diff -Nru friendly-recovery-0.2.38ubuntu1/debian/changelog friendly-recovery-0.2.38ubuntu1.1/debian/changelog
--- friendly-recovery-0.2.38ubuntu1/debian/changelog	2018-10-15 13:02:45.000000000 +0000
+++ friendly-recovery-0.2.38ubuntu1.1/debian/changelog	2019-06-25 12:52:16.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+friendly-recovery (0.2.38ubuntu1.1) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Steven Clarkson ]
+  * lib/systemd/system-generators/friendly-recovery:
+    Symlink default.target to earlydir instead of normaldir to be
+    able to access recovery mode even if default target has been set
+    via systemctl set-default (LP: #1821252).
+
+ -- Ioanna Alifieraki <ioanna-maria.alifieraki@canonical.com>  Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:07:01 +0100
+
 friendly-recovery (0.2.38ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium
 
   [ Dimitri John Ledkov ]
diff -Nru friendly-recovery-0.2.38ubuntu1/lib/systemd/system-generators/friendly-recovery friendly-recovery-0.2.38ubuntu1.1/lib/systemd/system-generators/friendly-recovery
--- friendly-recovery-0.2.38ubuntu1/lib/systemd/system-generators/friendly-recovery	2018-10-15 13:00:35.000000000 +0000
+++ friendly-recovery-0.2.38ubuntu1.1/lib/systemd/system-generators/friendly-recovery	2019-06-25 12:51:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 for cmdline_arg in "$@"; do
 	if [ "$cmdline_arg" = "recovery" ]
 	then
-		ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/friendly-recovery.target $normaldir/default.target
+		ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/friendly-recovery.target $earlydir/default.target
 		break
 	fi
 done