Re: installing a kernel on other than the current partition

To: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: installing a kernel on other than the current partition
From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:28:58 +0300
Message-id: <[🔎] 84vd5xzqr9.fsf@sauna.l.org>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] i7d7v1$3ka$1@dough.gmane.org> (Hugo Vanwoerkom's message of "Wed\, 22 Sep 2010 10\:39\:10 -0500")
References: <[🔎] i7d7v1$3ka$1@dough.gmane.org>

Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> writes:
> So I want to install a Debian kernel on that unbootable partition. But
> how to install a kernel on a partition that is not booted? With
> chroot? Is that ever done?

I've done it with chroot a few times. Should work generally just fine.

If you are really desperate, boot it with qemu and install the package
there.

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