[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

Mon Apr 8 14:12:11 CEST 2013

On 04/07/2013 11:25 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+> Sorry to be a pain, Frank, but I've never been able to understand the
+> Rescue mode.  Everything I've tried fails.  How exactly do you "mount
+> your root partition"?  I went to Console, but every command I tried
+> failed.  I then tried the mount "under /mnt" and messed up the link.
+> For some reason, even after all this time, I never know exactly what
+> it intends me to do.
+>
+OK, you have two choices.
+
+if you have a local cauldron mirror or can do network installs, you can 
+boot isolinux or boot.iso and type "rescue" at the initial text screen 
+prompt.  From there on, you pick a mirror as you would for a network 
+install, and the only difference is that it will load the rescue kernel 
+and run the rescue application rather than the standard install.
+
+Or, you can boot the classic install ISO, and one of the GUI choices 
+should be Rescue.
+
+Once you get the Rescue panel, select Go to Console.  Then type 
+"drvinst", since rescue tends to lag modern hardware, and probably won't 
+see SATA disks without the additional drivers.
+
+Then mount your root partition.  Rescue provides a /mnt node, so you can use
+           mount -t ext4 /dev/sdaX /mnt
+You can then make the symlink modifications in /mnt/etc/systemd/system 
+and reboot from the root partition.
+