For the first time in ages, today I tried booting into the recovery mode. Initially I did it by entering the editor mode in grub and just appending "single" to the regular entry, but when that failed (see below) I enabled the recovery entries in /etc/default/grub, rerun grub-mkconfig and rebooted to one of the new recovery entries. Same result, namely: blank screen at the point where console video mode and font normally switches to the settings configured in /etc/conf.d/consolefont. Multiuser boot continues to work as before.
This is not a show stopper because I can make a recovery flash drive but it is annoying. Anyone else seen similar and can help uncovering the causes? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
