Re: installing a kernel on other than the current partition

2010-09-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: So I want to install a Debian kernel on that unbootable partition. But how to install a kernel on a partition that is not booted? With chroot? Is that ever done? I've done it with chroot a few times. Should work gener

Re: installing a kernel on other than the current partition

2010-09-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: So I want to install a Debian kernel on that unbootable partition. But how to install a kernel on a partition that is not booted? With chroot? Is that ever done? I've done it with chroot a few times. Should work generally just fine. If you

Re: installing a kernel on other than the current partition

2010-09-22 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > So I want to install a Debian kernel on that unbootable partition. But > how to install a kernel on a partition that is not booted? With > chroot? Is that ever done? I've done it with chroot a few times. Should work generally just fine. If you are really desperate, boot

installing a kernel on other than the current partition

2010-09-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I may be all wet on this, but anyway: I have an exterior disk attached to my laptop from another system. On that disk I booted successfully a partition that has Debian kernel 2.6.32 installed on it. But I want to boot yet another partition that has my homegrown kernel on it. It won't bo