Lilo Help
Andrew W. Gaunt
quantum at lucent.com
Wed Jun 23 06:18:01 EDT 2004
These steps form the 'Gentoo' install procedure might help
when using chroot to to such things. I believe running lilo
without a /proc will cause it to at least whine...
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mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:18, Mansur, Warren wrote:
>
>
>>
>>- Open a terminal
>>- Go to the directory that contains your original mounted hard drive
>>- executed 'chroot' so that now your hard drive looks like '/' instead
>>
>
>Ah, yes... chroot. I knew I was forgetting something. Thanks, Warren! It
>has been so long since I hosed up Lilo....
>
>
>But, as a side note to anyone that may encounter this, it does not work
>from Knoppix. I chrooted /mnt/hda4 (my root drive), and made sure
>everything is as it should be. It was. I tried to run lilo, and I got
>errors about "open /dev/hda: permission denied". I made sure I was root,
>I made sure everything had correct permissions. I was, and everything
>did. I tried a few other things, and I got permission denied errors on
>/dev/null, too. Apparently, no matter what you do, Knoppix just won't
>let you work with files in /dev. I even changed the permissions to a+rwx
>on a few things (that it let me do), and I still couldn't run lilo or
>write to /dev/null. So, I used a Debian install/rescue disk, did
>everything exactly the same, and it worked fine. Things that make you go
>WTF?!?!?!?!
>
>Thanks,
>Kenny
>
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