On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 04:53:10PM +0200, Marius Schwarz wrote:
> Am 06.10.25 um 13:41 schrieb Vitaly Zaitsev via devel:
> >
> > +1 for removing rescue image. Users can always use Fedora LiveUSB to
> > repair their system using chroot.
>
> This is technically true, but in reality only experts can do this. You have
> to know how to use the livedisk, become root, know your root partition, do
> bind mounts of /{proc,sys,dev} as root, chroot into it,
Doing all that automatically should not be too much of a problem.
IIRC really old (textmode only) anaconda versions even had support
for starting a rescue shell with the installed system mounted.
> find the problem and
> fix it,
That is the hard part.
> With a continuously growing Linux Community, more and more people will be
> users, that do not want to be able to use a chroot to fix it. They just want
> to use it, not know everyting about it. We have to accept this, or we will
> ever be "the next coming pc desktop os".
For that user base the rescue image is not that helpful too. It'll
handle the "chroot" part, but not the "find problem + fix" part.
> Sooner or later, we will need an "autorepair" function in the bootmenu.
> Having this rescue partition in Windows, is maybe one of the user
> friendliest inventions M$ ever has done. Something similar would be helpful,
> a little bit more reporting about the repair progess as Windows does, would
> be clever ;)
Sounds useful indeed.
take care,
Gerd
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