Re: rescue mode needs rescuing!

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On 3/16/20 5:57 PM, home user wrote:
The problems:
1. Fedora Live (made last week, on a USB-2 stick) sometimes freezes shortly after the boot is done.  That is, when I'm typing or scrolling, the display stops changing, the cursor does not respond to the trackball, and nothing happens when I type. The only thing I can do is a hard reset. 2. Sometimes, when shutting down Fedora Live (normally or via hard reset), the CPU fan really surges for a while.  Then bios displays a warning that the cpu is getting too hot.  This is why I've been trying to check hardware.

I assume you're using the original released F31 live image. That doesn't get updated ever, so it's a relatively old kernel now. There are unofficial respins available at:
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/
Or you could try out the F32 beta live.

3. Often, when I want to boot from a bootable USB-2 stick, I'm not given that option.  The boot process goes directly to the normal grub menu. No invitation and no time to hit F2 or the delete key to enter the bios display.

This is entirely up to your BIOS, nothing to do with Fedora. One possibility is that the monitor takes too long to sync up and the prompt has already gone. I suggest pressing the key as soon as the computer beeps. You could also check if there's an option in the bios to give you more time for pressing it.

Conclusion and need:
It will be very difficult and time consuming (but not impossible) to use Fedora Live to diagnose and fix certain kinds of problems.  Fedora Live is not a good tool for this.  Thus my desire for a hard drive rescue/emergency/dracut (or whatever it should be called) boot option in the grub menu.

It really is a good tool normally. I don't know why you're having problems with it. But there's also the real rescue mode on the netinstall images.
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