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REFORM-RESCUE-SHELL(1) User Commands REFORM-RESCUE-SHELL(1)

NAME

reform-rescue-shell - rescue a system on eMMC/NVMe

SYNOPSIS

reform-rescue-shell [--help] [CMD...]

DESCRIPTION

Run this command from a rescue system on SD-card. With no positional arguments, execute a bash shell inside the system on eMMC/NVMe. With positional arguments, instead of an interactive shell, run the command and its arguments passed as positional arguments to this tool inside the system on eMMC/NVMe This tool takes care of unlocking full disk encryption set up by reform-setup-encrypted-disk and mounts /boot, /sys, /proc and /dev It also copies /etc/resolv.conf from the current system into the chroot, so if you have set up network connection on the outside, then the system on eMMC/NVMe will also have network access

OPTIONS

Display this help and exit.

EXAMPLES

Get a shell inside the system you have on NVMe or eMMC:

./bin/reform-rescue-shell

Run reform-check inside the system on NVMe or eMMC

./bin/reform-rescue-shell reform-check
January 2026 reform-rescue-shell 1.84