Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (331 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2007/04/09 14:18 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. apparently typed:

> 2007-04-08 at 20:47 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

> > I then tried to mount and chroot to it
> > in order to run grub-install. Grub-install failed due to the non-existent
> > target device. 

> It could be because the /mnt/dev tree is not populated.

> > Copying the hda19 device file from the 10.1 / and trying
> > again didn't help.

> Ah, so you saw that. The trick is this, before chrooting:

> mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
> mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
> mount -o bind /dev /proc/dev

> and then, chroot (as posted here by Anders Johansson about a month ago).

The man page for mkinitrd is now rather different:

1-mount root device on /mnt
2-mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
3-chroot /mnt
4-mount /proc
5-mount /sys
6-mkinitrd

When I try it this way, I get a lot of Constant & Prototype error messages
from line 66 of Exporter.pm.
-- 
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
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