On 18 Jul 2013 18:42, "Eric Smith" <brouhaha@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> Because I was about six hundred miles away from my office, didn't want
> to take the user's computer apart if I could avoid it, and didn't have
> a drive dock to hook up the user's drive to my laptop.  The user had
> Windows available on the machine, so I took advantage of it to figure
> out what was wrong with Linux and fix it.
>

Without sounding too blunt I hope this does sound like we're entering the territory of "lack of planning on your part does not constitute and emergency on mine" as I have to occasionally remind people at work...

This is such an extreme use case and as pointed out by Lennart as well is not viable on current systems anyway without huge hoop jumping...

This hack of a workaround you attempted once can no way realistically be considered a blocker to this as it's so far off a support matrix it's almost comical to suggest it as such...

You could have used his windows partition to download a live CD and use that as a less fragile solution that would be less likely to cause filesystem corruption and work with a default fedora on lvm and so on... Which as pointed out your workaround would not.