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I recently tried booting into the Grub2's menu entry "Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae (Recovery Mode) just to see what was there. It booted successfully, but I had no idea what to do after I was there. My question is where can I find some documentation on the recovery mode and what to do if I truly needed to be there. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.

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The recovery mode is normally used when you need an exclusive admin access to your system. You normally go into root shell and recover/repair the system through the command line.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode

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Thanks, I appreciate your answer – user18432 Jun 13 '12 at 15:14

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