[mdlug] Flakey hard drive

Carl T. Miller millerc at cantonpl.org
Mon Aug 20 09:19:36 EDT 2007


R. Kannan wrote:
> Nevermind. I cheated the system by copying the new mtab from /etc to
> /<new_root_dir/etc/mtab and could get grub-install to update the MBR.

Thanks for posting this.  I'll update my own notes about
how to reinstall grub.  I've gone through this process
twice and didn't need to copy the running mtab to the
old filesystem.  Not sure why you needed to do this, since
you were in a chrooted environment.

c





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