On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:34:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > This is not debian specific, but I foresee that I might need to do this > in my Debian Etch one of these days. > > I use a common /boot for dual booting between Debian Etch and FC4. > Recently I re-installed Debian Etch and overwrote everything in /boot. > If I want to boot into FC4 now, how do I go about reconstructing the > files in /boot for that distribution? > > This is not the same as recovering lost grub, is it? In this case, I > have lost vmlinux* files that were the FC4 kernels. > > It is not utterly important to reconstruct files in /boot FC4, but I am > taking this as an exercise so that I get some experience in this > problem. This would be usefule even if I lost files for my Debian Etch I > guess. > Boot a liveCD like Knoppix, download the packages for the kernels you are running in FC4, mount the partitions onto /mnt in such a way that everything below mount is how it would appear after you have booted into FC4, chroot into /mnt and then install the packages you just downloaded.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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