Selecting an option followed by ‘Confirm’ will reboot the device into the selected mode (see below). Ensure ‘OK’ is highlighted and press Enter to continue, after which you’ll be presented first with the recovery chooser and the option to either run normally, enter recovering mode, or reinstall. The menu system requires that you tab or cursor to highlight your chosen option. Proceed to select one of the available systems and actions.”

It needs to be captured by Ubuntu Core boot process.Īfter the initial boot process completes, a status screen will appear showing “System mode selection triggered. If the chooser fails to launch, try pressing 1 repeatedly from boot. To access the system mode selection menu, start or reboot the device with the ‘1’ key held on a connected keyboard. See Recovery modes for more details on each supported recovery mode, what they do, and how they can be used. Recovery modes are only available on Ubuntu Core 20 and Ubuntu Core 22ĭevice manufacturers may choose to implement alternative methods to access recovery functionality. Use the REST API to call either the recover, install, factory-reset or reboot functions. Run snap reboot on the device with either -recover or -install arguments. Start or reboot the device with the ‘1’ key held on a connected keyboard

Boot into the system mode selection menu.

These recovery modes can be accessed in three different ways:

But if data corruption issues do occur, even on boot or data partitions, it can still access a recovery mode to help repair, restore or reinstall an impaired device.

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