Comment 79 for bug 57153

I propose following solution:

1. add a menu point to grub name "Rescue Mode"
2. boot into an low Runlevel
3. start a dialog-based console program which has following features

- look for and install updates
- look at the installation history and remove possible updates (sorted by install time)
- show last boot log (parses the syslog for the new syslog start and shows the last lines before it.)
- start networking
  + Show Emergency Information from Ubuntu (lynx without navigation or something like this)
  + Rescue Support Channel (Text based minimal IRC which just joins just the #ubuntu-rescue channel on freenode)

With this even a user which doesn't know anything about the user can get help/information.

ps: you can also start that menu if the xserver start fails during booting