vi almost unusable in recovery console

[NoOp]

On 07/31/2008 10:36 AM, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 
>>> Note that nano doesn't work right either - and emacs isn't available.
I should have ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ read :-)
> 
>> Try editing using nano:
>> sudo nano /etc/fstab
> 
> Nano doesn't work.  Vi with the combinations I tried of vt100, linux,
> ansi and using vi -T dumb - none of them work right.
> You make a couple of changes and parts of the screen don't change so
> what you see isn't what's actually there.
> 
> It makes the rescue console useless in my opinion.
> I'll have to try System Rescue CD or something else that grok's LVM for now.

Try booting to Recovery mode; there you will be given a menu option to
drop to a root shell. From there you should be able to use nano or vi.