Comment 16 for bug 1821252

Tested friendly-recovery 0.2.38ubuntu1.1 on Bionic.

Ran systemctl set-default multi-user.target
Rebooted and selected recovery mode from GRUB
Got to the recovery menu, as expected.

apt-cache policy friendly-recovery

friendly-recovery:
  Installed: 0.2.38ubuntu1.1
  Candidate: 0.2.38ubuntu1.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.38ubuntu1.1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.2.38ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
     0.2.38 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages