On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM home user via users <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wanting to do dual-boot solely so that I have a fall-back when > weekly patching or semi-annual upgrading resulted in Fedora being > minimally usable and with difficulty at that. .... or when it resulted > in Fedora being unusable. Both have happened to me, the first several > times.
I handle this by keeping the server netinstall media, and booting into "rescue" (or is it "repair"?) mode. This gives me a command line from where I can typically do whatever I need to rescue/repair the system. I also keep a copy of CloneZilla on a USB key as well - sometimes the install media doesn't have a utility I want (I think "diff" is the main missing piece). If you aren't comfortable with the command line, keep a copy of "live" media around for this purpose. If you really want a non-Fedora rescue option the live media can be Ubuntu or something else. (Side note re: non-Fedora live media - I recently experienced a UEFI upgrade that left a Fedora laptop unbootable - even off all the Fedora install media I tried, and even CloneZilla - but I *was* able to boot off of a Kubuntu live media. This was useful as it confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the laptop *other* than some sort of conflict between the UEFI and Fedora, and it also allowed me to recover data off the laptop. After some 3-4 months (and 3-4 UEFI updates) there was another UEFI update that fixed whatever the problem was.) -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
