What other improvements can be added to rescue mode to provide user-friendly common resuce options? 1- grub-install 2- ?
On 3/22/07, Tony Nelson tonynelson@georgeanelson.com wrote:
At 6:12 AM -0400 3/21/07, Neal Becker wrote:
Leszek Matok wrote:
Dnia 20-03-2007, wto o godzinie 07:10 -0700, John Reiser napisa?(a):
Why don't you install grub on the broken system and boot it?
Because rescue mode cannot install grub via grub-install; reported as: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198064 The mechanism that grub-install uses to identify the "hardware" is incompatible with the "virtualization" provided by chroot and rescue mode.
But it works with grub-install --root-directory, at least in F6 (fully updated F6 and rescue mode from the original install CD - tested yesterday). The chroot has problems related to mtab, which can be
faked,
but --root-directory was simpler and it works.
And for the original poster: you can make a boot floppy for your
system.
I don't remember if Anaconda still has an option for it, though.
Lam
My immediate need is this. I have a system with a pair of scsi
disks. It
also has 1 SATA drive. For some reason I can't understand, the SATA
drive
is not seen by the BIOS, so I can't boot off it, but Fedora has no
trouble
understanding that it's there and is happy to install /boot onto it. Of course, I have no way to boot it.
I haven't tried to make a boot floppy in years. Any hints?
Probably just put the grub bootsector into a file on the floppy, similar to booting through NTLDR. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com ' http://www.georgeanelson.com/
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