No option to mount read/write in recovery menu

[Elfy]

There is no option to mount drives as read/write in the menu.

Choosing one of clean.dpkg/fsck/grub/network gets a prompt asking if you wish to do so.

Root shell gives no prompt prior to the shell.

Xubuntu 12.04 updated.

You can get around it by doing one of the 4 options that ask - but do we want people running random commands to achieve something else?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.25
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 84cfaee623c9c4c3fbe2be58fb422c92
CheckboxSystem: 6ce041aeed0a2c17b3343b66d157175d
Date: Sun Apr 15 09:06:11 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: friendly-recovery
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jane Atkinson (irihapeti)]

I've noticed this in Ubuntu 12.04. Because I don't do it all that often, I find it hard to remember the remount r/w command, and there's no way to look it up at that point. That makes the whole experience a bit frustrating for me, and I imagine others as well.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Elfy (elfy)]

Same here - and at least we'd have some idea where to go to at least find out what we needed to do.

Given that Ubuntu has set itself up as a friendly distro for people to move to - naming this package friendly-recovery is a bit of an oxymoron for those people.

I can understand the reasoning behind https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/friendly-recovery/+bug/575469

I can't understand the reasoning behind removing the mount drives option from the menu.