Dave Plater wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2008-10-05 at 13:25 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
I just booted using opensuse 11.0 dvd rescue system and kexec. I used the mount root at /mnt, mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc, mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys, mounr --bind /dev /mnt/dev and chroot /mnt /bin/bash --login. The next step is simple:- kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz --append=root=[your root] --initrd=/boot/initrd to load the kernel into memory then kexec -e starts the kernel.
Interesting. But kexec is not installed by default, I don't have it.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
I found a better way using kexec in the dvd installation system. Boot into rescue system, init 1 (you must go to single user mode otherwise you will boot with the dvd's drivers) mount your root at /mnt then kexec -l --command-line=root=/dev/yourroot --initrd=/mnt/boot/initrd /mnt/boot/vmlinuz then kexec -e You could probably do this from any console in the installation system, for instance after system repair. Regards Dave P
Thanks to all who replied. This I got from alt.linux.suse: "If anything fails, give SuperGrubDisk a chance" www.supergrubdisk.org It worked fine, I booted suse 11.0 and was able to install grub in the MBR. jozien -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org