This is what https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/LucidBootRecovery says about the recovery mode in Ubuntu 10.04:
---- Previous releases have provided a "friendly recovery" menu when booting into single-user mode, which provided options for checking filesystems and getting a root shell, intended to allow system recovery. With the changes to event-based mounting, and system daemon starting, it's often not possible to use this. ---- Doesn't sound good. -- [Lucid] No installation of programs possible https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513079 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
