[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

[Frank Griffin]

On 04/07/2013 11:25 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Sorry to be a pain, Frank, but I've never been able to understand the
> Rescue mode.  Everything I've tried fails.  How exactly do you "mount
> your root partition"?  I went to Console, but every command I tried
> failed.  I then tried the mount "under /mnt" and messed up the link.
> For some reason, even after all this time, I never know exactly what
> it intends me to do.
>
OK, you have two choices.

if you have a local cauldron mirror or can do network installs, you can 
boot isolinux or boot.iso and type "rescue" at the initial text screen 
prompt.  From there on, you pick a mirror as you would for a network 
install, and the only difference is that it will load the rescue kernel 
and run the rescue application rather than the standard install.

Or, you can boot the classic install ISO, and one of the GUI choices 
should be Rescue.

Once you get the Rescue panel, select Go to Console.  Then type 
"drvinst", since rescue tends to lag modern hardware, and probably won't 
see SATA disks without the additional drivers.

Then mount your root partition.  Rescue provides a /mnt node, so you can use
           mount -t ext4 /dev/sdaX /mnt
You can then make the symlink modifications in /mnt/etc/systemd/system 
and reboot from the root partition.