-----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? - -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris Descartes Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61 http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHOYYxdE6C2dhV2JURAp/lAJ0Ur1NdQcz4GLSaRZIE1SsSF1srAgCfS9l8 7vbnllausKRMBdhYmRqt5rM= =pr9w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
