On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 09:38:44AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Monday 21 Apr 2014 00:55:56 yac wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:54:07 +0100 > > Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > > The installation handbook used to include a command to > > > write /etc/mtab in the chroot by grepping the host mtab > > > > It was part of grub-install, now grub legacy > > > > https://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc > > _chap4 > > Yes, thanks, a couple of people posted what it says here the other > day. Now I'm puzzling over whether it's good advice. > > For instance, suppose I want to reinstall the chroot in which I keep > an image of my Atom box here on my workstation. Then /etc/mtab has: > /dev/md5 / [...] > but once I chroot into /mnt/atom, where the image lives, that's wrong and > should be: > /dev/mapper/vg7-atom / [...] > because vg7-atom is now the root of the file system. > > Does the handbook need an update? Or maybe it's right after all > because when grub runs its installer it's unconcerned with where > it's invoked from. > > [Wanders off stage-left, muttering and scratching his head...]
*AFTER YOU CHROOT* what are the contents of /proc/self/mounts and /proc/mounts ? Can you copy either of them into /etc/mtab and have the correct result? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
