Jack Byers wrote:
Tom Horsley wrote I've been experimenting with chroot to switch to an alternate root partition and "do stuff" without actually having to reboot to that alternate OS.
I'd like the answer for a slightly different scenario too. If you boot the install disk in rescue mode and the system is able to detect your installed drives and mount them for you, it will also populate /dev. However, if the reason you needed the rescue boot was that /etc/fstab doesn't match the current layout or something similar that prevents automatic mounting, it doesn't work. You may be able to manually mount the correct partitions, but you can't chroot there without whatever this missing step is that sets up the /dev entries in udev based systems.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
