On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:10 +0100, François Patte wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Timms a écrit : > > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> so I burned a Fedora-7 rescueCD and tried that, > >> but it seems I was then supposed to insert the system DVD. > > > > I forget how you get it to the rescue environment, but it is something > > like: > > - edit the cd's boot command to be: linux rescue, hit enter > > - wait for anaconda to load in rescue mode. > > - answer Q on keyboard. > > - answer question do you want to activate network and so-on > > - environment tries to find the installed fedora system on the hard disk. > > - answer mount|read only| dont mount > > - if you mount it you can: > > - vi /mnt/sysimage/etc/whatever to fix your problem > > Unfortunately it is useless in some cases: I recently made a mistake > writing an entry in fstab and the system did not boot... I came to > rescue disk, but it was unable to mount proporly the system on > /mnt/sysimage and vi was not working because of lack of shared > libraries.... I had to use ed! > > WISH: could the rescuecd have a static linked version of vi? Rescue doesn't have vim. It -does- have a working vi. (I used it more then once... though I've yet to test vim under F8/rescue) Very weird. P.S. you can always chroot /mnt/sysimage... and then you have full vim to work with. - Gilboa
