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Boot into the emergency target

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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 be the correct target if the root file system were having problems. Note that the emergency targets still requires a password. To change temporarily into the emergency target, we will need to boot up our VM as opposed to restoring the state. With our choice one power down, we want to click the discard button to discard the safe state. Once that's done, click on start to start the VM. As soon as you see the GRUB boot prompt, press any key to stop the countdown. Here we could choose a different kernel entry if we wanted to use in the Up and Down arrow keys. This gives us the ability to boot into an older kernel if an update didn't go well. Let's select the most recent kernel which should be at the top. Once it's highlighted press…

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