On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:20:22 +0200 Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> (2025-04-21): > > The latter would be at least consistent with the behaviour of rescue > > mode for "usual filesystems" (presenting the user a list of > > possibilities, which partition to mount as root filesystem). > > > > Would it be possible, to ask the user for input, if the automatic > > tries mentioned in [1] above all fail? > > Possible yes, desirable unsure. > > Others might disagree, but I consider d-i's rescue mode a possibly helpful > tool to unstuck a system that was created via d-i (e.g. some packages > broke badly, all initramfses are corrupted, the system no longer boots, > rescue mode makes it possible to detect+mount things, deploy a fix, a > revert, a workaround, yay), and absolutely not a general purpose sysadmin > tool (grml and friends would be equipped much better for such things).
Yet it notoriously fails at doing even just that: d-i creates brtfs filesystems with a default @rootfs subvolume, but the rescue mode currently doesn't attempt to mount the same volume if a btrfs partition is found. Martin-Éric
