How to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Rescue Mode for Data Collection (sosreport, vmcore, etc.)

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Rescue mode provides the ability to boot a small Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment entirely from CD-ROM, or some other boot method, instead of the system's hard drive. This article will address the following questions:

  • How to run sosreport in rescue mode?
  • How to generate sosreport for system that can not boot?
  • How to collect system information and logs for Tec...

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