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Recover a system with Live Boot

Recover a system with Live Boot - Linux Tutorial

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Recover a system with Live Boot

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- [Instructor] If something goes wrong on your system, one way to approach recovering it is to start up from a live boot environment, like the one that's provided on many installation images. Starting from a live boot environment gives you a stable, reliable platform from which to explore a broken system. A live environment gives you the opportunity to check out hardware, view logs, repair file systems, and even chroot into the existing system and fix broken updates and configurations. A good first step when you're rescuing a system is to check out the file system that it had stored on. Sometimes a live environment will automatically mount file systems it finds, and in order to check the file system you'll need to unmount it. If it's encrypted you'll need to open the encrypted container before you scan the file system. Then you need to find the device named check. I'll switch over to my system here. I've plugged in an installer disk into my regular machine and booted it into the live…

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