Feature Request - Inclusion of Rescue Mode in Desktop installation images

[Petter Adsen]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:46:40 +0800 (AWST)
Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I do not know whether this is the appropriate forum for making a
> feature request, and, I do not know whether the feature request has
> previously been made, but, here goes...
> 
> I have lost the use of a computer, for about a month, now, due to
> trying to install an additional operating system, that appears, to
> me, to be a trojan horse.
> 
> The computer is a UEFI/GPT system.
> 
> The order of the operating systems that were installed, is
> MS Windows 8
> Debian Linux 7
> Ubuntu 14.04
> PC-BSD 10.1.1 (the trojan horse operating system)
> 
> The installation of the last opeating system, resulted in an
> inoperable operating system, and, despite the options selected, being
> unable to boot any previously installed operating system.
> 
> The only functionality of the software installed on that computer,
> was being able to acess the GRUB CLI that was part of the PC-BSD 
> installation.
> 
> I could not find how, using the GRUB CLI, to restore the GRUB 
> bootloader, to allow me to boot into either Debian Linux or Ubuntu 
> Linux.
> 
> After multiple postings to the Debian Users list, and the GRUB Help 
> list, and, finding the the Debian installation iso image, included a 
> Rescue Mode, but that the Ubuntu 14.04 desktop installation iso
> image, did not include a Rescue Mode, a person on the Debian Users
> list, helpfully advised that he believed that the Ubuntu server
> images, include a Rescue Mode.
> 
> So, after having lost a month, and, many hours, trying to repair the 
> system, then, after having donwloaded a Ubuntu 14.04 server iso
> image, and written it to disk, I ran it in Rescue Mode, and, within a 
> (relatively) short time, rescued the system, and it now,
> successfully, boots into Ubuntu, or Debian, as I choose (I have to
> figure out, how to add the MS Win8, to the boot options).
> 
> So, my feature request is thus; can the Rescue Mode, that is
> available on the Ubuntu server images, please be added to the Ubuntu
> desktop images?

Well, you already have the option of "Try Ubuntu" along with "Install
Ubuntu" when you boot from the desktop image. If you choose "Try
Ubuntu", you can launch shells and fix your problem from there.

There are several guides on the net on how to bind mount existing
partitions and fixing the boot loader, among other common problems.

> It would be good, if it could be added to the next (sub-)release of 
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Desktop; I believe that it would be Ubuntu 14.04.03 
> Desktop LTS.
> 
> Thank you in anticipation.

Petter

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