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[bugs #8539] Latest Modifications:
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Yoshinori K. Okuji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Wed 04/21/04 at 11:13 (GMT)
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Copying /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab suffices. Don't you agree?
Okuji
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[bugs #8539] Full Item Snapshot:
URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=8539>
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: 0
On: Sun 04/11/04 at 12:13
Category: Installation
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Feature Request
Resolution: Works for me
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Sven Vermeulen
Originator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status: Open
Release: 0.94
Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release:
Summary: Allow use of grub-install in chrooted environment
Original Submission: Is it possible to allow grub-install to be used inside a
chrooted environment? The main issue here is that grub-install requires a correct
/etc/mtab which, in a chrooted environment, isn't 100% accurate.
A possibility would be to have a --root-device=/dev/hda1 option (instead or
supplementary to --root-directory). This way there is no need for querying /etc/mtab
and can grub-install be safely used in a chrooted environment.
Follow-up Comments
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Date: Wed 04/21/04 at 11:13 By: okuji
Copying /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab suffices. Don't you agree?
Okuji
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Date: Sun 04/18/04 at 12:52 By: None
That's just how the installation for Gentoo itself is done, and I believe the same
goes for LFS. Without chroot, running grub-install fails because it requires
/sbin/grub. Users are not able to symlink /mnt/gentoo/sbin/grub to /sbin/grub as "/"
is read-only (LiveCD) (and I don't know if this'll work anyway).
When writing my own /etc/mtab with a correct line for the /boot partition, running
grub-install from within the chroot works. That's why I think it would be most
beneficial to add this feature to grub-install so that others can use this too. Afaik,
but this is of course an outsiders opinion, this doesn't affect the functionality of
grub-install at all for the existing users.
My main motivation for having this as a feature request instead of just implementing a
work-around for Gentoo is because I believe this feature can be used by others as well.
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Date: Mon 04/12/04 at 17:58 By: okuji
You haven't answered my question: why do you need to chroot?
Okuji
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