Systemd: how to get into rescue mode

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 22:35, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It hasn't. Although the "rescue" grub boot entry's disabled in Fedora,
> RHEL, and RHEL clones.

Ah, maybe that confused me. I did work for RH for a little while and
had to use Fedora. I am not a big fan of the distro.

> Given this thread, it looks like switching from "graphical.target" to
> "rescue.target" is brokem, but booting into "rescue.target" works,
> either by using the sysvinit switches "-s" "s" "S" "1" or their
> systemd equivalent "systemd.unit=rescue.target".
>
> FTR, there's also "systemd.unit=emergency.target", which is the
> equivalent of "-b" for sysvinit.

Good to know. Thank you.

> I also wish that Canonical'd used X and Wayland (or only Wayland) with
> Unity 8. And hadn't wasted resources on Mir, Launchpad, and Bazaar...

I'm glad to know it's not just me!

I've been looking at different desktops and distros for a while now. I
have 2 surprising promising contenders: Deepin, with its own desktop,
and ZorinOS Lite which has one of the best XFCE configs I've seen yet.
I am surprised as I was not impressed by "full" ZorinOS, which is
GNOME-based, with a clunky Windows-like skin.

I'm also planning to evaluate MX Linux on one of my older, slower machines.

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