Boot into rescue mode

Boot your Victus VPS into a rescue environment to repair a broken boot, fix fstab, reset the root password, or recover files when the OS will not start.

Rescue mode boots your VPS from a small recovery OS instead of your installed system, leaving your real disk unmounted and untouched. From there you can mount the disk, chroot into it, and repair problems that stop the machine booting normally — a broken /etc/fstab, a bad kernel, a lost root password, or a full disk.

Enter rescue mode

1. Open the VPS at control.victuscloud.com.
2. From the VPS controls, switch the boot mode to Rescue and reboot the machine.
3. Note the temporary rescue credentials shown in the panel, then connect via SSH or the browser console.
4. You are now in the rescue OS — your real disk is present but not mounted.

Mount your disk and chroot

# Find your root partition
lsblk

# Mount it (adjust device as needed)
mount /dev/vda1 /mnt

# Bind the virtual filesystems so the chroot works fully
for d in dev proc sys run; do mount --rbind /$d /mnt/$d; done

# Enter your installed system
chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Inside the chroot you are effectively "in" your broken system and can fix it — reset the root password, edit config files, reinstall a package, or repair the bootloader.

• Reset root password: run passwd root.
• Fix a bad mount entry: edit /etc/fstab and comment out the offending line.
• Free space on a full root disk: delete large files in /var/log or old packages.
• Repair a corrupt ext4 filesystem: exit the chroot, unmount, then run fsck -y /dev/vda1.