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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom
From:       Pascal Cavy <pascal () vmfacility ! fr>
Date:       2003-04-02 10:35:40
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Le Mercredi 2 Avril 2003 12:21, Neil Bothwick a écrit :
> Guillaume Cottenceau said,
>
> >> I tried the following but to no avail (maybe because of using the
> >> freshly installed system by means of a chroot on /mnt) :
> >>
> >> boot rescue cd1
> >> mount all FS on /mnt
> >> go to console
> >> chroot /mnt
> >>
> >> First I was to mount /proc  because mkinitrd _does not check_ that /proc
> >> is available and thus we end in a loop at the step it scans for
> >> /proc/mounts FS.
> >
> > I don't consider that to be a bug. Many (all?) of our system
> > tools rely very much on /proc being available. I'm not even sure
> > the system will boot without a /proc filesystem mounted.
>
> Isn't the problem that /proc disappears when you chroot to /mnt? Could
> you solve this doing "mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc" when mounting
> filesystems on /mnt, then /proc is still available after chrooting.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Neil

If this is true, then that was my problem on rescue mode. And that is why, 
Guillaume,  an new rescue menu entry to rebuild a kernel initrd would be a 
plus in case someone has destroyed or corrupted it. (nothing to do with mdk 
installation here, just a new recovery tool)

-- 
Pascal Cavy - VMF
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