On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Ron Stodden wrote:
> As user root:
> Any attempt to chroot from one 7.2beta partition to another
> (mounted), say,
> chroot /mnt/c8 ls
> always leads to 'Permission denied'.
> Any attempt to chroot from a Mandrake 7.1 partition to a 7.2beta
> partition (mounted), say,
> chroot /mnt/c8 ls
> always leads to 'Permission denied'.
>
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> This seems to me a very severe error, because it precludes partition
> rescue operations.
>
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> However, using tomsbtrt 1.7.208 from floppy, all attempts to chroot
> to a mounted 7.2beta partition are successful.
[00:20 peter@penguin:~]$ su -c "chroot /mnt/beta ls"
Password:
bak bin boot dev etc home lib misc mnt net opt proc root sbin tmp usr
var win
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