Re: how to install grub to non-bootable RAID-formatted drive?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Copy/dev/ to/tmp/RFS/dev/
>
> so is the actual command:
>   cp -r /dev/ /tmp/RFS/dev/
>
> If I try without the -r I get the error/warning message:
>   cp: -r not specified; omitting directory /dev/

AFAIK nowadays `/dev` is normally stored in another filesyste,
dynamically populated.  So you don't want to copy it to your
root filesystem.
Instead you want to "make it appear" there.
The way I do that, usually is with:

    mount --bind /dev /tmp/RFS/dev

I usually use that same approach to populate the `/proc` and `/sys`
directories before doing the `chroot`.


= Stefan