Bug#1102604: debian-installer: Rescue mode can not execute shell when root filesystem is btrfs

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi,

Am 21. April 2025 18:45:36 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>:
>On 11/04/2025 at 06:24, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>> 
>> If we can get fixed before Trixie is released, that's nice.
>
>What kind of change would you accept before trixie release ?
>A minimal change like mine [1] which automatically tries a few known rootfs subvolumes, with no change in the user interface ?
>Or a bigger change like what Nicholas intends to implement or Tyler suggested, which allows the user to select a subvolume ?

The latter would be at least consistent with the behaviour of rescue mode for
"usual filesystems" (presenting the user a list of possibilities, which partition 
to mount as root filesystem).

Would it be possible, to ask the user for input, if the automatic tries mentioned 
in [1] above all fail?


Holger



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