Systemd and recovery boot

I do keep hitting these little systemd issues, but google hasn't helped.
How do i boot a recovery console using a systemd only boot? I've tried both ro single and systemd.unit=rescue.target on the kernel command line, and whilst in both cases I can see the final message long enough to know that it's recovery mode, it then goes on before I have a chance to actually do anything to (I assume) continue trying to load my DM, resulting in a blank screen with nowhere to go and no way to get there. Obviously because it's now at run level 1 there are no TTYs available to switch to.
Is there a way to get something resembling the old behaviour with systemd where it will either drop to a console, or at the very least wait for me to make a choice?

Sorry it's taken me a couple of days to come back to this, but my day job and experimenting have got in the way.
I copied sulogin in to /sbin and it made no difference at all, so on to step two, using initramfs, which is getting closer, particularly using the break point.
However, nothing here yet provides a true recovery system, which is what I long for. At the moment we are restricted to either a recovery system than will allow us to change system config files, or a chroot environment from a live boot that will let us modify the system generally, but nothing compares to init for system recovery where you can get both with a recovery boot.
For now, and since I already have a clonezilla ISO conigured in grub for boot, I may make a modified Arch ISO that I can boot to with the full chroot set up at login, but it would be far better to be able to boot the existing system to a recovery tty without the extraneous stuff starting. Surely rescue.service or emergency.service should stop all other *.services running, thus giving us a true recovery option.

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The only chance to perform factory recovery is if you have Lenovo_Recovery partition with several .wim files on that. But it seems they are absent. So contact with Lenovo support in your country and purchase recovery disks.
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Rescue and Recovery 4.3 on Windows 7 64 bit won't install

Hi,
I had to reinstall my Windows 7 and when I did that I accidentally wiped away the Recovery partition. I didn't think this would be a problem but now I am trying to install Rescue and Recovery 4.3 on Windows 7 64 bit and I keep getting this error
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Hi,
can you also specify, how did you installed Win7?
Using Recovery CDs? or?
Note, that RnR needs to modify the boot loder of Windows and if the access is blocked, due to permissions, then this situation of course will happen.
However, there is also a second option, on how to get RnR installed and this is using a command line installation which will NOT install the RnR partition.
NOTE: the change in the boot loder is needed only for the creation of this RnR partition.
For more info, please read the following RnR manual:
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/thinkvantage_en/rnr43dg.pdf
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Cheers

Rescue And Recovery Install error

trying to install on my X61 but not sure why it wont install.
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Service Partition - Rescue and Recovery installation fails (not enough free space)

Im am aware about former posts to this subject on this forum, but they didn't answer all my questions, so I reopened the subject.
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I have a 4-year-old ThinkPad R51. Because I was getting intermittent boot-up error messages--"Rescue and Recovery has encountered a problem and needs to close"--with ver. 4.0, I tried to upgrade to ver. 4.2. Per instructions, I first removed ver. 4.0 using Windows Control Panel. Then each attempt to install 4.2 failed with the message: "Error 25025. There is not enough free space on the computer to install or upgrade the Rescue and Recovery environment." Just before that error message popped up in center-screen, I got a Windows message at lower right saying "You are running out of space on SERVICEV001 (Z:}" Of course, there was no way I could view partition Z (that I knew of).
Thanks to the helpful messages above, I downloaded Parted Magic (http://partedmagic.com), burned a boot CD per its instructions, and re-booted with that CD. Using GParted, I saw that my SERVICEV001 partition was merely 590 MB, and 587 MB was in use. So I reduced my C partition by 500 MB and added 500 MB to the Z partition, raising it to 1090 MB. Then I was able to re-boot into Windows and the installation of Rescue and Recovery 4.2 was error-free.
Out of curiosity, I again re-booted with the Parted Magic CD to see how much space on the Z partition was taken by the RnR ver. 4.2 installation. To my surprise, it showed that still only 587 MB was in use, and 503 MB remained unused.
I thank those in this forum whose messages gave me the needed guidance. And I thanked the author of Parted Magic with a $10 donation, as I hope other users of his open source program will do.
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Rescue and recovery problem with new SSD

Hello all,
i am new in lenovo forum.
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T530 Windows 7. I did a full (base) backup to a 64GB USB flash drive formatted FAT32. R&R started by indicating “Rescue and Recovery Medium being created” and after a few hours finished the backup. When I click on ‘View all backups’ I can see the backup created. I then tested the flash drive to see if it’s bootable but the screen only shows rapidly moving white font gibberish over black background. I did the same as a test on a 8GB USB flash drive formatted NTFS (I had to stop the backup since 8GB was not enough space) but had no trouble booting from it. Both flash drives have the folders: boot, efi, Preboot, RRbackups, tvtos and files: bootmgr, bootmgr.efi, fcopy.ini. In other words, the only difference seems to be that it works with 8GB NTFS but not with 64GB FAT32. Is that the issue or just coincidence?
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The readme file for RNR 4.5.1 states:
Consideration 7
Unable to boot from a 64 GB USB memory key
When you create rescue media on a 64 GB USB memory key and then boot your computer from the memory
key, an error message is displayed, saying, ?¡ãError loading Operating System.?¡À
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I would reformat the 64GB to NTFS, then run the Create Rescue Media option onto it. Then try to boot the USB.
There is another post out here stating on certain USB sticks, you have to PREFORMAT it, using diskpart command, before using the Create Rescue Media option..
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Rescue and Recovery 4.5: Boot Environment does not list Backups on USB Drive

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Have to reset my router to recovery wifi signal and re boot face time on iphone4s.

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Cannot Boot To Windows After Rescue And Recovery

I used the Rescue And Recovery disks (7 disks plus actually recovery cd) on my T42. I received the cd set direct from IBM. I've used the CDs in the past with no issues. This time after following the instructions and completing the restore, I cannot get the computer to boot to windows. It keeps going back to the Rescue And Recovery program. What can I do?

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Boot into Rescue and Recovery but not Windows

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X61s - unable to access Rescue and Recovery from boot

Is there any other way to access the R&R from boot? and what's the unattend answer file anyway?
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How do I go to R&R if not through the thinkvantage button?
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After installing all lenovo updates for n500 I cant access the boot rescure and recovery anymore!!!

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i´ve just installed all actual updates for the n500, including a bios update. since then I cant get into the boot up utilities(I think its called thinkvantage) anymore with the lenovo button when booting up (instead, I get a menu where I can choose where to boot from!!!!)... when pressing f8 on bootup there used to be something like "repair system" in the menu, its gone too...
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I am beginning to love lenovo. and vista. I´ve used the boot disk found at http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-54483
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edit: lucky me, I had a dart cd to repair the boot manager. so I can at least boot again. but, still no solution to my problem... any ideas?
edit 2: I tried again. this time, no error. but still, I have the same problem with a not working thinkvantage. any ideas?
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Help: Dual Boot Vista/XP (multiple partitions) with Rescue and Recovery?

So I re-installed my Thinkpad and want to dual boot Windows XP and Vista Ultimate on separate partitions. I'm using the Windows XP pre-load and a separately licensed Vista Ultimate.
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I don't want to blow it and have to redo the whole thing. Help would be much appreciated!
edit: This didn't work, as RnR only allows you to backup as many as partitions as your base image had....
Message Edited by leesiulung on 01-21-2009 08:25 PM

hi
you say that you have a vista Ultimate did you try making a windows image from the back up and recovery in vista? in that way both of your xp and vista can be save to an hdd or a set of DVD'S(as a back up image)
else try using acronis true image it should work out ...good luck!
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