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Tittel: Getting "joe" to work when emergency booting RedHat Linux
Skrevet av: ATC på 27. ſeptember 2008, 18:24 pm

If the Linux Loader (LILO) has been damaged/corrupted or some other reason dictates the use of a removable boot media for emergency repair, certain steps have to be taken for the "joe" text editor to work.

This method may or may not apply to other Linux distributions.

Tittel: [Solved] Getting "joe" to work when emergency booting RedHat Linux
Skrevet av: ATC på 27. ſeptember 2008, 18:24 pm

1. Boot the RedHat install CD, hit enter for "install".

2. Choose "custom" install and to partition using "fdisk".

3. Hit Alt+F2 to access TTY2, at this point you should be able to type console commands.

4. Mount the partition containing "/usr/lib" on "/mnt", for example:
"mkdir /mnt; mount /dev/sda1 /mnt"

5. Now make a symbolic link from the mounted "/usr/lib/" into the active one, for example:
"mkdir /usr/lib/joe; ln -s /mnt/usr/lib/joe/joerc /usr/lib/joe/joerc"

6. Create a temporary copy of "lilo.conf". Caution!! Remember the differences between the current filesystem structure and the one you will be booting with LILO.

7. Type "lilo -C /your/tmp/lilo.conf -D linux" to write the new Linux Loader to the boot sector specified in "/your/tmp/lilo.conf"

(Obviously, "/your/tmp/lilo.conf" is not to be taken literally)