Re: grub-install in chroot

2007/10/20, Shane Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > yeh, if you did a full debootstrap as root you should have /dev/ files > in your chroot. If you are root when you enter a chroot then you > should be able to run grub-install from within the chroot. > As far as I remember, I used root to run debo

Re: grub-install in chroot

2007/10/18, Shane Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can you link to the direct documentation you are using for bootstrapping > debian? > Yes, sure, it's the same link I've used in the first email: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en Thanks, Igor -- :wq

Re: grub-install in chroot

Hello, 2007/10/17, Shane Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ah.. > > grub-install isn't really needed, make sure the package is installed > in the chroot environment. chroot in and make sure /boot/grub exists. > > The rest should work a little like this: > > cp -a /usr/lib/grub/x86(or whatever arch

Re: grub-install in chroot

2007/10/17, Shane Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: But there is no need to boot a chroot debian root. I'm afraid you missed the point in my mail. As the title of the manual page says, it is for "Installing Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System". I did this not because of vserver or any other v

grub-install in chroot

Hello, I've been following the instructions on installing a Debian GNU/Linux system [1] and found an issue that was not completely covered: I could not run grub-install in chroot because there are no /dev/hdX special files. So the command to be ran in chroot grub-install /dev/hda should be run a