On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:14:18AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox > > shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to > > go. What I was missing, and desperately wanted, was some kind of text > > editor. I ended up have to do some funky 'cat'ing of files and text > > input to tweak an encryption-key script. Not fun without an editor, > > but you sure can do it... > > > > You mean that the busybox doesn't have any editor at all? The busybox > package (not necessarily the same as the initrd version) has vi and ed. > No ed in the initrd? I didn't look real hard, but I did look. I thought of ed, but maybe I just didn't see it. I can induce a "waiting for root" situation easily on my laptop... I'll confirm it. A
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