Description of problem: I´ve tried with both mageia 8 and 9 on 4 Macbook Pro that friends want to move to linux. The problem is when troubleshooting and need to get to Recovery Mode it is not possible, for some reason when I get then message to type the root password for recovery mode it does not take the password, it seems it has frozen, Ctrl D to continue also does not work. It seems like it´s something with the keyboard I need to test since crtl +f f2 does not work either for some reason.. I ended up installing Linux Mint on 3 of them for these reason since on Linux mint recovery mode gives you this option (See image link below) https://softhints.com/content/images/2020/06/linux_mint_login_loop_issue.png It would be nice to have something like this, probably this is one reason to have this feature and make it more friendly with stupid MacBook Pro hardware.. I´ve tried many debian distros and linux Mint is the one that I´ve use that feels more fluid and mageia feel.. Mageia runs smoother that mint btw... I only hope mageia 9 would have Nvidia 418 drivers when replacing 390 if possible. Regards
Systemd has two relevant levels. Emergency is a shell with just the contents of the initrd file available. The root file system and other file systems must be manually mounted from within that shell. Rescue shell is available only if enabled. See https://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd_early_debug-shell
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Thanks for this pointer. Ezequiel : Can we assume that the machine boots (to a Grub menu?) OK, and that you choose Rescue Mode from that? I wonder whether the keyboard problems have something to do with just that: the keyboard. Does 'rescue mode' from the boot menu assume QWERTY, for example; or that configured at installation? I must try.
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Chosing 'boot into single user mode' *does* respect the configured k/b.
Moribund.
Resolution: (none) => OLDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED