The Long Goodbye

[dragoran]

Andy Green wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> Why does "booted from the install media in recovery mode" not feature 
> in this anywhere?  Then you could have wgetted
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-7.i386.rpm 
>
>
> from inside the recovery boot and installed it after a chroot or with 
> --root= on rpm.
>
> Yesterday I rendered this laptop unbootable by broken code I added to 
> the iwlwifi driver sources: I was back up in five minutes thanks to 
> the recovery boot, deleting the driver and rebooting into the kernel 
> so I could fix it and go on.
>
> That experience, like each time I use the recovery boot, left me 
> feeling grateful for the feature and empowered, that even with a half 
> trashed system I can force it back to life.  Whereas without it, you 
> were left feeling very different.

same here wanted to install d80211 and deleted all my kernel modules by 
acciedent (only noticed after reboot; only one kernel installed) I 
reinstalled the kernel in rescue mode and the system was up and running 
again in less then 10 min.