I'm not a regular on this list, but as a computer technician who's had to put up with frustrated users who don't read menus and such carefully (or understand them), let me just say: +1 ! <div class="gmail_quote"> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:16 AM, <a href="mailto:sirius@sonnenkinder.org">sirius@sonnenkinder.org</a> <<a href="mailto:sirius@sonnenkinder.org">sirius@sonnenkinder.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hello everyone, I'd like to know the motivation behind the change made to the recovery mode in Oneiric. For those who don't know: selecting the '(recovery mode)' entry in GRUB now stops in a read-only mode with following menu: Recovery Menu (limited read-only menu) * resume Resume normal boot * fsck Check all file systems (will exit read-only mode) * remount Remount / read/write and mount all other file systems * root Drop to root shell prompt After selecting 'remount' (and pressing Enter after a successful remount), a second menu shows up: Recovery Menu * resume Resume normal boot * clean Try to make free space * dpkg Repair broken packages * grub Update grub bootloader * netroot Drop to root shell prompt with networking * root Drop to root shell prompt So far so good. The problem with this is, that users don't realize that something has changed. They follow some guide involving using the recovery mode to get to a root shell prompt, they see that option in the first menu, and land in a read-only environment instead. The result: "This doesn't work!" "How can I remount the file system?" "I think my file system is damaged." To ask the obvious question: Why haven't those menus be merged? Three of the four entries in the first menu will leave the read-only mode, so why not add 'fsck' and 'read-only' to the second one and make lots of authors and users happy again? :) Greetings, Hernando Torque -- ubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div>