On Tue, Oct 7, 2025, at 10:53 AM, Marius Schwarz wrote:
> Am 06.10.25 um 13:41 schrieb Vitaly Zaitsev via devel:
>>
>> +1 for removing rescue image. Users can always use Fedora LiveUSB to
>> repair their system using chroot.
>
> This is technically true, but in reality only experts can do this. You
> have to know how to use the livedisk, become root, know your root
> partition, do bind mounts of /{proc,sys,dev} as root, chroot into it,
> find the problem and fix it, before it will work again. Nothing Carol
> from next door would be able to.
Once the third kernel update happens, the 1st kernel is uninstalled along with
all of its modules living in /usr. I regularly see startup with the rescue menu
entry fail to a dracut shell because a needed module isn't available after
switch root. Even if it was in the initramfs, it's unavailable after switchroot.
This means some portion of users have nearly 300 MiB of pretty limited use
files taking up space on /boot. Dracut shell isn't going to help a lot of folks.
We could:
1. Retain the 1st kernel until the next (major) system upgrade.
2. Kernel's 2 and 3 are the most recent kernels.
This reduces space consumption, and improves the likelihood the rescue option
will get the user to a desktop or fully functioning shell, rather than a dracut
shell.
--
Chris Murphy
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