There are several recovery disks available that could serve as examples. https://www.system-rescue.org/
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 7:12 AM Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:39 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > Earlier this week, the Fedora Workstation WG discussed a ticket > > brought to us asking for a GUI-based rescue/recovery environment[1]. > > While we all agreed in principle that such a thing would be a very > > good thing to have, we don't really know how to achieve such a thing. > > Additionally, we're not really sure what the scope of things should be > > provided in said recovery environment and what kind of things people > > would expect to be able to fix in there. > > > > So I come to y'all to ask about this and give us some feedback on the > > idea, how to do it, and what kinds of things you expect people to need > > a recovery environment for. > > This sounds interesting. > > The only situation in which I would really have needed a "recovery > environment" was when after upgrading my old Fedora installs to Fedora > 33 or something (whenever we switched GRUB to use BLS snippets, I > think) some required GRUB modules that were split off into subpackages > didn't get pulled in (I think it was grub2-efi-x64 ?), leaving the > system in an unbootable state, which I was only able to fix by booting > from a Live USB and installing the missing GRUB modules. > > If I didn't know what to do (or wouldn't have had a Live USB at hand), > that would have basically bricked my system (or locked me into booting > Windows with its own bootloader). Not sure if it would be possible > with the "recovery environment" you would have in mind, but a basic > "are all the components that are required to boot there" check, with > suggestions how to fix them if they're missing, would have saved me > tons of time recovering from the borked grub install. > > Fabio > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > -- *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it*
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