Thanks, again, @pbear! I'll avoid "Rescue mode" and avoid my Ubuntu live USB and try to create one for Debian using your suggestion. I also just found these links, which I'll pursue later this week: https://wiki.debian.org/RescueLive & https://wiki.debian.org/LiveCD.My bad, I should have anticipated at least the possibility of this scenario. It is, after all, the standard installer. Whereas I won't even look at a Linux distro which can't be booted live. Anyhoo, no, rescue mode is not a live session.
A few options come to mind. One would be to use the Grub prompt to pursue Aki's suggestion. This tutorial might help. Option 2, if that doesn't work, use another computer to download a live ISO (notice there is a separate ISO for each desktop), then burn it to USB drive by whatever method you generally use. Option 3, use the standard installer to create a full install recovery drive. This is what I use (although I also have a live ISO). More powerful than a live session and fully customizable. Needs to be a 3.0 flash drive (not 2.0), at least 32 GB.
I'd hesitate to use the Ubuntu ISO, as its software packages probably are older than those on your installed system.
I'll also find articles about "linux chroot recovery" and carefully re-read all your suggestions and @Aki's.
I tonight started re-reading the section on "chroot"s in Liz Rice's "Container Security" book so I have background on that. She also mentions using "unshare" to run chroot inside a new namespace. I'm unsure whether I need to do that too, but I'll find time to study this stuff more carefully. I guess it's a server recovery July 4th holiday, LOL!
Statistics: Posted by JamesLavin — 2024-07-02 04:15 — Replies 7 — Views 193
