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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Hard to re-install grub from rescue mode | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2 | Reporter: | Aaron Mulder <ammulder> |
| Component: | Installation | Assignee: | E-mail List <bnc-team-screening> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Jiri Srain <jsrain> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | ||
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Other | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | Other | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 225603 *** |
Due to a different bug, I needed to re-install grub on a system that just finished the first phase (software installation) of the 10.2 install. I booted from the install CD and selected rescue mode. It booted into rescue mode. On this machine, the hard drive is /dev/hdc and the root partition is /dev/hdc2. I tried the following: mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt chroot /mnt grub-install /dev/hdc This failed with an error like "/dev/hdc: no such device". Indeed, the /dev partition was virtually empty. It was not obvious how to fix that ("mount /dev" did not work). I tried exiting the chroot and running grub-install /dev/hdc from there, and it failed saying something like "/boot/grub is read-only". I finally got this to working by noting all the details on /dev/hdc through /dec/hdc3 in the rescue environment, running the chroot, running all the right mknod commands, and then running grub-install. This was really irritating -- as of SuSE 9.x and maybe even 10.0 it was not necessary to run mknod commands to re-install grub this way -- the /dev area of the chroot environment was populated enough, I guess. Any advice? (I would guess re-installing the boot loader was a pretty common use of rescue mode.)