On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 16:24 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Personally I've been bind mounting /dev, /proc and /sys for years > whenever doing any rescuecd etc. stuff. Partly because I have several > LVM volumes where a static /dev/ wouldn't help anyway... > > But bind mounting /dev has just been part of my chroot routine for as > long as I remember.
Knowing about this would have saved me several days after trying to install the mageia beta (I now have it running with the 3.6.5-tmb-desktop-3.mga3 kernel as the 3.8 one is broken without a fix to the recursive panic problem, which is fixed upstream). It's not obvious to people who don't do it often :-) Why not add a command to the rescue disk, bind-mount dir - mount /dev, /proc and /sys as /dir/dev etc for chroot Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml