Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: grub-common
A couple of times I've taken a bad update that rendered the screen
unusable before the recovery prompt comes up.
Really fun to start sshd blind so I can remote in from another computer
and fix it.
The only other generally working option is to keep a third boot path
from a known-good kernel that touches no bootscripts.
My particular solution was to modify /etc/grub.d/10_linux to generate
the third option. As you can see, it only functions if /etc/init.d
/emergency-shell exists and is executable. So, to enable, ln -s /bin/sh
/etc/init.d/emergency-shell and run update-grub.
** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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provide emergency path for when entire initscripts are broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549682
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