Re: installing a kernel on other than the current partition

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> > 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.

That was surprisingly easy!

I put linux-base_2.6.32-23_all.deb and 
linux-image-2.6.32-5-686_2.6.32-23_i386.deb in the root directory of the 
partition in question and then chrooted into it.

Then I dpkg -i linux-base_2.6.32-23_all.deb and dpkg -i 
linux-image-2.6.32-5-686_2.6.32-23_i386.deb.

They installed without a hitch and I was able to boot the partition!

Hugo