On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 05:30:36PM -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: > I think the idea of the rescue initramfs is when a computer has died > but the drive is OK, putting it into some completely different > computer, and still being able to boot. But this is not a rescue > technique I've ever used. So I'm not sure if it's really useful or > considered archaic at this point?
I have been using Fedora for … a few years now, and I have never used one of those either. Is somebody is using the Rescue images, please speak up. Otherwise, I think we should get a proposal filed for F44 and get rid of them. Best, Zbyszek > But also we run into other problems in our default configuration: a) > pretty soon in the life of this system, the rescue kernel's RPM is > uninstalled, therefore its modules are missing from /usr, typically > resulting in startup switching to emergency.target, and then b) no > root password either, so we have no shell. The user is stuck. They > can't even extract the rdsosreport.txt > > So the whole rescue boot workflow needs revisiting. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
