I normally use a live CD for this sort of thing... in that case you don't need to cheroot at all. Just make sure your <rootmountpoint>/boot/grub/device.map is correct and do grub-install --root-directory=<rootmountpoint> /dev/sda (assuming you want the mbr on sda)
James
On 3 Aug 2010 18:21, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
>> On 8/3/2010 11:13 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> On 8/3/2010 9:56 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am at the shell prompt but in order to get grub to work, don't I need
>>>> to mount my actual boot and root partitions for grub to know that
>>>> (hd0,9) refers a valid boot partition when I tell grub:
>>>>
>>>> root (hd0,9)
>>>> setup (hd0,9)
>>>
>>> No, grub doesn't need to have anything mounted.
>>
>> OK, thanks for the info.
>>
>>> The sysimage mount and
>>> chroot is most useful to get access to your usual tools in their usual
>>> paths and to be able to edit the grub.conf file. I've never tried to
>>> boot from a partition that far into the disk, though. I had enough
>>> trouble back in the days when bios only knew 1024 cylinders that I've
>>> always put a small /boot partition as the first thing on the disk even
>>> though you shouldn't have to now.
>>
>> My problem was that once I did a chroot I did not have any /dev devices.
>> Evidently grub does use this. Once I did:
>>
>> mount --bind /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev
>>
>> before doing:
>>
>> chroot /mnt/sysimage
>>
>> when I executed 'grub' it found the (hd0,9) partition.
>
> "Executed grub"? Not chroot, then grub-install /dev/sda?
> <snip>
> mark
>
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