Lanny Marcus wrote:
Booting from the CentOS 5.2 Installation DVD (or the first
Installation CD), one can type "linux rescue" and then "chroot
/mnt/sysimage" and have full root access to the OS on the HD. For
future reference, I would like to know what I did wrong, the past
couple of days, when trying to use the CentOS 5.2 i386 Live CD, for
rescue. From a terminal, "su -" did not seem to get me root access to
the hard drive. What command should I have used, with the Live CD? The
access I had was read only. (As it turns out, I could have fixed the
problem, without the LiveCD, but I didn't know that, 3 days ago....
:-) ) TIA. Lanny
Referring to one of your earlier posts,
[centos@localhost ~]$ mount
/dev/mapper/livecd-rw on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/dev/hdc on /mnt/live type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/hda2 on /mnt/disc/hda2 type ext3 (ro)
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on /mnt/lvm/VolGroup00-LogVol00 type ext3 (ro)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
the boot partition, /dev/hda2 was mounted Read-Only (ro).
To work around that little problem, simply:
# mount /dev/hda2 -o rw,remount
which remounts the partition Read-Write so you can work with it instead
of only observe.
Now, I believe the Live CD is missing the chroot command. This means
you have to do the "bookkeeping" manually. The grub.conf file (normally
at /boot/grub/grub.conf) will now appear at
/mnt/disc/hda2/grub/grub.conf. Note that there is no "/boot" in that path.
And yes, the farther you are from the monitor, the clearer it all becomes.
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