Saturday, February 17, 2018

16.04 - How to boot into GRUB Rescue Mode (Forcing Rescue Mode)

Can someone tell me of the steps to boot into the Grub Rescue mode? I spent some time researching this. The results I'm finding is either discussing what to do when you're that mode and how to get out of it.


Other pages are discussing how to get into Recovery Mode (which I find easy, but it's a different mode.


The rescue mode (I believe) has this prompt grub rescue>.


I'm trying to get into the mode so that I can test out the various commands available for accessing and recovering the system. The purpose is to be able to provide support to someone who is stuck in the mode. I'm trying to test methods of diagnosing the system from this mode.

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