I don't know if this is the proper list to ask about this, but there you have it.
I somehow damaged the /boot partition of my Fedora 31 installation and have tried to use the Troubleshooting tools on the installation media. But the only option in Troubleshooting ---> is to boot into a Graphical Session, rather than to select a troubleshooting tool.
What happened to the troubleshooting tools?
Alan
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 6:41 PM Alan Feuerbacher alanf00@comcast.net wrote:
I don't know if this is the proper list to ask about this, but there you have it.
I somehow damaged the /boot partition of my Fedora 31 installation and have tried to use the Troubleshooting tools on the installation media. But the only option in Troubleshooting ---> is to boot into a Graphical Session, rather than to select a troubleshooting tool.
What happened to the troubleshooting tools?
Live media don't have the "Rescue a Fedora system" option. That's on netinstall/DVD media.
But also I'm not sure what troubleshooting tool you're looking for? The "rescue" option on netinstall/DVD translates to inst.rescue option for anaconda, which launches the installer in rescue mode, offering a shell, or to mount and assemble a Fedora system per its /etc/fstab. If /boot is failing to mount during startup, it'll fail to assemble with the rescue option - granted, you can easily run dmesg to get a hint why it's failing to mount, whereas during startup you're kinda stuck.
If /boot is ext4 then you can boot with parameter 'rd.break=pre-mount' and run fsck from the initramfs.
e2fsck -fvn /dev/
That'll show what the problems are without repair. It's a little handier to run fsck in the Live session, because you can copy/paste the output, in case you want to have someone sanity check things before committing to the repairs. Or to reformat it if you've got a backup of the contents.
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