Hi Israel, It works for me. But you have changed things. I use chroot in OBI-9w but not in the standard OBI. Maybe you can find the solution in this link
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing Best regards Nio Den 2014-09-24 23:04, Israel skrev: > Hi Nio, > So the only thing it doesn't do is mount the newly installed OS as a chroot > (along with the nessicary dev, sys, and proc directories) and update-grub. > I ask this, because the chroot I made to work on the installed OS > doesn't populate the /boot/grub folder. > When I tried to install the tarball, it wouldn't boot. However I > 'rebooted' the ISO and fixed grub, and can now boot into the new install. > I think it would be useful to be able to update-grub on the installed > system through OBI, for an instance like this. > Mainly because I don't need 2 computers to build an OS, and can reuse > the same debs for building both. (I cache them when I build the OS) > And I can easily test the OS, and tweak it. Then I can rebuild a > pristine version with the fixes. > > On 09/24/2014 08:46 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: >> Den 2014-09-24 15:06, Israel skrev: >>> Hi, I made a tarball in a chroot. >>> The only issue with using this tarball, is that the /boot/grub directory >>> has nothing in it. >>> After installing and repairing grub, I have booted into it. >>> >>> Nio, does OBI installer not run this? >>> grub-install /dev/sda >>> >>> To fix grub I did it in chroot >>> mount everything we need >>> >>> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt >>> mount /dev /mnt/dev >>> mount /sys /mnt/sys >>> mount /proc /mnt/proc >>> >>> After this is done you can chroot into the install >>> >>> chroot /mnt >>> >>> update-grub >>> exit >>> umount /mnt/dev >>> umount /mnt/sys >>> umount /mnt/proc >>> umount /mnt >>> >>> bootable system. >>> >>> Anyhow building the tar from a chroot is a fast way to prototype the >>> base install, and recover from any mistakes. I can tweak it in a VM, >>> and find better solutions, and simply rebuild the tarball again. >>> >>> Is it worth implementing the grub fixer/installer for chroot tarballs Nio? >>> >> Yes Israel, >> >> In my OBI-9w >> >> $ grep grub-install mk* >> mkp1:"$startdir"/grub-installer "$device" >> mkp2p1:"$startdir"/grub-installer "$device" >> mkpxpy:"$startdir"/grub-installer "$target" >> >> and grub-installer is an own batch file containing what you ask for >> >> $ grep grub-install grub-installer >> grub-install --boot-directory=/boot "$device" >> >> >> In the standard OBI (where you got your obi-patch from) >> >> $ grep grub-install mk* >> mkp1:grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot "$device" >> mkp2p1:grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot "$device" >> mkpxpy:grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot "$target" >> >> Best regards >> Nio > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
