On 19/2/24 11:24, Al Puzzuoli wrote:
I’m getting a boot menu, but I’ve tried several sequences of down
arrowing through menu options and pressing enter to no avail. .
What’s the easiest way to enter rescue mode with speech at this point?
I would recommend a "live" image such as GRML - details of accessibility
features are available on the wiki in that case, but there are other,
similar options also.
The procedure is to boot from a USB device into a live image, which will
give you a root shell. Then mount the file system of your Linux
installation and make whatever changes are necessary. For example, you
can run grub-install, upgrade/downgrade kernel packages, or whatever you
need to do. Finally, unmount the file system and reboot.
When I reorganized my installation recently, I switched to a BTRFS file
system and set up automatic snapshots so that it would be easier to
revert to older versions of the file system if an upgrade caused
trouble. So far, this hasn't been necessary.
Debian probably supports this too - it might be worth reading around.
