swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:

> On 2018-06-14 17:01, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> Would any of you like to document this in the manual?
>>> I would because I posted articles like the current one sometime ago.
>> Excellent!
>>
>>> Maybe a separate ‘users-stories.texi’ should be as was discussed
>>> somewhere on a mailing list (as I remember)?
>> I think that this particular section on tools that Guix provides to
>> recover a broken system (and the peculiarities of chrooting into a
>> GuixSD system) can go right into the manual.  This does not preclude the
>> option to have a more detailed step by step guide in a
>> “user-stories.texi”.
> +1
>
> Does GuixSD by the way support dropping to a root shell by passing
> "single" as a kernel parameter? I once used a distro that had a
> feature like that.
>
> Ubuntu supports dropping to a root shell (and memtesting RAM?) among
> more options if "recovery" is choosen in the grub menu. I like that
> feature. If something like that had been possible on this old
> GuixSD-installation I would not have had to resort to chrooting.

If you pass the "--repl" option on the Linux kernel command line (e.g.,
from the GRUB menu), I believe you can do this.  See "(guix) Initial RAM
Disk" in the manual for details.

-- 
Chris