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

[Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <devotion97@gmail.com>]

okay i got until the chroot /tmp part.
now i run grub-install /dev/hda and it starts probing bios devices and
never finishes...
is /dev/hda meaningful to a devfs system?
-- Fred

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:49:16 -0500, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
<devotion97@gmail.com> wrote:
> okay i got until the chroot /tmp part.
> now i run grub-install /dev/hda and it starts probing bios devices and
> never finishes...
> is /dev/hda meaningful to a devfs system?
> -- Fred
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:57:44 +0100, belahcene <belahcene@iap-cu.dz> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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> --
>     -- Fred
> 


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    -- Fred