From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

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Boot into the emergency target

Boot into the emergency target

From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

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Boot into the emergency target

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- [Instructor] To boot up a system that is not functioning properly, we can use a systemd emergency target. In the emergency target, it doesn't try to mount the root file system. This would the correct target to use if the root file system were having problems. Note that the emergency target still requires a password. To change temporarily into the emergency target, double click the centOS 8-KVM in the virtual machine manager window and click the console button on the toolbar. Now click on the power button to start it up. At the grub prompt, press any key to enter the grub menu. We could choose a different Kernel entry here if we wanted to by using the up and down error keys. This gives us the flexibility to boot into an older kernel if an update didn't go well. Now let's select the most recent Kernel, which should be at the top. Once its highlighted press the letter E to edit. Now find the line that includes the word…

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