On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> writes: > > > What I would do is put a live system on a USB flash drive (System Rescue > > CD is what I usually use) and mount the unbootable hard drive from > > within the live system. At that point you could wget a kernel deb from > > http://ftp.uk.debian.org onto your old mounted hard drive. chroot into > > your drive's mount point, dpkg -i linux-image-*, and you're done; your > > system should now be bootable. > > Thanks, I suspected that that would be a reasonable plan, and I've just > checked that this doesn't seem to require upgrades to user space. > > Now one thing about my system is that mounting /usr will be a bit > awkward, since it is lvm over several raid 5 devices. Can anyone think > of a way to install a kernel .deb without having /usr mounted? If I > just unpack it with dpkg-deb, copy the kernel, initrd and modules dir > to the right place, and update grub, will that be enough?? > > Thanks, > > Dan > Run from a LiveCD and use dpkg with the --root option. Read dpkg(1) for more information. -- http://pobega.wordpress.com http://identica/pobega
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