Rescue the Main Disk Partition of a Fedora Machine from Filesystem Errors
2014 August 4
(Hard part from Krzysztof Adamski.)
First cut: boot with fsck.mode=force.
Rescue-mode bootup still mounts all the filesystems, so you can’t fsck the
root partition if it’s horked.
Edit the boot parameters and add rd.break=pre-mount. This drops you into a
shell before things get mounted.
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