Error when trying to use adb shell in recovery mode I have a Chinese phone which I've been unable to install ClockworkMod on. I decided to try booting into recovery mode to manually backup/restore the system partition.

However, if I plug my phone into my PC while it's in recovery mode and issue the command 

adb shell


it says: 

exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)


I can only do very limited tasks, like adb ls / to see the filesystem, but nothing else.

How can I get adb shell working in recovery mode?
In mounts and storage, mount /system.