System recover

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 03:11:38PM -0700, George Farris wrote:

> Just went through a hassle trying to recover a system.  Eventually
> dropped a Fedora Core disk in and recovered Ubuntu with that.  FC has
> the nice feature that if you type rescue it will search the system for
> your install and then tell you to chroot.  Easy, easy to recover.  Hope
> Breezy can match something like this.

Have you tried typing "rescue" at the prompt on an Ubuntu 5.04 (hoary)
installation CD?  ;-)

It provides this kind of functionality already, though it doesn't guess
which partition you want (it asks you to choose from a list).

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 - mdz