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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: recovery
You were just overthinking it.

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 9:01 AM Michael <> wrote:

> Thanks I should have been smart enough to realize that
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 11:00 AM Bob Elzer <> wrote:
>
>> It's kind of like windows safe mode boot.
>>
>> The recovery kernel boots with enough stuff for you to do maintenance or
>> recovery work on your system. Like performing a chkdisk or maybe restoring
>> a tar file or other things.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 8:37 AM Michael <> wrote:
>>
>>> yes.... but I was wondering about the recovery kernels.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:29 AM Bob Elzer <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is a setting that lets you specify how many previous versions of
>>>> the kernel to show on the boot screen. Whenever the kernel is updated the
>>>> new kernel will be listed as the first and selected kernel on the boot
>>>> screen, with the previous kernels listed below it followed by the recovery
>>>> kernel.
>>>>
>>>> You can interrupt the countdown to the boot process by hitting the ESC
>>>> key.
>>>>
>>>> After which you can use the up and down keys to select the kernel you
>>>> want to boot followed by the return key.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 7:12 AM Michael <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There ia a screen in which you can select which kernel you wish to
>>>>> load. it gives a list of kernels and every other one is a recovery kernel.
>>>>> How do you use those kernels?
>>>>>
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