On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 6:41 PM Alan Feuerbacher <alanf00@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
