = map { @$_ } partition { $_->{release} =~ /Mageia/ } @roots;
-    my $selected = first(@roots);
+
+    my $selected;
+    if (@roots == 1) {
+        $selected = first(@roots);
+    } else {
+	print "\n\nWhich system do you want to rescue?\n";
+	each_index { print $::i + 1, ": $_->{pretty_name}\n" } @roots;
+	my $res;
+	while ($res < 1 || $res > @roots) {
+	    print "what is your choice (type the number of your selection or C^c to abort)?\n";
+	    $res = <>;
+	}
+        $selected = $roots[$res-1];
+    }
+
     $root = $selected->{dev};
     $fs = $selected->{fs};
     @fstab = @{$selected->{fstab}};