On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 20:48 +0100, AL13N wrote: > Op woensdag 16 januari 2013 11:30:27 schreef Liam R E Quin:
> > Why not add a command to the rescue disk, > > bind-mount dir - mount /dev, /proc and /sys as /dir/dev etc for chroot > because in fact, it's not really the correct solution (and there's multiple > solutions for this too) Then add some documentation about how to use the mounted partitions with chroot. > oh well, rescuing is for advanced users, so i don't really see the need here. > rescue should be as small as possible anyway. Let's not be dismissive of people. If we felt that way, we'd tell everyone to use NetBSD :-) Why is there something to install drivers when an advanced user can look at the boot log and use modprobe? Heck, I've seen a live Unix (V7? BSD 4.1? I forget) kernel patched by editing /dev/mem. Since people sometimes do need to use chroot, it's an opportunity to improve the rescue disk. > i have no clue how you'd be successfull without binding; i didn't think disk > devices were statically made anyway, at least not sdX. I wasn't successful without binding, although there are other ways to get access to sdX devices in the chroot'd partition. 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
