Re: RE: using debian sarge installation cd as a rescue disk

[belahcene <belahcene@iap-cu.dz>]

hi,
I did this and it worked:
I use the first CD ( or netinstaller same thing), at the begining of 
installation ( when the partitions are loaded) switch to the shell 
command ctrl+alt+F2 for example, the installer doesn't use fdisk but 
parted, so the name of partition are different, you haven't /dev/hda1, 
/dev/hda2 ...;; instead there is :
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/lun0/disc   for the disk  and   replace  disc  with 
part1,  part2  for partition.... I have an ide disk,  you run parted and 
see the name of your disk


mount  your root  partition ( say it  /dev/myroot ) on directory ( say 
/mydir) and chroot:
mount                /dev/ide/host0/bus0/lun0/part2           /tmp
chroot  /tmp
and now you can run any command on your original system,  so do,  
grub-install   /dev/hda , that 's  all

best regards
bela