Questions tagged [rescue]
Questions about process or software that is used for restoring an unusable/unbootable operating system into a usable state. Some of them may be questions on how to recover deleted files or partitions.
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Linux emergency mode is not exitable
I have a problem with installing linux on another SSD drive. The reason is i bought new ssd and i want to bring my current system with all settings and programs, and move it to the new drive. Steps i ...
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How do you type special characters in the logging prompt? [duplicate]
So I messed up my fstab, and now my computer will boot into the "rescue" mode
However, me being a bit clumsy, I have some special characters in my password (namely à and À). Is there a way I ...
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rescue image with ext4magic or extundelete
Some rescue operations and similar need to be done with the the drive or volume unmounted.
Previously I have downloaded an .iso of GParted which I put on a USB stick and booted up from it into a basic ...
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Grub Rescue Desktop PC completely broken
This is not a Dual OS, I only have a Linux Feren OS installed.
I was supposed to install Windows 7 onto it. It says I need to create a partition for Win 7 Installation. Next I hop into Command prompt ...
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Chroot is not working on suse 9 rescue system?
I need to recover a server with suse 9, but I'm facing a very common error of chroot not working. It is complaining that /bin/bash does not exist, but it exists.
These are the commands I've used:
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How to restore the main kernel from the rescue kernel in Fedora 37
I have a Fedora 37 installation which kernel was corrupted when trying to setup propietary nvidia graphics. I lost wifi and all control to the screen. Booting into the rescue option in Grub fixes it ...
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Is it possible to set 2FA so that it cannot be undone in any way - password for /etc/pam.d/common-auth or total deactivation rescue mode?
I would like to be sure that without knowing the password no one can delete / edit the 2FA credentials etc
can I securely password protect them or are there other ways to achieve such a result?
I ...
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Recover files from Linux Raid1 member disk - as bad as it gets
I hope you´re doing well.
I work as a technician in an IT company focused on Windows systems and cloud stuff, hence my knowledge to Linux is sadly very limited. So please excuse any dumb questions but ...
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How to manually regenerate the rescue kernel from the running/installed kernel in Fedora in 2022?
On the Internet I've only found this:
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh $(uname -r) /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r)
but it doesn't work in Fedora 36 and soon to be released version 37, ...
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md: kicking non-fresh sdg from array! md/raid:md0: and then not enough operational devices (3/7 failed)
today I run in a disaster...
I have a RAID 6 with 7 HDDs and yesterday one disk failed.
After replacing the disk and did a rebuild over night I found out that a 2nd HDD was out of the RAID...
So today ...
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Grub rescue error (insmod normal)
I was trying to make it normal from grub rescue error. But, msdos7 is returning that filesystem is ext2. When I write insmod normal I get "invalid file name 'hd0,msdos7/i386-pc/normal.mod"
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Grub Shell: Boot without graphics drivers
At boot, instead of the usual Menu, I am greeted with the Grub Shell. I know how to set the linux kernel and inintrd image, but using the boot command also apparently loads the GPU drivers (my ...
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/boot/efi failed to mount due to unknown file system "vfat" : CentOS 7.5
I have a centOS 7.5 server that does not boot up. Only boots up to rescue mode. This happened after a forced reboot of the server. I got the following error on CentOS 7.5 after checking the journalctl ...
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LUKS error rescue
My disk has some problems, perhaps going to die so I bought a new one and backup the LUKS partition from the error disk with UDisk, but the proccess is stuck at 90% for hours, so I have to click stop ...
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System bootorder not found -
I tried to install Linux Mint Cinnamon on my Acer laptop, but after the installation there comes up a grub bootloader screen with this text.
https://ibb.co/P9r0hpw
So what can I do? It's now enough ...
