Guillaume Cottenceau said, >> I tried the following but to no avail (maybe because of using the freshly >> installed system by means of a chroot on /mnt) : >> >> boot rescue cd1 >> mount all FS on /mnt >> go to console >> chroot /mnt >> >> First I was to mount /proc because mkinitrd _does not check_ that /proc is >> available and thus we end in a loop at the step it scans for /proc/mounts >> FS.
> I don't consider that to be a bug. Many (all?) of our system > tools rely very much on /proc being available. I'm not even sure > the system will boot without a /proc filesystem mounted. Isn't the problem that /proc disappears when you chroot to /mnt? Could you solve this doing "mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc" when mounting filesystems on /mnt, then /proc is still available after chrooting. Cheers Neil -- She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful laying down.
