Rescue Image
The rescue image is a Linux environment used to perform a a root password reset, disk upgrade, filesystem partitioning, and similar virtual machine repair operations.
Rescue images can have also your SSH keys install under root prior to boot, for network access.
Available in the VPS console using option 6.
Rescue images are largely intended for Linux OS distributions. For BSD lineage operating systems you should use a netboot install in rescue mode.
After setting your VPS to boot off the rescue image, the boot process will appear on the serial console (option #1):
[ OK ] Reached target Network is Online. Starting LSB: Load O2CB cluster services at system boot.... Starting /etc/rc.local Compatibility... [ OK ] Started Permit User Sessions. [ OK ] Started LSB: Load O2CB cluster services at system boot.. Starting LSB: Mount OCFS2 volumes at boot.... [ OK ] Started LSB: Mount OCFS2 volumes at boot.. [ 5.185586] rc.local[470]: Generating disk activity for random seed...Done [ OK ] Started Network Name Resolution. [ OK ] Created slice system-ssh.slice. [ OK ] Started OpenBSD Secure Shell server…ion daemon (117.50.163.254:45800). [ OK ] Started /etc/rc.local Compatibility. [ OK ] Started Getty on tty1. [ OK ] Started Serial Getty on ttyS0. [ OK ] Started Serial Getty on hvc0. [ OK ] Reached target Login Prompts. [ OK ] Reached target Multi-User System. [ OK ] Reached target Graphical Interface. Starting Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes... [ OK ] Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes. Debian GNU/Linux 9 rescue ttyS0 rescue login:
You can log in as user root and will not be asked for a password.