Boot CentOS / RHEL 7 & 8 into Emergency Mode / Recovery Mode
As a Linux administrator, you may need to troubleshoot certain instances and fix boot issues. This is usually achieved by booting the system into emergency / recovery mode from the Grub menu. In this guide, you will learn to diagnose problems and recover the system from emergency mode.
Boot CentOS / RHEL 7 & 8 Linux into Emergency / Recovery Mode
Power on your RHEL / CentOS 7/8 LInux machine. When the bootloader menu appears, press Enter Interrupt countdown.
press Ë Key to edit the current entry so that we can modify the default boot loader entry and log into emergency mode.
Now use the cursor keys to navigate tolinux. You need to attachsystemd.unit=emergency.targetTo the end of the line
press Ctrl + X Key to start with the modified configuration.
Login to Emergency situations Enter the mode by entering the root password.
Reinstall using mount command / File system read / write. This will enable you to edit the file system.
# mount -o remount,rw /You should be able to rescue a failed system from emergency mode. See more Linux guides below.
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