Thanks your reply helped me a lot. That was exactly what I needed. It turns out there are important files in /dev/ that are not dynamically generated.
Thanks again, Andrew On 8/1/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Randles wrote: > > >Hi everyone I was hoping someone would have suggestion for me. > > > >My hard drive was going bad so I bought a new one and put it in. > >Instead of doing a complete reinstall I used dar and a usb harddrive > >to do a backup of the system. I then used a gentoo live cd (2004.2 or > >3) and to get everything setup and copied over. That worked well and > >up until I had to chroot in and take care of the grub setup. > > > >I keep getting glibc errors with "symbol erron" when I try to run > >env-update, ls or emerge commands. > > > >When I run grub root (hd0,0) it says no such drive or device. My > >/dev/ folder in the chrooted environment is empty. > > > >The system is a 2.6 kernel with 2.6 headers. I wonder if maybe I need > >an updated cd. > > > >Does anyone else have anymore ideas. > > > > > > A couple of more steps may be necessary before the chroot. Assuming > that your root is mounted on /mnt/root: > > cd /mnt/root > mount --bind /dev dev > mount --bind /proc proc > mount --bind /sys sys > chroot ./ ./bin/bash > mount -a # only if /boot is a separate filesystem > grub-install /dev/hda > umount -a # only if /boot is a separate filesystem > exit > umount dev > umount proc > umount sys > cd .. > umount root > > HTH, > > -Richard > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
