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+<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+        xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+        version="5.0"
+        xml:id="sec-maintenance-mode">
+
+<title>Maintenance Mode</title>
+
+<para>You can enter rescue mode by running:
+
+<screen>
+$ systemctl rescue</screen>
+
+This will eventually give you a single-user root shell.  Systemd will
+stop (almost) all system services.  To get out of maintenance mode,
+just exit from the rescue shell.</para>
+
+</section>
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