Steve Litt on 12 Oct 2017 10:04:16 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] create a boot record without use of chroot?


On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:35:03 -0400
JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:

> There are 2 things that help out the whole `chroot` thing and this
> process.
> 
> One is simple, create your mounts the way you need them, then mount
> them that way.  The second is "bind mounts" (kinda like a symlink for
> a mount).  So if you have sda1 as /boot/ and sda2 as / then as root:
> 	cd /mnt
> 	mkdir -p recover/boot
> 	mount /dev/sda2 recover
> 	mount /dev/sda1 recover/boot
> 	mount -o bind /dev /mnt/recover/dev
> 	mount -t proc none /mnt/recover/proc
> 	chroot recover

Very, very nice! I'm saving this for future reference.

Shouldn't the final line be "chroot recover /bin/sh" ?   

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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