[Bug 1240360] Re: Rename boot option from "recovery mode" to "safe mode" in GRUB menu

[Phillip Susi]

It isn't a standard; it is just something Windows does, and it has a
specific meaning: don't auto run non essential software, but otherwise
you get a normal desktop.  That is not at all the same thing as recovery
mode, which gives you a text menu allowing you to fsck the root
filesystem or drop to a root shell with the root filesystem still
mounted read-only.

I think that trying to use Microsoft terms for things that are at best,
vaguely similar, just for the sake of sounding familiar to Windows users
is a mistake, but that's just my opinion.

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Title:
  Rename boot option from "recovery mode" to "safe mode" in GRUB menu

Status in GRand Unified Bootloader:
  New
Status in OEM Priority Project:
  New
Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “grub2” source package in Precise:
  New

Bug description:
  This is a request from OEM.

  OEM request to rename the boot option from "recovery mode" to "safe
  mode" in GRUB menu.

  It's more sensible for user.

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