Paddy Landau (paddy-landau) wrote on 2012-07-24: For my own record and for the convenience of everyone else, I am posting a work-around here.
When you boot into Recovery Mode, enter the following two commands before doing anything else: mount --options remount,rw / mount --all These commands will set Recovery Mode to how it should have been. ----------------- Thank you. Allowed me to install the proprietary nvidia driver... a must, since none of the non-proprietary drivers work for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996454 Title: Recovery Mode starts in read-only, does not mount home folder, and hangs when trying to do something To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/friendly-recovery/+bug/996454/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
