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pop-os / installer

Installer for Pop!_OS & other Linux-based OSes
https://system76.com/pop
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Support recovery shell for upgrades #184

Closed brs17 closed 4 years ago

brs17 commented 5 years ago

Support a recovery shell that appears during the upgrade, to attempt to fix the upgrade.

cassidyjames commented 5 years ago

I know the UX has greatly diverged from the original/upstream design, but the original idea here is that failures would give an option to boot into the live session, which would allow all recovery options. I.e. Googling something in the web browser, inspecting the filesystem from Files, using Terminal, using any included partitioning tools, etc.

mmstick commented 5 years ago

In Pop's case, you're already in a live session, so all that needs to be done is to open a terminal, and maybe automatically open some offline documentation to help step through possible steps.

brs17 commented 4 years ago

Current plan is to continue with the systemd upgrade process and add additional functionality to the recovery partition as needed.