Complete chroot environment?

[Les Mikesell]

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.

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   Les Mikesell
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