Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday, 2010-01-18 at 17:05 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote:

> 2010. január 18. 16:15 napon Tejas Guruswamy <> írta:

> > On 18/01/10 14:52, Istvan Gabor wrote:
> > > Yes,  I tried it. I have two problems with this solution:
> > >
> > > 1. I don't know how to make an initrd image to the system if it is not running.
> > > Do you know how to create initrd image for a system which is not running?
> > Boot off a rescue system, chroot into the drive, mkinitrd should work.
>
> I have tried it, not from the rescue disk but from within another running 
> system, and I could not manage it.
> It gave some error messages which I can't recall.
> Could you please give step by step instructions? It would be very helpful. Or 
> any link to a howto.

More or less:

mount /target_partition.
mount --bind /proc /target_partition/proc
mount --bind /sys /target_partition/sys
mount --bind /dev /target_partition/dev
chroot /target_partition

You might have to edit /target_partition/etc/mtab.

Then, run mkinitrd whatever.

Remember that those directories (proc, sys, dev) in the target should be 
empty before the binding.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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